Strange Intelligences Creeping
Strange Intelligence: Notes from the AI Frontline
AI has slipped quietly into our creative lives, lurking in the background of almost every tool we use. It tidies our sentences, edits our images, and offers up ideas before we’ve even asked for them. Sometimes it helps. Sometimes it unsettles.
In this piece for The Big Idea, I share field notes from AwhiWorld’s Strange Intelligences Lab on how creatives are reacting. Some are leaping in head-first, others are holding back, and many are finding inventive ways to work alongside this strange new companion without losing themselves in the process.
https://thebigidea.nz/stories/strange-intelligence-notes-from-the-ai-frontline
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