- AI systems now write elaborate constrained poetry and independently win a complex strategy game released after their training, feats a person would call creative (Mitch)
- Coverage of Netflix buying Ben Affleck's AI visual effects company for $587 million in cash described the work as leaving the creative side of filmmaking untouched, and Affleck's own post drew a similar line (Mitch)
- Defining creativity as whatever AI cannot do yet does not save jobs, it just reclassifies those jobs as never having been creative (Mitch)
- In HalluSquatting, attackers publish real software packages under names that coding agents invent, so the agent downloads malware or weakens the user's code (Mitch)
- Research on the attack measured hallucination rates as high as 85 percent when agents fetch code libraries, and found that models from different companies invent the same fake names (Mitch)
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Creativity Gets Redefined, and Coding Agents Get Squatted
By Mitchell Howe
This dispatch looks at how the definition of creativity keeps shifting to exclude whatever AI can do, leaving visual effects artists outside the label, and at a new attack that turns coding agents' invented software names into openings for malware.
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