Robin Sloan has a new zine available for purchase.
This is a three-color Risograph print on 11″ × 17″ paper. The poster side bears a design & exhortation that are, as of this writing, indecipherable to the frontier AI models from Google, Anthropic, & OpenAI.
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This zine is playful & also serious. Playful, because I had so much fun thinking through the cat & mouse of these strategies. Serious, because AI’s compounding capability really does pose a profound, unsettling new challenge to artists of every kind — commercial or academic, aspiring or professional, digital or analog.
This is epochally weird stuff, & anything could happen in the decade ahead. The value & values of art are never static; reconsideration sweeps in like rain. The Secret Playbook isn’t about defense (though there is some defense in here) but rather about where to go next. It’s a map towards higher ground.