Gradually, then Suddenly: Upon the Threshold (Ethan Mollick, One Useful Thing)
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Declare your AIndependence: block AI bots, scrapers and crawlers with a single click (Cloudflare, cloudflare.com)
ChatGPT is hallucinating fake links to its news partners’ biggest investigations (Andrew Deck, NiewmanLab)
Language Model Sketchbook, or Why I Hate Chatbots (Maggie Appleton, maggieappleton.com)
Blazing Fast Local Chatbots with Llama.cpp and Gradio (Freddy A. Boulton, freddyboulton.com)
Prompting Techniques and Best Practices for Journalists (Mowafak Allaham, Generative AI in the Newsroom)
When the Terms of Service Change to Make Way for A.I. Training (Eli Tan, NYTimes)
Forget Deepfakes: Social Listening Might be the Most Consequential Use of Generative AI in Politics (Dean Jackson, Zelly Martin, TechPolicy)
Google Is Turning Into a Libel Machine (Matteo Wong, The Atlantic)
AI’s coming inverted pyramid moment for journalism (David Cohn, Poynter)
AI is exhausting the power grid. Tech firms are seeking a miracle solution. (Evan Halper, Caroline O’Donovan, WaPost)
Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead (Leopold Aschenbrenner, situational-awareness.ai)
Style & Composition Transfer with IP Adapter and ControlNet in Stable Diffusion (Shanmukha Karthik, Segmind)
What I learned from the UN’s “AI for Good” summit (Melissa Heikkiläarchive page, Technology Review)
Artifact’s DNA Lives on in Yahoo’s Revamped AI-Powered News App (Boone Ashworth, Wired)