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Dear Gossips, <\/p>\n
Taffy Brodesser-Akner is one of the best celebrity profilers in the business, especially during a time in which celebrities do not like and often resist giving profiles. But how can you forget her incredibly raw, intimate profile<\/a> of Tom Hiddleston on the heels of his very public split with Taylor Swift? Or how she turned Bradley Cooper\u2019s unwillingness to be interviewed<\/a> into the interview itself? Or her profile of Gwyneth Paltrow and how goop was fueled by haterade<\/a>?<\/p>\n TBA is a rarified writer, a celebrity journalist who can still get a good story out of celebrities when they are at their most dead boring and reticent. So, naturally, she was sent to interview (\u201cinterview\u201d) AI-generated \u201cactress\u201d Tilly Norwood. You simply must read this profile<\/a> for yourself. It was published on Sunday, I\u2019ve read it four times now, I am absolutely haunted by it.<\/p>\n Because media literacy is dead, and apparently literacy literacy is dead, too, some have accused TBA of AI boosterism, or of glazing Tilly Norwood, as the kids say. But TBA\u2019s \u201cprofile\u201d of Tilly Norwood is hardly positive. Her refrain of Tilly is just a computer is not reassuring or encouraging or excited or any positive thing. It\u2019s a reduction. Tilly is JUST a computer. There is no Tilly, there is JUST computer. And computer is not interesting. Computer is just computer. At best, computer is a digital parrot, a rapidly improving mimic that still lacks a parrot\u2019s color and personality. Computer is nothing. Computer is remarkable only for the cliff it is pushing us toward.<\/p>\n By the end of the profile TBA sounds completely defeated. Her final lines are what haunt me, a line as good and resounding as any of the great closing lines in English literature: \u201cThere is nothing like people. That is what I\u2019ll remember about us, how interesting we were.\u201d<\/p>\n How interesting we WERE.<\/p>\n Past tense. Because what TBA excavates through her \u201cinterview\u201d with Tilly Norwood, a collection of pixels and algorithms given a name by its creator, Dutch actress and designer Eline van der Velden, is that this technology is inherently hollow, that Tilly will never be as interesting as Eline van der Velden herself, and that the tragedy of Tilly is that Eline is finally getting the breaks she longed for as an actress by giving movement and marketing to a computer. Eline wants people to see Tilly as a tool like any other in a filmmaker\u2019s toolbox, Eline will not reconcile with the notion that she has buried her own career in Tilly\u2019s fa\u00e7ade. One day Tilly will not need Eline, and then where will Eline be? How interesting she was, they might say, if anyone even remembers the person behind the pixels.<\/p>\n This reminds me of the quote<\/a> by the late great Kurt Vonnegut, which also haunts me for its prescience: \u201c\u2026we\u2019re here on Earth to fart around. And, of course, the computers will do us out of that. And, what the computer people don\u2019t realize, or they don\u2019t care, is we\u2019re dancing animals.\u201d<\/p>\n I asked the writer Tom Robbins once if he had any advice for a young writer, and he said, \u201cStand in lines.\u201d Stand in lines? \u201cMeet people,\u201d he elaborated. \u201cStand in lines. Talk to diner waitresses. Ride buses. Encounter the masses.\u201d I am now a not-so-young writer, and I make regular trips to the post office to buy stamps I don\u2019t need just so I can stand in a line and talk to the ladies who work the counter (they think I\u2019m a philatelist and they\u2019re always offering me the latest and greatest in stamp couture. We also talk about The Pitt). I go to the bank and deposit paper checks and catch up on gossip with the teller (shout out Rudy!!). I ride public transit with my headphones off, ears open to the world. I have never been poorer for following Tom Robbins\u2019 advice.<\/p>\n We\u2019re dancing animals. We are meant to engage, to be mischievous, to see and do and go and talk and hear and f-ck and love and hurt and forgive and learn and grow. Computers cannot do any of this. Maybe someday something will come from a computer, and it will be able to do some of these things, but it will never do all of them. It will do other things, and it will be another kind of creature, but it will not be human. It will relate to us, probably, like we relate to dogs. If we\u2019re lucky, we\u2019ll get along just as well. But it will never be us. Why are we in such a rush to replace US?<\/p>\n I live in the world.<\/p>\n I LIVE in the world.<\/p>\n I live IN the world.<\/p>\n I don\u2019t want a computer to do and think for me, to perform and amuse me, because I don\u2019t want to stop living. Do you?<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to read TBA’s piece. And join us at The Squawk<\/a> for a deeper dive. (App link here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n Live long and gossip,<\/p>\n Sarah<\/p>\n Photo credits: Ray Tamarra\/Shutterstock<\/span>\n <\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.laineygossip.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Dear Gossips, Taffy Brodesser-Akner is one of the best celebrity profilers in the business, especially during a time in which celebrities do not like and often resist giving profiles. But how can you forget her incredibly raw, intimate profile of Tom Hiddleston on the heels of his very public split with Taylor Swift? 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