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McCluhan’s Four Laws are not real laws, but lenses to help us think about possible effects of new technology. New tech: 1. Extends something human 2. Makes a previous tech into sport or art 3. Brings back a previous tech 4. Becomes its opposite when pushed https://t.co/7X72oYLY7u https://t.co/zHlSjHWryt
So, to be provocative about creative AI, McCluhan might say it: 1. Extends the human mind and human creativity 2. Makes professional writing a sport or art 3. Brings back spell casting👇 4. Makes us less creative & able when pushed too far
Let us admit that machine vision is taking us more towards a fantasy, not SciFi, future: 🔮It can be evoked by a secret language https://t.co/G05d7r8Pm0 ⚪️It can be bound by runes of salt https://t.co/ShCm2N8LyD 🪄Glyphs can be used to blind or confuse it https://t.co/rPkCqs2MWA https://t.co/susxoxgAaR
