On the Death of Amazon’s Writing Culture

How AI has turned what was once a superpower into a liability.

The Often Overlooked Water Footprint of AI Models

… and what that means for individuals, newsrooms, and journalists

Mister Gotcha | The Nib

Calling out all hypocrisy all the way.

Is AI the next Dumbwaiter? — Douglas Rushkoff

The demand for AI's unbridled growth is reactionary — a way of doubling down on the same old colonizing way of doing things. It doesn't have to be.

A Treatise on AI Chatbots Undermining the Enlightenment

On chatbot sycophancy, passivity, and the case for more intellectually challenging companions

Mapped: Global Sentiment on AI

This infographic shows public perception of AI all over the globe and how this sentiment is affected by where you live.

Midjourney

An independent research lab exploring new mediums of thought and expanding the imaginative powers of the human species.

DALL·E 3

This page introduced DALL·E 3, OpenAI’s 2023 image generation system with stronger prompt adherence and ChatGPT integration. Explore ChatGPT Images 2.5.

Hello GPT-4o

We’re announcing GPT-4 Omni, our new flagship model which can reason across audio, vision, and text in real time.

‎Google Gemini

Meet Gemini, Google’s AI assistant. Get help with writing, planning, brainstorming, and more. Experience the power of generative AI.

No, “AI” is not a Stochastic Parrot 🦜

I’ve recently come across a new flavor of AI denialism making the rounds.

LLMs are bullshitters. But that doesn't mean they're not useful.

Note: This is a personal essay by Matt Ranger, Kagi's head of ML In 1986, Harry Frankfurt wrote On Bullshit. He differentiates a lying from bullshitting: Lying means you have a concept of what is true,...

Planning with Agents: Divided Worlds, Boundary Objects, and Thicker Interfaces

Why we need richer, thicker interfaces and better boundary objects for collaborative planning with agents

Temperature Zero for Culture: Why Everything Is Starting to Look the Same

What 640 London shopping streets, 4,000 Billboard hits, a million films and synthetic AI personas tell us about why everything is flattening into sameness and how to regulate the algorithms behind it.

FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies

LLM scrapers are taking down FOSS projects' infrastructure, and it's getting worse.

No One Dies in this Dystopia

I am all done with grading for the semester just past, but the work sticks to me in a way I can’t yet manage to fling off.

The Omg Lol Times · We have to talk about AI “art”

Note: In this post I’m going to use the term “AI” as a lazy shorthand for “generative content creation via large-scale pre-trained models” because time is tight and I’ve got arthritis. I know it’s not really “AI”, but please, let me give my typing fingers a break here.

They're putting blue food coloring in everything

"Why is my burger blue?" I asked, innocently. "Oh! We're making all of our food blue, all the best restaurants are doing it now." the waiter explained. But I didn't want my burger to be blue.