“Magazine Publishes Serious Errors in First AI-Generated Health Article”
“The dangers of autocomplete: Why we should resist AI’s attempts to eliminate friction from writing”
For those committed to ignoring history: “the brain works just like this new tech” is a recurring theme in tech discourse and it’s always wrong
The brain does not work like a clockwork mechanism, transistors, computers, software, or LLMs
The brain, so far, is a unique thing
My CSS wishlist is simply to have more time to be able to do things properly.
Also my JS, HTML, and blogging wishlist
“Why I’m not the biggest fan of Single Page Applications - Manuel Matuzović”
“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker”
“What use is there in having something that rephrases the Web?”
“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker”
“Generally speaking, though, I’d say that anything that’s good for content mills is not good for people searching for information.”
“ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web - The New Yorker”
“When we’re dealing with sequences of words, lossy compression looks smarter than lossless compression.”
So, somebody in Canada hit one of my blog posts with a 1.5 million requests using a script of some sort. Does Netlify provide some sort of tool to prevent this sort of thing?
“Automating podcast transcripts on my Mac with OpenAI Whisper – Six Colors”
Making audio transcripts easier is one of the constructive uses of this tech.
“AI has a fairly spotty track record for taking demos into reliable products”
“Weeknotes: A bunch of things I learned this week, plus datasette-explain”
That 90s Show feels like one of those show-within-a-show bad sitcoms that’s included in a middling sitcom about how dysfunctional TV production is.
“ChatGPT: Is its use of people’s data even legal?”
I’m not the only one to doubt the legality of ChatGPT and Large-Language-Models under the GDPR.
“Nintendo to increase wages 10% despite lowered forecast”
A few days ago I posted a link to a 13 year old story about Nintendo refusing to do layoffs despite a recession. Looks like its management culture hasn’t changed
Unofficial theme song for my current writing project:
“MotherDuck: Big Data is Dead”
“The cost of keeping data around is higher than just the cost to store the physical bytes.”
“‘Disrespectful to the Craft:’ Actors Say They’re Being Asked to Sign Away Their Voice to AI”
The tech industry is really gunning for the creative industries. Tho, this does show how useful a strong union is
I like how Google decided to take an already controversial tech and use it to go all in on exactly the thing they’re being sued for all around the world, has caused countries to table Google-specific legislation, and has already launched dozens of antitrust investigations.
“We come to bury ChatGPT, not to praise it.”
“For these players, the seductive vision isn’t real AI (whatever that is) but technologies that are good enough to replace human workers”
This is an interesting experiment in trying to find the original images that ‘inspired’ the AI output. (Wonder if GitHub’s experiments in finding attributions for verbatim code works similarly?)
“The Market for Lemons - Infrequently Noted”
Always post links that reference Akerlof.