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In our digital era, movies and T.V. shows were supposed to get easier to watch, not harder. But it turns out, media companies are fickle—and media distribution can get complicated as it crosses borders. … So what are a viewer’s options when a studio or streamer abruptly yanks a film or series from distribution or,…
Unlike influencers in the so-called “wellness-to-fascism” pipeline, the Johnsons do not exploit skepticism toward mainstream health expertise to prime their audiences for right-wing talking points. Instead, they start with a fascist aesthetic tradition that prizes hard young bodies and fuse it with the language of self-help culture, promising potential followers eternal life among a cadre…
As professor and author Gary Marcus and film industry concept artist Reid Southen, who has worked on several major films for the likes of Marvel and Warner Brothers, argue in a recent piece for IEEE Spectrum, tools like DALL-E 3 and Midjourney could land both companies in a “copyright minefield.” https://futurism.com/ai-image-generators-copyrighted-characters
If you could sum up what we learned in 2023, and I think what tech has learned, too, is that people matter. Even in the wildest of innovations, people still matter, and human relationships still matter, and you can’t shortcut it. – Rich Ziade, Aboard Podcast https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2024/humans-all-the-way-down/
If you’re an adenoidal keyboard warrior from IT who still buys Musk BS on this topic, you’re fucking dumb or actively misanthropic. No amount of wishful thinking is going to magic this fairy tale into existence with the current approach. IN 2016, JUST WEEKS before the Autopilot in his Tesla drove Joshua Brown to his death, I pleaded with…
We are entering into the next phase of the digital technology revolution. Passive consumption is no longer cutting it. We need to be active and critical users. [Amish communities] designate a few community members as nerds who can try out a technology and report back on how it changed their families and their focus. The…
VCs poured money into virtual worlds, crypto startups, and NFT firms in 2021. They now have their sights set elsewhere. https://www.inc-aus.com/sam-blum/as-ai-rises-is-web3-dead-in-the-water.html
Brooks isn’t saying the AI industry is doomed, mind you, but that such ambitious technological advancements take time — and a lot of it. Whether the industry’s financial backers are ready to hunk down and play the long game, though, is more dubious. https://futurism.com/the-byte/robotics-expert-ai-hype-reality-check
Zvi provides a complete rundown of current AI news, as neutral just-the-facts reporting. He covers more detail than most people would want—I just skim it—but he highlights the most important stuff… Arvind is in the “much less powerful than hyped, but with potential for dire misuse” quadrant. He combines skeptical takes on current AI technical practice (like…
Richard Murphy provides a fine takedown of the pernicious role neoclassical economists have played by overstating the risk of inflation and using it as a pretext to cruch wages. However, Murphy, no doubt due to space constraints, understates the scope and nature of damage done by neoclassical economics, which has become the foundation of mainstream…
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