One Man's notebook this week.
Print isn’t dead, and doesn’t need to die. Because, in a digital-first world, it’s an invaluable form of retreat and escape.
Finished reading: Lucius: The Faultless Blade by Ian St. Martin 📚
Interesting dipping back into Warhammer fiction after 30 years. Surprisingly good for tie-in fiction. Predictably grimdark, but does a good job of making you care what happens to the characters, while still amazing it clear they are early all irredeemable monsters.
Meta’s AI Will Suggest Comments for Users to Post About Your Photos:
Meta is testing an Instagram feature that suggests AI-generated comments for users to post beneath other users’ photos and videos.
So an AI can leave a comment on an AI-created image, while being shown an AI-created ad, and we can do something more meaningful with our lives.
Turns out there’s a lot of books I wrote in the pirated data Meta used to train its LLM. And I’m not the only family member impacted, either…
I’d be a lot more sanguine about this if it wasn’t, well, Meta.
Taking advantage of micro.blog’s new EU hosting option to move adders.blog’s hosting to the EU.
For obvious reasons.
Listening to an interesting talk by Professor Nick Couldry, who pointing out that we legislate to stop companies filling our rivers and land with pollutants. Isn’t it about time we started doing the same to companies polluting our social ecosystems with toxic social interactions?
He’s written a book exploring these ideas and how human solidarity survives social media, called The Space of the World.
Yeah, going to read that.
ChatGPT has remade me in Studio Ghibli style:
Discussion of it is everywhere, and @paulrobertlloyd is bored of it.
I know how he feels.
Rule for life.
