{"id":5039,"date":"2025-03-05T13:15:46","date_gmt":"2025-03-05T13:15:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/in-the-post-below-victoria-kirst-challenges-the-inevitable-supremacy-of-ai-and-the-assumptions-embedded-in-its-rise\/"},"modified":"2026-03-12T21:29:30","modified_gmt":"2026-03-12T21:29:30","slug":"in-the-post-below-victoria-kirst-challenges-the-inevitable-supremacy-of-ai-and-the-assumptions-embedded-in-its-rise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/uncategorized\/in-the-post-below-victoria-kirst-challenges-the-inevitable-supremacy-of-ai-and-the-assumptions-embedded-in-its-rise\/","title":{"rendered":"<a href=https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/feed\/update\/urn%3Ali%3Ashare%3A7303040528453881856>In the post below, Victoria Kirst challenges the inevitable supremacy of AI and the assumptions embedded in its rise:<\/a>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the post below, Victoria Kirst challenges the inevitable supremacy of AI and the assumptions embedded in its rise:<br \/>\n&#8220;So much of tech \u2013 generative AI included \u2013 has been built under the assumption that efficiency is king, and as a technologist, I feel exhilarated by the opportunities that await us if we reexamine all of tech with a radically different hypothesis: What if efficient is not always best? What if speed sometimes deprives us of experiences rather than saves us time? What if we prioritized just about anything else?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I love this perspective. I am not an artist, but I feel much the same way about AI writing. I refuse to use LLMs to write for me, even though many people I know rave about how &#8220;efficient&#8221; it makes their &#8220;content production&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Writing is not about content production for me &#8211; it&#8217;s about discovering what I think. The &#8220;aliveness&#8221; that Kirst describes comes from me struggling to decide how to communicate an idea, choosing which words best represent my intent. While I can&#8217;t always tell when writing is produced by AI, more and more of the &#8220;content&#8221; I see feels soulless.<\/p>\n<p>Efficiency is not the goal I choose for my life. I want to feel alive. I want to express my own experience. And AI is a shallow simulacrum of human expression, much like social media is a shallow simulacrum of actual human connection, and fast food is a shallow simulacrum of nutritious, filling food. It&#8217;s more efficient and convenient, perhaps, but it does not have the depth of experience, and I choose depth over efficiency.<\/p>\n<p>Hat tip to Ei-Nyung Choi for sharing Victoria Kirst&#8217;s post on AI art.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the post below, Victoria Kirst challenges the inevitable supremacy of AI and the assumptions embedded in its rise: &#8220;So much of tech \u2013 generative AI included \u2013 has been built under the assumption that efficiency is king, and as a technologist, I feel exhilarated by the opportunities that await us if we reexamine all&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5559,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5039\/revisions\/5559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nehrlich.com\/linkedin\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}