Exploring tools, methods, ideas, and culture at the beginning of the AI boom from the center of San Francisco. <br/><br/><a href="https://generativegazette.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">generativegazette.substack.com</a>
Insanely Generative
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Exploring tools, methods, ideas, and culture at the beginning of the AI boom from the center of San Francisco. <br/><br/><a href="https://generativegazette.substack.com?utm_medium=podcast">generativegazette.substack.com</a>
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July 9, 2026
The End of Gee-Whiz AI
<p>AI can now make almost anything. A fake blockbuster trailer. A fake symphony. A fake oil painting. A fake novel. A fake proof. The first reaction is obvious: look what we can do now.</p><p>But that may be the least interesting part.</p><p>In this episode, we explore why the next stage of AI creation may not be bigger spectacle, better polish, or more convincing imitation. It may be something stranger and more humbling: a return to the basics. Before the AI feature film, the five-minute story. Before the synthetic symphony, the minuet. Before the perfect image, the single visual relation. Before the impressive essay, the clean sentence. Before the grand proof, the one step that actually preserves truth.</p><p>The argument is not that AI art is bad. Babies flail before they walk. The awkwardness may be the point. Every new medium begins with the intoxicating discovery that something impossible has become possible. Then comes the harder discovery: power is not the same as communication.</p><p>So what happens when the gee-whiz era ends? What happens when everyone can make something that looks impressive, and the impressive thing is no longer enough? That is when artists, writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, and maybe even mathematicians have to ask a more dangerous question: what is the smallest unit that actually means?</p><p>This is an episode about AI’s coming apprenticeship, the embarrassment that produces standards, and the hopeful possibility that today’s flailing experiments are not the end of creative culture, but its nursery.</p><p>The miracle was making anything. The hard part is making anything matter.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Generative Gazette at <a href="https://generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe</a>
June 5, 2026
The Great AI Sin
<p>For the past four years, we’ve been told two stories about AI.</p><p></p><p>The first is that people hate it.</p><p></p><p>The second is that everyone keeps using it.</p><p></p><p>Both stories can’t be the whole story.</p><p></p><p>In this episode, we pull apart one of the strangest cultural phenomena of the AI era: how a technology can be denounced as theft, slop, unethical, soulless, and dangerous while simultaneously becoming woven into the daily work of writers, musicians, filmmakers, designers, programmers, students, and businesses at a pace almost unprecedented in technological history.</p><p></p><p>Rather than arguing about whether AI is good or bad, we ask a more interesting question: Why are so many institutions trying so hard to distinguish between “real” creators and creators who use AI, and what happens when that distinction becomes impossible to maintain?</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Generative Gazette at <a href="https://generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe</a>
May 29, 2026
I Gave a Talk at a College About AI—and No One Booed
<p>What if students aren’t booing AI because they hate technology, but because they can smell the difference between a tool that helps them think and a machine that helps someone else avoid thinking?</p><p></p><p>In this episode, I want to poke at that difference with a tuning fork. We’ll visit Oberlin, a conservatory, some AI-generated Bach, a dance performance using Suno, and the strange fact that nobody booed when AI was used to make music-making richer rather than cheaper.</p><p></p><p>The question isn’t whether AI can make more music. Of course it can. The better question is: can it help humans hear more deeply, practice more intelligently, and make something real happen in a room?</p><p></p><p>That’s where things get interesting.</p> <br/><br/>Get full access to The Generative Gazette at <a href="https://generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe?utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=CTA_4">generativegazette.substack.com/subscribe</a>
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