PODCAST: AI vs. Meaning—Stephen Marche, Part 1

Listen now to THE GRAIN with Ronit Novak, as I continue my series of podcast probes into the pleasure and peril of AI and the future of creativity—recorded at Made Human Studios in the Little Jamaica neighbourhood of Toronto, Canada.

Links to some stuff we talk about…

* Death of an Author. Stephen Marche’s AI generated novella [Pushkin]Using ChatGPT and Cohere’s LLM models, this provocative literary work blends human creativity with AI-generated prose.

* We’re Witnessing the Birth of a New Artistic Medium [The Atlantic]While experimenting with negative weighted prompts, Swedish musician Supercomposite inadvertently created Loab, one of the most novel and disturbing AI generated images yet.

* Jenny Holzer: Light Line exhibition [Guggenheim New York]This landmark artist fragments and re-contextualizes text to create new meanings that bend space, history, and truth.

Stay tuned for AI vs Meaning with Stephen Marche Part 2, and for my grains of thought about literature and language in the newsletter.

Coming this month, a podcast roundup of newsmaker AI moments that impacted the creative industry in 2024, and what’s in store for 2025.

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