By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026The problem is that the AI doesn't have any intent of its own - it just has statistical *predictions*, based on other people's intent, which it has analyzed through its training data. 10/ 2414
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026So when the AI expands the three sentences in your prompt into 100,000 words or 1,000,000 pixels, it isn't *adding* any of its intention to the finished work, it's *diluting* the intention you fed to it. 11/ 2649
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026Three sentences divided by one million pixels yields an image that has an average intentionality that's so low that it's practically homeopathic. 12/ 1557
Bellamy J. Heap @bellamyjheap.bsky.social · 03/06/2026The art of AI is the prompt, not the output. 000
