I love this because it articulates so well a precise vision of a world I don’t want to live in.

This is built from the collective works of all humans throughout history who have strived to make infographics, illustrations, and communicate knowledge - with 0 actual credit or reference to them (or financial compensation, if they’re still alive).

Instead, who is making money from this? Google, as providers of the model - and maybe the founders of this product, if they ever choose to monetize it somehow.

I’m not even going to get into how the results it produces have just enough “insight” to appear valid but the moment you inspect it up close, it’s completely wrong in most details, and replete with ornamentation that doesn’t actually add to meaning - a Potemkin village of knowledge - because the common answer to this criticism around here is “just wait 6 months bro the models will definitely solve all those problems”.

(some of the things I’ve tried for reference)

https://flipbook.page/n/56fed5ac8e164467b1d6151a6d5068ae

https://flipbook.page/n/deeb4d846d1a44738aa70d8973fc5765

https://flipbook.page/n/335fb5d4c4d8428d82e8a43fc4f7a4e8

We are not better off investing billions of dollars in computers doing this over paying humans to write and illustrate and make cultural artefacts. We are not better off putting this in the hands of kids rather than meaningfully designed resources & curriculum designed by humans.

What are we even doing.

That’s the biggest problem with the current wave of AI tooling - it’s so easy to make a cool demo all while completely missing the point of what actually is good for human flourishing.