Stuff we figured out about AI in 2023 (Simon Williams, Blog)
Linkposts
Character.ai: Young people turning to AI therapist bots (Joe Tidy, BBC)
Cleo Abram: Creating videos with AI (Google, YouTube)
A Camera, Not an Engine. Modern AI puts us firmly into an age of exploration of computational reality (Venkatesh Rao, Ribbonfarm Studio)
AI Empire: Unraveling the interlocking systems of oppression in generative AI’s global order (Jasmina Tacheva, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Big Data & Society)
When AI Is Trained on AI-Generated Data, Strange Things Start to Happen (Maggie Harrison Dupré, Futurism)
Inside the A.I. Arms Race That Changed Silicon Valley Forever (Karen Weise, Cade Metz, Nico Grant, Mike Isaac, NYTimes)
Weird A.I. Yankovic, a cursed deep dive into the world of voice cloning (Andy Baio, Waxy)
AI and Trust (Bruce Schneier, Schneier on Security)
How 10 News Industry Leaders Use ChatGPT in Their Personal Lives (Nikita Roy, Newsroom Robots)
Prompt Structure in Conversations with Generative AI (Raluca Budiu, Feifei Liu, Amy Zhang, Emma Cionca, Nielsen Norman Group)
An AI Artist Explains His Workflow (Bridgett Henwood, YouTube)