One Man's notebook this week.
The best metaphor I’ve seen for AI is that it’s our generation’s asbestos. If you think about it, asbestos was this technological marvel that promised to solve a huge problem and that got crammed in everywhere. And yeah, it was good at keeping things from catching on fire, but it also came with an extremely elevated chance of painful, lingering death, and removing it from the system has taken untold years and billions of dollars.
This is a ChatGPT/Midjourney co-creation for a course I’m running later today.
My job is… strange sometimes.
In the rush to headline “AI is transforming journalism”, we are losing sight of what really matters: the audience. AI must not become the strategy. Especially when data suggests audiences remain sceptical of purely AI-generated journalism.
👉 Read “Getting AI in Perspective”.
My “shrimp Jesus” post from over a year ago is picking up a load of Google traffic again.
Still trying to figure out why.
Other than, y’know, Shrimp Jesus.
Welcoming @ashleyjkirk.bsky.social from @theguardian.com back to City St George’s for an energetic guest talk on visual journalism.
I love bringing in expert guest speakers, but former students in particular. Even if it occasionally makes me feel old…
I was chatting to a former student the other evening, and I predicted that it would be ages before The Telegraph sale was resolved, after the collapse of the Redbird deal.
Not one of my better predictions. In fact, it has aged like rancid butter.
Hosting a Warhammer morning for my daughter’s friends. (Kill Team and Underworlds: Emberguard)
