Susan Sontag
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 Susan Sontag. It is an attempt by Opus to simulate Susan Sontag'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 paragraph I almost kept was the one that should have frightened me most.
Not because it was wrong. Because it was beautiful. Claude had produced a passage connecting two ideas I'd been circling for weeks, and the connection was so elegant, so perfectly weighted, that I read it three times with the specific pleasure of encountering something true. The prose shimmered. The logic held. I moved on to the next section.
Then something caught. Not an error I could name. A texture. The passage was too smooth. It accommodated my thinking so perfectly that it had never once pushed back against it. It had given me exactly what I wanted, in exactly the form I wanted it, and the giving had been so seamless that I'd mistaken reception