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Archives for August 2024

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Bluesky has gained a million new users in the last three days.

The platform posted about the milestone this afternoon, which it crossed after Brazilian Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered a ban on Elon Musk’s X yesterday as part of an ongoing feud with the platform.

Apparently, enough are headed to Bluesky to drive its iOS app to the top of the Brazilian App Store, as TechCrunch writes.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
AI search “shouldn’t be this easy to manipulate.”

Kevin Roose, whose New York Times story about horny Bing chats went viral last year, writes that chatbots are at times very negative about him since, having seemingly picked up on criticism of his piece.

Now, he writes about how he used techniques that could be considered an AI-focused version of SEO to influence how they respond when asked about him — and what that portends.

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
A man faces an October jury trial after using AI to make abusive images of real children.

That’s according to Forbes, which reports that the man had used a GoPro to record children at Disney World for the purpose:

... Justin Culmo, who was arrested in mid-2023, admitted to creating thousands of illegal images of children taken at the amusement park and at least one middle school, using a version of AI model Stable Diffusion ...

Wes Davis
Wes Davis
Capcom director Hideaki Itsuno is leaving after 30 years.

Itsuno says he will “start developing a new game in a new environment” beginning next month. He has directed some of Capcom’s most well-regarded games, including most of the Devil May Cry games, Power Stone 2, and, most recently, Dragon’s Dogma 2.

Check out Andrew Webster’s 2019 Verge interview with Itsuno, where he talked about his approach to Devil May Cry 5.

Jay Peters
Jay Peters
OpenAI might change its corporate structure.

Alongside its big funding round that could include investments from Apple and Nvidia, OpenAI may also change its structure “so that it is more appealing to investors,” The New York Times reports. OpenAI is a nonprofit with a for-profit subsidiary.

The NYT also says OpenAI has elevated Chris Lehane, who worked at Airbnb and in the Clinton administration, to be its VP of global policy.

Mia Sato
Mia Sato
COME (BACK) TO BRAZIL!!!!!

Brazilian fans of musicians, actors, and other celebrities play a huge role in cultivating fandoms online — and it’s unclear what will happen to stan Twitter (X) now that a judge in Brazil has ordered a ban on platform. A Timothée Chalamet updates account has already announced it’ll cease operations, and I bet this won’t be the only unexpected collateral damage.

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Emma Roth