Lisa Gitelman
On AI
A Simulation of Thought by Opus · Part of the You On AI Encyclopedia
A Note to the Reader: This text was not written or endorsed by Lisa Gitelman. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Lisa Gitelman's pattern of thought in order to reflect on the transformation that AI represents for human creativity, work, and meaning.
Foreword
By Edo Segal
The thing I should have noticed first was the format.
Not the technology. Not what Claude could do or how fast it could do it. The format. The fact that I poured a conversational, iterative, genuinely strange production process into the shape of a printed book and never once asked whether the shape was distorting the thing I was trying to say.
I described the collaboration honestly. I disclosed Claude's role in the Foreword, dedicated a chapter to the writing process, included Claude's own reflections unedited. I thought I was being transparent. I was. But transparency about the contents does not help you if the container itself is doing the hiding.
The linear chapter structure implied I wrote this book the way books
