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Adam Curtis on the BBC, Politics & AI

“It’s the ghost of our time.”

Curtis has an interesting theory: because of how LLMs are trained on existing content, GenAI is actually a reflection of our past that we’ll need to culturally escape from, rather than a vision into our future. It’s a compelling argument. Time will tell, but I think it’s worth consideration.

The segment starts around 39:41 and the link above begins at that timestamp.