Rob Horning @robhorning
I was an editor for Real Life robhorning.substack.com New York City Joined September 2008-
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Makes me think of posting to social media as a way of trying to remember what it was like when we couldn’t
Makes me think of posting to social media as a way of trying to remember what it was like when we couldn’t
about eclipse photography robhorning.substack.com/p/images-of-un…
on Sora and the dopamine cartel robhorning.substack.com/p/a-photo-of-a…
'The advent of generative AI has helped us pretend that automated communication remains a future threat rather than an ordinary aspect of contemporary life and the full instrumentalisation of human relations.' @robhorning on reciprocal human investment. overland.org.au/2024/02/recipr…
here is my crucial intervention into the Vision Pro discourse robhorning.substack.com/p/looking-away seems great for people who would like to replace their eyes with Apple controlled cameras and would like everything they experience to "pass through" Apple's processors
new post about "anti_instagrams" and Spotify's spurious genres robhorning.substack.com/p/normal-sounds
this is about AI models as trying to address the longstanding "crisis of modernity" (hopefully not as dull as that sounds) robhorning.substack.com/p/empire-of-th…
on video essays, AI neoliberalism, perpetual postmodernism robhorning.substack.com/p/three-more-t…
The egg of experience open.substack.com/pub/robhorning…
i don't even know if links like this work on this site anymore but I wrote about Adam Phillips, The Band, "neuroforecasting" and "platform realism" robhorning.substack.com/p/the-preponde…
I wrote a book about adtech that takes place mostly before the 1990s. It shows how the advertising business became obsessed with optimization, automation, and data, and how that affected commercial media. Best of all, you can read it for free here: direct.mit.edu/books/oa-monog…
'Influencers show us what the sort of work that might resist automation looks like, even as that work remains fully managed by algorithms.' A brilliant new essay by @robhorning on authentic labour and the influencer industry. overland.org.au/2023/08/authen…
Science fiction undersold the extent to which AI would reveal the captive mind’s profound desire for an unassailable authority to tell them what to do.
Science fiction undersold the extent to which AI would reveal the captive mind’s profound desire for an unassailable authority to tell them what to do.
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Ryan Ruby @_ryanruby_
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Kyle Chayka @chaykak
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Do no other images of the 1974 Hegel Conference exist except for this one with the giant Hegel and where you can see Althusser
“Dopamine culture” is the new attention economy is the new surveillance capitalism in that they all claim to diagnose a present malaise and also in that i don’t believe in any of them
OpenAI's Sora is out! Creating video from text. Similar models from other tech companies will likely follow. There are COOL technical things and NOT COOL social things to know about. A super quick 🧵. 1/
Did anyone cave and pay for tweetdeck? If I'm not gonna, I can't imagine that many people will...
what's a "personal musician" x.com/vkhosla/status…
Music won’t require personal musicians in fifteen years and your favorite “artist” will be a personal algorithm, though you will still have your favorite generic public celebrity musicians
Hartley has always felt off-kilter, but the earliest stuff feels off-kilter in a satisfyingly Godardian (or Brechtian) kind of way, whereas the later stuff just kinda feels like it’s out of joint, not quite connecting with its targets.
Ok, yay, some me news that affects precisely none of you! But i'm excited. I've officially committed to writing a book for @VersoBooks On Un/Certainty, expanding on this essay, and much more
Behind endless talk of "uncertain times", we fail to attend to what is held certain – and it is contemporary certainties that give me most cause for concern... i went long on Big Uncertainty, via Wittgenstein, for the @VersoBooks blog versobooks.com/blogs/5455-cer…
Been waiting a long time for this article -- here it is: "Authenticity and the Poor Image in the Age of Deep Learning" (open access! 👀🙌) is finally out in photographies journal tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…
I take the opposite conclusion from this — the fact that emails and newsletters are annoying to write are the only friction preventing my inbox from becoming an even bigger wasteland. axios.com/2023/05/26/fut…
@robhorning Dude who profits of this supposed conversation talking about the supposed conversation: - Well yeah, people stop me on the streets all the time about how they want me to do even MORE with LESS accountability, is crazy man!
Thanks to Ludovico Silva I just found this sentence from Marx, "All our invention and progress seem to result in endowing material forces with intellectual life, and in stultifying human life into a material force."
New 'relevant ads' just dropped!
It looks so real 🥹🦫 x.com/0xgaut/status/…
@STS_News There was a review of the new Adobe ML image generator product (Firefly) which just launched in beta, and it has a familiar-to-Adobe-users interface that completely replaces prompts. Even the reviewer noted that prompt engineering is already over, even if boosters don’t know it.
more interesting than ChatGPT's answers are the ways its model of language has begun to prescribe our questions, from what and how we ask to which questions occur to us in the first place. we should not let corporate platforms direct our behavior for the purposes of their profit.
Part of me thinks the amount of work it will take to edit/clean up the messes of AI used for article writing will be greater than the amount of work saved by switching to AI…but I also think the companies making these pivots won’t really care about correcting the AI’s mistakes.
@robhorning I think "AI-generated content" is very different from "AI-authored content"
It's not impossible that humans could retreat to fully AI-powered ecosystems to be listened to and reenforced emotionally. But so far, whether it's subreddits or Discords, I've largely only seen humans talking to other humans about how to use AI.
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