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A young couple on a bicycle hide from Chinese soldiers in a tank overhead during the Tiananmen Square protests that were crushed June 4, 1989. Liu Heung Shing Street Photographers Foundation

A HUGE congratulations to T.R. Napper (T. R. Napper) on his Aurealis Award win for GHOST OF THE NEON GOD as Best Science Fiction Novella! So well deserved 🧡🩷

"Using ChatGPT to complete tasks is like taking a forklift to the gym: you'll never improve your cognitive abilities that way." - Ted Chiang

It's fairly obvious that OpenAI wants ChatGPT to break the education system, and that the long-term plan is to create a generation of people who can't read, write, or think for themselves and therefore have no choice but to use AI.

Ghost in the Shell (1995)

In Fahrenheit 451, the abolition of reading began with tech companies simplifying books into summaries that you could read in five minutes. Because people no longer engaged with the texts, they forgot how to think. Then came the book-burnings.

Ray Bradbury; this is how you rebuild an attention span

How are you a filmmaker or writer or creative endorsing AI? I’ll never be able to take your art seriously

bank robber in court: no your honor i was simply democratizing access to capital

Actually it makes us less human. Less independent, less imaginative, less creative, less capable of critical thought. The tech barons want us to be less, so we need their products more.

Reader by Simon Leclerc

©Zhang Daqian

As I've been saying, if you willingly relinquish your mental abilities, you will lose them. The fact that millions of people seem eager to give up their intellects, to be freed from the burden of ever having to think or create, is a nightmare out of our darkest science fictions.

A friend of mine caught her 7-year-old son reading 36 Streets. She quickly took it away. A few days later, he began writing a story (she sent it to me). First chapter title: 'neon lights in a subway alley'. It's about a detective who shoots people and occasionally yells, 'fuck!'