The Magic and Minstrelsy of Generative AI
It is the fabric of dreams and the substance of imagination. At stake now, as generative AI becomes what Bill Gates christened “the most important advance in technology since the graphical user interface,” is a war over images. Writing in her 2002 seminal essay “Future Texts,” Alondra Nelson prophesied as much. “In these politics of the future,” she wrote, “supposedly novel paradigms for understanding technology smack of old racial ideologies.” Twenty years on, the myth of utopia persists. What the vanguard tools of AI attempt to capture and replicate, with programs like ChatGPT and Midjourney, are the very things that make us stubbornly human: how we communicate and what we look like, our modes of performance, our need for sustained connection.
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