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Neural Media

"All media are extensions of some human faculty — psychic or physical." ~Marshall McLuhanFor most of 2024, and especially since publishing my last essay, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time trying to make sense of what we now call “generative AI” and its implications for me personally and for society more broadly. Like many, I’ve been captivated by AI as a creative tool, and have found myself implementing many of these new products into my workflows, particularly for creative writing and m...

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Last year, I wrote an essay reflecting on my exploration of latent space as a creative medium, which sought to grapple with the existential question of how human craft and creativity fit into the age of Generative AI. One of the key insights that emerged from that journey was that the surface area for human design within these systems exists at the level of programmability, or put another way, within the process of training the model and/or architecting its underlying design. “This is essenti...

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"All media are extensions of some human faculty — psychic or physical." ~Marshall McLuhanFor most of 2024, and especially since publishing my last essay, I’ve been spending quite a bit of time trying to make sense of what we now call “generative AI” and its implications for me personally and for society more broadly. Like many, I’ve been captivated by AI as a creative tool, and have found myself implementing many of these new products into my workflows, particularly for creative writing and m...

Programmable Media

Over the past few months, I’ve been spending most of my time thinking about the future of media, and how crypto might fit into that pictu...

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