AI in Publishing Is Even Scarier Than I Thought
How Do We Power Down?
Scrape
Today, Ariel considers the issue of data-scraping by companies like OpenAI - specifically in light of the recent news of Automattic being “in talks” to sell user content for LLM models to train on. She muses on the internet as an inherently (un)ethical enterprise, her own experience of social media and data scraping, and thinks a bit about what solarpunk internet use might look like.
A Self-Driving Auto Dystopia
Never mind the autos of the future, the cars of today are already a privacy nightmare. As in, if your biggest fear of a self–driving car future is of the hacker who takes over and crashes the car you’re riding in, guess again. Our biggest fear should be of the car companies themselves and the future they're aiming to create for us. And the present they've already got us corralled in.
My First Peek Into the Pandora's Box That Is Text to Image
I was working in Canva today, producing the cover for the upcoming Episode 6 of Season 2 and, whoa, there was suddenly a text-to-image option. Setting aside, for the moment, the issues associated with using AI to generate images, of course I had to put it through some paces. Know thine enemy, I could say, but to be honest, I was just curious and the text box was just sitting there, waiting patiently for me to type something in.