What Maggie Appleton thinks about AI and human skill

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Designer, anthropologist and illustrator who writes about the web, tools for thought and generative AI on her digital garden at maggieappleton.com. Her 2022 essay "The Dark Forest and Generative AI" put the reverse Turing test -- proving you are not a language model -- into the vocabulary of the independent web.

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1. 31 Dec 2022

   Our readingMachine-generated writing raises rather than lowers the bar for people: once a machine can produce a competent summary, there is no value in a person producing one.

   Their wordsIn a world of automated intelligence, our goalposts for intelligence will shift. We’ll raise our quality bar for what we expect from humans.

   ↗The Dark Forest and Generative AImaggieappleton.com 6th of 8 in this piece