the post-literate society - by Jasmine Sun - @jasmine

chatbots & the oral culture revival

Dear reader, This is the handcrafted human version of the viral essay I wrote with AI. I won’t lie: it was slightly demoralizing to spend hours on a human draft that is in some ways worse than DeepSeek R1’s (and won’t get nearly the readership). Still, I enjoyed meditating on the virtues and perils of “chat” as an interface—and what that says about how we communicate today. Here are today’s provocations: The post-literate society How I use AI The oral culture revival, in tweets A full year before ChatGPT launched in November 2022, OpenAI released the GPT-3 API to little public fanfare.…

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