News Summary

• ML models are cultural artifacts: they encode and reproduce textual, audio, and visual media.
• We lack appropriate cultural scripts for these kinds of machines, and will have to develop this knowledge over the next few decades.
• As models grow in sophistication, they may give rise to new forms of media: perhaps interactive games, educational courses, and dramas.
• They will also influence our sex: producing pornography, altering the images we present to ourselves and each other, and engendering new erotic subcultures.