Situating LLMs for Creatives: Philosophy, Workflows, and Political Economy
A practical, philosophical, and politically grounded guide to how creatives should use AI without surrendering the human parts of creative work. This article explains what large language models really are, why they are not “intelligent” in the human sense, where AI tools help with automation, research, coding, file handling, and analytics, and where they still fail at novelty, judgment, meaning, and strategy. It also explores generative AI through the lens of labor, value, and creative work, arguing that the real threat is less aesthetic than economic. For marketers, editors, designers, producers, and other digital creatives trying to decide whether AI belongs in their workflow, this piece offers a clear answer: let the computer do the computer things, and protect the human work that only humans can do.
WWDC For the rest of us
Apple is attempting to own the term AI by terming its new approach to large language models as 'Apple Intelligence.' It’s being billed as a privacy-first LLM that is small in scale but has access to larger servers when needed, all without selling your personal data down the river. Off the bat, as you can imagine, I’m skeptical.
What Google’s Insistence on AI Means for Your SEO
Rather than praying to the SEO gods that Google will deem your site worthy of appearing higher in the search results, and making your site content sound robotic in the process, one might bypass that strategy altogether and put your content directly where your audience is. A strategic content campaign that delivers useful and entertaining content to online viewers where they’re at does something for them and endears them to your company before they’ve even seen your site.
FIXING APPLE’S FLOP, GPT-4O REVIEW, IPHONE VIDEOGRAPHY TIPS
If I were really trying to sell a computational device to artists, I wouldn’t be headlining its thinness. My 2018 iPad Pro is plenty thin and I have no ambitions to replace it anytime soon. If I wanted to advertise iPads to artists, I would want to show how they make you better at using the creative objects you love. You + iPad = More of what you love, not less. You could write around the “less is more” cliche, but what might be better is showing the artistic process of trying and failing over and over again.