A New Kind Of Creative Poverty
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The Simplified Chinese Internet ran on reward and punishment. LLM training feels uncomfortably familiar.
Credits Afra Wang is a California-based writer and journalist who focuses on technological modernity through a humanistic lens, spanning China and Silicon Valley in the global AI age. She writes concurrent.blog and is a frequent contributor to many outlets. Editor’s Note: Noema is transparent about AI use in its pieces. We publish original human-generated ideas but allow authorized, disclosed use of AI in certain cases. Please see details at the end of this piece. During a dark stretch of Covid, I dove into Joan Didion’s “The Year of Magical Thinking,” her book about processing her…
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