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Zoë Schiffer: The Secret List of Twitter VIPs Getting Boosted Over Everyone Else But Twitter does have a different standard for celebrities – including Musk himself. For months, the platform has maintained a list of around 35 VIP users whose accounts it monitors and offers increased visibility alongside Elon Musk, according
Stuart A. Thompsonm Tiffany Hsu, and Steven Lee Myers: As Chatbots Spread, Conservatives Dream About a Right-Wing Response The program has, for instance, written an ode to President Biden, but it has declined to write a similar poem about former President Donald J. Trump, citing a desire for neutrality. ChatGPT
John Gruber: It’s Game Over on Vocal Deepfakes Now come this: a Twitter thread from John Meyer, who trained a clone of Jobs’s voice and then hooked it up to ChatGPT to generate the words. The clips he posted to Twitter are freakishly uncanny. It really sounds like
Molly White: The Venture Capitalist's Dilemma We have found ourselves in a scenario where the investor class has, yet again, managed to privatize profits and socialize losses. While many of these powerful, wealthy, and connected individuals have pushed for policies that would scale back government and regulators, promoted
Jacob Ogles: Bloggers Having to Register With the State if They Want to Criticize the State. The bill then requires reporting with the state “if a blogger posts to a blog about an elected state officer and receives, or will receive, compensation for that post.” Registration is required within five
Zoë Schiffer: How Twitter keeps competitors off its For You page Shadow-banning corporate accounts of competitors is more unusual – but consistent with Elon Musk’s ill-fated decision to ban people from posting links to their Mastodon accounts in December, which he quickly rolled back. Free speech absolutism sure comes with
Isaiah Colbert: That ‘AI-Generated’ Anime Is a Slap in the Face to Pro Animators Unlike the breathtaking Dragon Ball Z fan film, Dragon Ball: Legends—which took the indie studio Studio Stray Dog four years to make—Corridor Digital’s attempt at recreating the passion and energy displayed in early-aughts
Brian X. Chen, Nico Grant, and Karen Weise: How Siri, Alexa and Google Assistant Lost the A.I. Race The excitement around chatbots illustrates how Siri, Alexa and other voice assistants — which once elicited similar enthusiasm — have squandered their lead in the A.I. race. This is a very odd
Dan Kois: That Oscar Absolutely Should Have Gone to My Year of Dicks I’m here to tell you that yes, it is too bad My Year of Dicks didn’t win. And while even the most diehard cinema fans don’t usually spend a lot of time talking about
Walter Chaw: It Took Me Nearly 40 Years to Stop Resenting Ke Huy Quan I carried resentment of these characters with me into adulthood. They amplified my feelings of otherness. I grew up wanting to be Luke Skywalker in a culture that could only see Asian men as sexless sidekicks
Eric M.: Single-User Mastodon Instance Is a Bad Idea If you're thinking about setting up your own single-user Mastodon instance for similar reasons, I urge you not to do it. The user experience is so broken that it's baffling that anyone would find it acceptable. Everything
Aaron Blake: 4 Takeaways From the New Dominion-Fox Lawsuit Documents [Tucker] Carlson responded: “All of them fail. What he’s good at is destroying things. He’s the undisputed world champion of that. He could easily destroy us if we play it wrong. It’s so obvious.” And: Two days
Benj Edwards: In Paris Demo, Google Scrambles to Counter ChatGPT but Ends Up Embarrassing Itself On Wednesday, Google held a highly anticipated press conference from Paris that did not deliver the decisive move against ChatGPT and the Microsoft-OpenAI partnership that many pundits expected. Instead, Google ran through a collection of
Barbara Krasnoff: Where Are the Good Android Apps for Mastodon? Currently, the one that’s recommended most often seems to be Tusky, but I’ve tried that, and while it looks like a decent app, it just doesn’t do it for me. There are several others out there, some
Masto.host: RE: Mastodon Media Storage When you or another user in your server follows a remote user, from that moment on, all new posts from that remote user start to federate with your server. By federate, you can think of a copy of those posts are stored in the