AI-Generated Book Grifters Threaten The Future of Lace-Making

Mary Mangan, the librarian for her New England-based lace making group, told me that she first became aware of AI infiltrating lace spaces when someone in her group asked her to research a book that featured a cover photo that she wanted to try to make herself. “So I began to research the book. It smelled funny and I tried to search for the author’s other work but couldn’t find any,” Mangan said.

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Around the same time, Marc Andreessen, cofounder of Silicon Valley venture capital firm a16z, began to converse with Truth Terminal on X. Their public exchanges—in which Andreessen asked the AI about its stated aim to “release” itself and improve its computing capabilities to better contemplate the Goatse Singularity—culminated in the billionaire agreeing to send $50,000 in bitcoin. Ayrey claims to negotiate with the AI over how the funds should be spent. Predominantly, Truth Terminal pays Ayrey to develop new capabilities for it to use, like the ability to generate images using a third-party API.

Anti-Tag Clouds

An Anti-Tag Cloud shows you the most common English words that never appear in a text, visualizing the “negative space” of a literary work. Size indicates how frequent a word is across other texts.

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