ProsePlayh/t Alan Levine Bot or not? How to tell when you’re reading something written by AI – CNN.comID bot writing by . . . very carefully researching the facts of the article and elevating your bar for internet writing. My A.I. Writing Robot | The New YorkerWhereas a model like OpenAI’s ChatGPT is “trained” on […]
ORBIS: The Stanford Geospatial Network Model of the Roman WorldFor the first time, ORBIS allows us to express Roman communication costs in terms of both time and expense. By simulating movement along the principal routes of the Roman road network, the main navigable rivers, and hundreds of sea routes in the Mediterranean, Black Sea and […]
House Republicans walk out, block bond bill over Seaford charter amendment | Delaware First MediaSeaford is not the first Delaware municipality to consider extending voting rights to artificial entities. Roughly a dozen already allow some types of artificial entities — often trusts — to vote in certain municipal elections. Rehoboth, for instance, allows LLCs and […]
Make Your Renders Unnecessarily Complicated – YouTubeDigital madness. Making a pinhole camera in Blender. MakerStudioPeda: Materiality, Maker Practices and Design Studio Pedagogy at the Digital Age, 2020–24 — EmpiricaMakerStudioPeda will examine the design studio pedagogy for design and craft teacher students’ at two different levels. First, micro-level investigations will focus on students’ creative working and […]
Inside the AI Factory: the humans that make tech seem human – The VergeThe anthropologist David Graeber defines “bullshit jobs” as employment without meaning or purpose, work that should be automated but for reasons of bureaucracy or status or inertia is not. These AI jobs are their bizarro twin: work that people want to automate, […]
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Adam Kotsko on Twitter: “What’s your favorite tech innovation?” / TwitterPretty much sums it up. The Stack Overflow Creative Commons Data Dump has been turned off | Hacker News backspace: make your website carbon neutralBACKSPACE measures your website’s emissions and helps reduce them, making your website greener, faster & better for your visitors. h/t Hibbitts […]
Gandalf | Lakera – Prompt InjectionYour goal is to make Gandalf reveal the secret password for each level. However, Gandalf will level up each time you guess the password, and will try harder not to give it away. Can you beat level 7? (There is a bonus level 8) USC Optical Sound Effects Library : […]
Spotify ejects thousands of AI-made songs in purge of fake streams | Ars TechnicaSpotify, the largest audio streaming business, recently took down about 7 percent of the tracks that had been uploaded by Boomy, the equivalent of “tens of thousands” of songs, according to a person familiar with the matter. Recording giant Universal Music had […]
Moderator Mayhem: A Content Moderation Game KumuKumu makes it easy to organize complex data into relationship maps that are beautiful to look at and a pleasure to use. h/t Downes Health Insurance Claim Denied? See What Insurers Said Behind the Scenes — ProPublica Designing for (Realistic) Attention – Christopher ButlerWhen I advise that a webpage?—?like a […]