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excellent essay by David M. Berry about Prompt Anxiety (in #Italian, first, then #English)
https://www.stultiferanavis.it/la-rivista/ansia-da-prompt
it makes two excellent points:
- that "chance" is baked into the implementation of generative AI; this decouples skill from the quality of the output;
- without a correlation between skill and output, workers employ "magical thinking"; the lack of determinism leaves space for superstition; this breeds anxiety in the worker's mind
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