Caught Between

In an ever-changing, incomprehensible world the masses had reached the point where they would, at the same time, believe everything and nothing, think that everything was possible and that nothing was true…

That’s from The Origins of Totalitarianism, cited within The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess: Information Ecology about the somewhat less savory impacts of LLMs (and what people more generally call “AI”). It’s strange being caught in this in-between place, simultaneously loving what LLMs can facilitate for programming and creative work, while dreading their seemingly unstoppable effects on society at large.