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Quote: I started feeling very boring by the end of the week. I just felt like all of my decisions were so basic and so average. I had it decide my haircut and it chose...a really basic haircut. AI hated all my clothes, and it told me to go to J Crew and buy a tank top and these big jeans....My stylish colleagues here at The Times were just like, you look like you bought the mannequin set. It was very flattening and the kind of overall effect was that it turned me into a basic b****.< Kashmir Hill on outsourcing her life to AI

“AI made me basic”

AI, Digital Curation, Jon, New Media, Still Water / jon / November 13, 2024

When a tech reporter for the NY Times outsourced her decisions for a week to ChatGPT, she complained that “AI made me basic.” But it turns out the math behind generative AI can lead to results that are blandly average or wildly inaccurate.

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Uphill is the new downhill: Still Water commutes by ebike

1 Comment / EcoVillage, Joline, LongGreenHouse, Still Water / jon / August 17, 2011

Still Water co-director Joline Blais trades a 45-minute car commute for an hour and a quarter on an electric bike.

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