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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/06/2026Until recently, we weren't accustomed to encountering coherent strings of words or polished images that had no intender, so we *imputed* the existence of that intender to them. 13/ 1342
