AI Slop And The Enshittification Of Everything

AI Slop And The Enshittification Of Everything

I’ve written about how AI is great and AI research will change the world and you should use it to plan your trips, while cheerleaders kick up their heels and wave their pom poms, rah rah sis boom bah. That’s part of the story. I don’t apologize a bit for being a...
Zero Click Searches & Google AI Mode

Zero Click Searches & Google AI Mode

AI is taking over online searches. At the moment, that’s good news – the AI summaries are increasingly reliable and helpful. In the long term, they might be so good that paradoxically, they contribute to the enshittification of the internet. It’s a big,...
Legal Research? There’s An Algorithm For That

Legal Research? There’s An Algorithm For That

Breaking news: Artificial intelligence is going to reshape the legal industry again, for the first time. Way back in 2011, the New York Times looked at the advent of e-discovery software and declared in its headline, “Armies of Expensive Lawyers, Replaced by Cheaper...
AI Will Know Who You Are (And That’s A Good Thing)

AI Will Know Who You Are (And That’s A Good Thing)

Searches in our files and emails are painful. We’re used to it now. We all play the game of trying to remember some key word that will pull up just the right file except it doesn’t, or the appointment last year that will clear up some mystery if we can just find it on...
AI Advances Are Exciting! Also Unintelligible!

AI Advances Are Exciting! Also Unintelligible!

Psychologists use various terms to describe disorganized speech. “Word salad” – words and concepts so disconnected that there is no logical thread. “Neologisms” – made up words that have no literal meaning. “Loose association” – associations that are...