perhaps besides the point but man the bing generator looks great https://
x.com/MrTooDamnChris
/MrTooDamnChris/status/1709055361473286213
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@cwarzel
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Bing Image Generator Impresses with Visual Quality Output
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Google Search: Internet’s Tragedy of Constant Scaling Demands
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Wrote about Google search, which feels to me like a tragedy of the internet and it’s demand for constant scaling
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Slack Redesign Blurs Work and Social Media Boundaries
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great @ibogost on slack's redesign. making work more like social media now (and also a full concession to the idea that it has led a generation to perfect the art of larping their jobs).
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Atlantic Guide: Understanding Digital Privacy in 2023
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This week The Atlantic has a great package out offering up a guide to privacy. I wrote the opening essay trying to grapple with what our digital privacy even means at this point in 2023 and why it's so hard to find the right metaphor https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2023/09/personal-data-digital-privacy-value-choices-rights/675183/
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Books3 Dataset Reveals Pirated Content in Major LLM Training
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in case you missed it over the weekend: a look into the actual material that some prominent LLMs are being trained on https://
theatlantic.com/technology/arc
hive/2023/08/books3-ai-meta-llama-pirated-books/675063/
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AI Work Automation Shifting Email Patterns Late Night
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i can't bring myself to believe these types of stats. like, i bet the work is just shifting and people are emailing later at night before bed or something
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Tech Leadership’s Sensationalism on AI Existential Risks Questioned
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to be clear – i suppose i get the incentives on both sides (media wants sensational heds; i guess its good PR if Sam is talking about end times) it all just seems dumb to me, especially from the tech co perspective
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Media focuses on AI apocalypse instead of current capabilities
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i don't understand what the point of all this is — both from the media perspective of focus on APOCALYPSE and also from Sam/OpenAI's perspective of talking so much about it. we're just so stuck on the ai hypotheticals instead of being interested in what they do/don't do now
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Newsworthiness is editorial choice not inevitability
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anyhow – yet another plea from me that newsworthiness is a choice masquerading as an inevitability !
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Meta’s Market Dominance: Digital Monopoly Concerns
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we're all hostages trapped in zuck's backyard octagon