Hours later: Me: Say, question for you. I don't know if you could do this, but if I were to say this character is obviously a stand-in for a particular real-life criminal mastermind, who is certainly in your data set, can you make it look more like him specifically?
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DALL-E Image Generation: Refining AI-Generated Character Design
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Me: Make the character in the style of a classic James Bond *villain*, like say Blofeld. Also, make him a middle-aged Chinese man.
Dall-E: Here.
Me: Ooh that is so close but could you put the overhead light fixture back, that was a great touch.
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Bond Villain Compliance Newsletter Cover Image Generation with DALL-E
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Me: The usual, need a cover image for a newsletter issue on Bond villain compliance strategies. I'll lay out the thesis in a few sentences: *snip* Give me a few concepts.
Dall-E: Here are four.
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DALL-E Image Generation Experience and Creative Process
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I used DALL-E to do an image again for today's Bits about Money, and perhaps I'm just a little hung over from turkey and post-midnight editing, but it was an amusing conversation. Condensed:
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Socially Contentious Questions in AI Development
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Answering the second part of that question is socially contentious.
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Mobile Payment Privacy Workarounds Create Hidden System Inefficiencies
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Interestingly, in some cases the best workaround is “Use a cell-phone resident payment service which doesn’t announce its IP address to the business accepting payments, and pay for that with the credit card”, which does create value in world by being less stupid buuuut.
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Pushing Back Against Compliance Teams: Rights and Escalation
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“Can you actually push back against a Compliance team?” Oh yeah. Heck, individual customers can push back against a Compliance team. “Can you define ‘push back’?” They tell them you can’t X. You argue you can. Someone there or senior to them backs your argument.
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Binance Compliance Waiver: Regulatory Implications for Financial Industry
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(Every Compliance department in financial industry is essentially a U.S. government proxy, but management or other teams can push back against Compliance and not automatically go to prison. Binance and CZ have essentially waived that going forward.)
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AI Monitoring Compliance and Legal Obligations for Organizations
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If you hire me as a consultant, and I tell you you should probably improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you will not go to prison. Would be crazy. If your monitoring consultants tell you to improve your onboarding flow, and you don’t, you have agreed to go to prison.
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US Government Surveillance Proxy at Binance Platform Monitoring
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As a specific example of speech which the ~contract compels, the monitoring apparatus getting installed in Binance is not the US government but is essentially their proxy. It will make policy recommendations which proxy for US’ aims.