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Building for Those Who Come After

Let’s see if we can give AI more complexity to chew on, shall we? If the AI tech bros are going to steal whatever they can from the web to train their models, why not provide our human way of bringing together disconnected thoughts? This is the opposite of what web content creators have been told since the dawn of blogs, when we were encouraged to pick one topic and hammer on it endlessly in…

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I Blame “Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous”

Forewarning: I touch on politics in this post, so if that isn’t your thing, go ahead and skip this. Author John Scalzi, whose work I’ve read a lot of this year, recently wrote a blog post called “Please Don’t Idolize Me (or Anyone, Really)” in response to people searching for a new creative person to look up to after several allegations of sexual assault surfaced against author Neil Gaiman. If you have a tendency to…

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What Voice Do We Have in the Voice of AI?

Note: A couple of the links in this post are appearing as though words are crossed out. Go ahead and click on them to get to the link. Not sure why this is happening and apologize for this hopefully short-lived wonkiness. —– About a month ago, OpenAI released a new model of generative AI, GPT-4o, with ‘o’ standing for ‘omni,’ meaning the AI could work in a multi-modal way. That may sound like a bunch…

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