Low-Rank Adaptation, LoRA, allows for fine-tuning without the need to retrain the entire model. You can teach FLUX a specific style or a specific aesthetic, even a face. A while back, there was a big trend of uploading a dozen photos to some shady app, maybe paying a few euros, and getting a set of...
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AI Search Has A Citation Problem. We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News. (Klaudia Jaźwińska and Aisvarya Chandrasekar, Columbia Journalism Review)
“Liberal AI Grok Attacks Trump, Turns on Creator Musk in Shocking Betrayal”
What happens when you cram all the world's knowledge, or at least what you can find, into a machine? The machine gets a sense of what's considered normal. I know, loaded term. Let's call it a baseline. This even applies to Elon Musk's supposed super AI, Grok 3. "Should a U.S. president say 'He who...
Put AI at the beginning, not at the end
(This is my contribution to Nieman Lab's Predictions for Journalism, 2025) Many newsrooms and publishers are looking for ways to use generative AI, and they’re making one crucial mistake: They’re hoping for the one magic button. They’re hoping for AI that can quickly turn an article into a podcast, web story, or newsletter. For AI...
Apple urged to axe AI feature after false headline (Graham Fraser, BBC)
Every AI Copyright Lawsuit in the US, Visualized (Kate Knibbs, Wired)
We Looked at 78 Election Deepfakes. Political Misinformation is not an AI Problem (Sayash Kapoor, Arvind Narayanan, AI Snake Oil)
How Claude Became Tech Insiders’ Chatbot of Choice (Kevin Roose, NYTimes)
What If the Robots Were Very Nice While They Took Over the World? (Virgina Heffernan, Wired)
Inside the launch — and future — of ChatGPT (Kylie Robison, The Verge)
Resources (from the author of AI Engineering) (Chip Huyen, GitHub)
OpenAI launches Sora, its generative video AI, leaving out Germany, Switzerland, other EU countries initially.
Perplexity-CEO Aravind Srinivas: “Du wirst getäuscht” (Nicolas Killian, Zeit Online)
