We are living through the end of the useful internet. The future is informed discussion behind locked doors, in Discords and private fora, with the public-facing web increasingly filled with detritus generated by LLMs, bearing only a stylistic resemblance to useful information.
If Google’s own experiments with generative AI in Search continue, the benefit of loading sites with content catering to these search phrases might evaporate in the future.
I’m kind of feeling this, and my RSS reader, so carefully curated, is still awash with stories about and by and for AI. And, in the fight to surface useful stuff and log and file it, I realise that much of my energy here is just put into… well. just linkblogging. And I don’t know if that’s a good use of my time? Anyway, I have a little bit of space to plan out those new workflows I promised myself a couple of weeks ago.
Guillermo del Toro plans to spend the balance of his life only doing animation, and has a few interesting things to say about the Western form.
This film by Pedro Costa sounds fascinating, and there are lots of useful creative notes in this interview:
Well, the power, the enchantment of music confuses you. Transports you to another state. It’s obvious in this short, it’s very obvious. It’s what people say, like that critic. He saw the war there. It’s a cosmology. I need that and I want that. I’ve always wanted it. It’s going to be tense. Well, I hope that we can manifest that [Arnold] Schönberg thing, “Every look can become a poem, every sigh might become a novel,” because that’s what happens with singing and music, just a note can become your life.
Godard’s final work, a twenty-minute piece made of voice recordings and notes called PHONY WARS.