Our latest video runs through the issues involved in resolving that conundrum, and the problems we may encounter if we can’t. Stick around till the end for a bonus “find the AI image” challenge!
If you struggle to understand why so many artists, writers, and other creatives find generative AI objectionable, just read this essay from Ted Chiang. Creativity itself is complex and subjective, but Chiang makes a good argument for why its absence is a notable flaw in AI-generated content.
Here’s one of many thought-provoking excerpts:
The task that generative A.I. has been most successful at is lowering our expectations, both of the things we read and of ourselves when we write anything for others to read. It is a fundamentally dehumanizing technology because it treats us as less than what we are: creators and apprehenders of meaning.
[The New Yorker]
In a Weibo post announcing an event on September 10th, Huawei’s head of consumer devices Yu Chengdong says (via machine translation) that the company will be revealing its “most leading, innovative, and disruptive product” yet.
According to Bloomberg and reputable leaker Ice Universe, that’s a reference to the unnamed triple-screen folding device that Yu has been photographed using over the last few weeks.
The creator of “One Million Checkboxes” has shared some heartwarming stories about the creative ways that teens interacted with the now-shuttered website. Check out the below video, this X thread, or Eieio’s blog for some feel-good Friday vibes about concealing URLs in binary and creating pixelated Rick-Rolls.
