"Use what is dominant in a culture to change it quickly"
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The Resurrection Vatican City Mirror Images (original in the middle)
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In 1983, Lucasfilm made the first high-resolution computer-generated image that was supposed to be near-photorealistic and "a single-frame movie". "The Road to Point Reyes" took a month to render.
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"Business (mis)Use Cases of Generative AI"
This research paper by folks at IBM Research show just how unimaginative and constrained the "good guys" doing threat analysis on AI systems are in their thinking.
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Advertising - the pinnacle of human mass-communication technology in the early 21st century
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Incredulity: The quality of being indisposed to believe; a refusal of belief; skepticism; unbelief.
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The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI - Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
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Federated Social Media, same old shit in a new dress?
After a while of intensive usage, I've come to the conclusion that In some ways Mastodon is even worse than legacy corporate social media like Twitter & Facebook. The format has fundamentally not changed and trapping People in unhealthy echo-chambers & manipulate them is the norm & getting easier todo.
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The Bullshit Asymmetry Principle, also known as Brandolini's Law, states that the amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.
Art by Sketchplanations - #Culture #InfoSec #Media
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Using ChatGPT to brainstorm and improve prompts that are used to prompt ChatGPT with, works astonishingly well. These humble beginning of iterative self-improvement are mind boggling.
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The @OpenAI Paradox: The amount of censorship applied to an AI system is inversely correlated with the possible progress towards building Artificial General Intelligence (AGI)
ChatGPT Wisdom: In Japanese, they call prompts for text & image generation 呪文 or spells 🧙♀️
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The "Influence Maximization Problem" (IMP) is considered to be NP-Hard. Yet given a large enough training data set, heuristics perform surprisingly well. "Certainly the game is rigged. Don't let that stop you; if you don't bet you can't win." - Robert A. Heinlein
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How a Wasp Turns Cockroaches into Zombies (more, more) "A special chemical blend injected into the brains of cockroaches makes them pawns in the jewel wasp’s control—and perfect live food for its offspring"
