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Empowering creatives in the age of AI · CEO · Co-founder · Associate Professor · Doctor of Technology (for real!) · he/him
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Denmark now has a police group specialising in fighting online crime around gaming like skin scams? They're on TikTok, FB, IG and, of course Twitch:
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This is mind-boggling research.
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I'm speechless.
Not peer-reviewed yet but a submitted paper.
The 'presented images' were shown to a group of humans. The 'reconstructed images' were the result of an fMRI output to Stable Diffusion.
In other words, #stablediffusion literally read people's minds.
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So, yes, a hard “agree” on quick results and magic promises. A big “yes, but” because the process is so much more important than the result.
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Yes this is accurate. But what is invisible is the countless throwaway and ephemeral uses of AI art. The art itself needs as much work to be good art as any other technique. But using it for previz, slides, brainstorming & generally communication is amazing.
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On why AI art will just clutter internet chumboxes for the subprime attention economy.
“Nor do I see lifestyle influencers being ‘replaced’ with AI because I don’t think an AI can be aspirational.”
From @broderick
garbageday.email/p/paying-to-re
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Marcus Aurelius is my new self help guru.
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Regular reminder to subscribe to ' newsletter. It's the best in-depth update on all things AI and creativity that I know:
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This website is having a normal one again.
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By now I'm fairly sure we will have to train our own language models at some point because otherwise we will lose out on all the progress that is being made in this area.
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I'm a bit afraid that the drive to create AGIs and replace search will lead to more and more "factual" language models. While that's great for those use cases it will limit our abilities to deliver great prose and guide the generation.
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What is described below is exactly what LAIKA does *not* do. It won't provide a perfectly formulated but derivative first draft. You, the writer, have to do the creative work and bring the idea. But you will get juicy inspiration that's never bland.
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Our tool is opinionated just like Midjourney. Given our emphasis on fine-tuning it has a lot of different opinions, but it'll never give a neutral answer.
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Trying to figure out what is different about our idea of creative tools and how we are heading in a quite different direction to the big players.
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The only AAA studio in town is working on a project that is not Hitman. Good for them.
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A new adventure begins at IOI. Join the party and help us realize our vision for a bold new online fantasy RPG: bit.ly/3mbfGo3
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We usually don’t retweet articles, but this opinion piece from the Guardian makes me so proud I want to brag about it! 😬
„…finally, a game speaks to me in the way music and books and movies do“
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After decades, I’ve finally found a game that moved me emotionally | Dominik Diamond theguardian.com/games/2023/feb
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Techno-utopians cherry-pick the value of new technologies with unrealistic assumptions. For example, I’ve seen people suggest using ChatGPT for first drafts as a way to get something on the page. This New Yorker excerpt does a good job explaining why that’s not ultimately helpful
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This is the most inspiring pitch I have seen in a while. Maybe I should do a similar exercise for in order to condense what we are making.
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We haven't raised a single $ for @mymind.
We have no investors.
There was no need to make a pitch deck.
But if we had one, it could look like this ↓
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The business card is dead. Maybe I should make some business cards now? Haven't had any in 10 years.
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Sounds like yet another crypto rug pull but this article is a lovely thrill-ride that keeps getting better. theguardian.com/politics/2023/
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Actually super interesting to read the details of the verdict. The created images are explicitly exempt from copyright.
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Replying to @martinpi
USCO maintains that individual generated images can’t have copyright. There’s nothing groundbreaking about this decision. Read the full statement first:
drive.google.com/file/d/1EK7jKV
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Copyright of AI co-authored graphic novel Zarya of the Dawn has been affirmed. Really curious how that will generalise and what it means for the future of co-creation.
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I received the Copyright Office's decision today about Zarya of the Dawn. The great news is that they affirmed my copyright, so Zarya of the Dawn will stay officially registered.
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If the first two of the above items change, the third one is the thing we are most excited to create.
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Things that set us apart from other writing apps:
- We don't have VC money.
- We don't even charge for LAIKA at this point.
- We want to create sources of income for writers.
- Our tool doesn't make writing easier – it just makes some exhausting parts more entertaining.
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With we're trying to make a very different kind of tool than generic ChatGPT, but communicating that we're not grifters is not easy. People just lump us together with content mills – and I get that. But let me set the record straight:
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This is a very good analysis of the problems that ChatGPT created in the writing space. I did not know about the grifters, get-rich-quick schemes, and influencers. This is really a disaster.
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anyway in the meantime read @TheLincoln's piece it's really good countercraft.substack.com/p/the-flood-of
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Never thought about it this way. Of course it is technically doing more with the data. But where to draw the line?
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"Historically, search engines have responded to users’ queries with links to third-party websites, making for a relatively clear-cut defense [Section 230] that they should not be held liable for the content"
But, as ChatSearch begins answering directly... washingtonpost.com/technology/202
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Can’t even remember when my old home country was ever in the international new for something good. Today, the news is that our Conservative Party members lack spines.
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Write with LAIKA is running fine. The power of hosting your own stack is unbeatable.
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Breaking 
None of the OpenAI services including ChatGPT, GPT-3 playground and API is serviceable at the moment.
1000s of apps built on top of OpenAI API are down.
High time to avoid reliance on a single platform, big opportunity for companies like Cohere, Anthropic & OneAI
None of the OpenAI services including ChatGPT, GPT-3 playground and API is serviceable at the moment.
1000s of apps built on top of OpenAI API are down.
High time to avoid reliance on a single platform, big opportunity for companies like Cohere, Anthropic & OneAIShow this thread
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When art became a commodity, the future we're heading towards became inevitable. Powerful thoughts on why we are where we are. theleftovers.substack.com/p/ai-will-libe
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The last few days in this weird world of Generative AI got me thinking, so I wrote a tiny newsletter about how we work and what we could not do before.
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If starts a newsletter you better sign up to being drip-fed with entertaining, thought-provoking, and surprising wisdom:
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These are some good observations about the culture around Generative AI.
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Here’s a slide from a presentation I did on generative models last month, addressing the idea that all AI art has a common aesthetic.
In a ‘Raiders of The Lost Ark’ warehouse of infinite potential, most people are clustered around the front door
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Surreal moment at the Brian Jonestown Massacre gig yesterday when singer Anton Newcombe started to rant about AI between songs.
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This has happened to me before when I read a book in German first and then accidentally in English again. But I don’t think that’s the case here. Mysterious.
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I see the Chinese Room is making the rounds again. I always found it mesmerising that this thought experiment assumes that people know what they are talking about. But have you met people? We all regularly live in the Chinese Room, having no clue what we’re saying.
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Schrödinger's sculpture?
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British Museum's chairman suggests 'hybrid' deal with Greece over Parthenon Marbles
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My work for the week is done.
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Now we're talking.
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