Video generation is getting good scarily fast.

There are some weird, weird sheep in there, though.

Still, kudos to Google for digitally watermarking their AI-generated images.

A large robot with a Facebook logo steps over a crowd and scattered paper planes, accompanied by a caption about AI generation.

The challenging thing about running a training course on Ai over four weeks, is that things can change dramatically between sessions…

An AI-generated image of atoms arranged in the shape of a banana as if it came from an electron scanning microscope

One of the deep problems with algorithmic social media is the incentive to figure out how to game the system: “growth hacks” as a certain constituency likes to call them.

Some of them are surprisingly akin to religious rituals. You have faith that they work, but not a lot of evidence…

Nice to see that @marsedit@mastodon.social has escaped squircle jails…

Three app icons are displayed: a pink musical note, a rocket on an orange background, and a presentation graphic.

Hosting a Warhammer morning for my daughter’s friends. (Kill Team and Underworlds: Emberguard)

A tabletop wargame setup is displayed with miniatures, terrain pieces, rulebooks, and dice on a wooden table.

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.

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…

Ashley Kirk is giving a presentation in a conference room, gesturing with open arms beside a projector screen and a table with a water bottle.

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.

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”.