Ted Gioia
I'm author of 12 books on music & culture. The best place to follow my work is Substack, where I'm the "Honest Broker" (https://t.co/F6G8RrzTIu).
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3 days ago |
honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia
A growing number of tech users now believe that AI is God. They think they are accessing “the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT,” warned journalist Mike Lee last month. Do you think this is a tiny fringe of lunatics? No, not in the least. Just five days ago, the moderator of a pro-AI Reddit announced that they are now banning these fanatics—more than a hundred have already been blocked. They didn’t have a choice.
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5 days ago |
honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia
If I do a search for beauty online, where does Google send me? Does it bring me to Michelangelo? Will it serve up the Taj Mahal or the Parthenon? Does it showcase a painting by Van Gogh or a nocturne by Chopin? Nope. None of the above. If I’m on a quest for beauty, Google will send me to a hair stylist or maybe a dermatologist. Those folks own beauty nowadays—not the artists. And certainly not the critics.
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1 week ago |
honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia
Everything happens so quickly at Substack. And in just the last few days, something big has changed. By my measure, we’ve suddenly reached stage four in the evolution of this platform. And I expect we will quickly get to level five (more on that below). But first let’s look at how we got here. In the first stage, people ignored us. That was easy enough—Substack was small and out on the very fringes of the media world. When I told people I published a Substack, I got blank stares.
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1 week ago |
honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia
The level of AI cheating has reached such an extreme that many fear we’ve reached a point of no return. “Everyone is cheating their way through college,” New York magazine recently announced. “ChatGPT has unraveled the entire academic project.” The Wall Street Journal has reached a similar conclusion: “There’s a good chance your kid uses AI to cheat,” declared a recent article.
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1 week ago |
honest-broker.com | Ted Gioia
Around the year 250, people in the Roman Empire started building walls. And it happened everywhere. What was going on? Not long before, cities had spread over open territory. People could enter or leave easily. They felt safe. But now, over the course of just a few years, everything changed. “By the end of the third century every sizeable city within the empire had acquired a wall,” explains historian Adrian Goldsworthy. “Almost all were very thick,” he adds. This happened even in Rome itself.
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