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A game about an IKEA Billy bookcase. Original tweet here

This is the best playground I've seen for seeing how all of the pieces of image-based AI can play with each other to create a very, very impressive output.


Here’s our guide to their favorite strategies for asking a chatbot to help with explaining, writing and brainstorming. Just select a topic and follow along.

It's very, very interactive (to the detriment of casual experience, I think), but it does a great job showing you examples of how different types of prompts might affect the output.

According to Betteridge's law of headlines:

Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.

Gannett was publishing AI-generated sports stories in its local markets, and they were awful. Go read the story, it gives you plenty of threads to pull at to find examples of failure.

Companies like Narrative Science and tools like Heliograf were the historical harbingers of this trend, but all of their auto-generated content was based on templates.

For example, we could write a sentence about who won by comparing the scores of the two teams:

[if team1_score > team2_score]
  [team1_name] beat [team2_name] [team1_score] to [team2_score].
[else]
  [team2_name] beat [team1_name] [team2_score] to [team1_score].

That's 100% fake code, but the idea is that everything was about filling in the blanks, not about generating novel content. With the modern batch of generative AI tools, you're turning the AI loose on the data and letting it figure out what's important and what's not, along with exactly how to phrase everything.

With the unpredictable nature of these tools, it's not a terribly good idea, and I'm certain we'll continue to see more screw-ups of this sort.

We perfected the technology years ago!! Why can't we just have templates back!!

This "we know the image is real" stuff is such a joke for ten thousand reasons. Read the comments to hopefully potentially maybe be converted to team "this concept is a waste of time."

A loooong discussion about whether AI is a wealth concentrator or a distributor. Original link to (only slightly related) blog post here, top comment:

AI will have on artists the same impact that Spotify had on the music industry that is, it will kill any revenue flow for anyone outside of the publishers and big artists/players.

404 is a newly-founded outlet by former members of VICE's Motherboard and it is wild and amazing.

Top comment:

Hugging Face is early in the Silicon Valley enshittification cycle - currently burning VC money being incredibly good to it's users. Next would be shifting that value to its business customers. Then clawing back and squeezing as much value as possible from those. Then collapse.

I recommend Hugging Face every second of my life, but as the VC money pours in you can just see – in the base case scenario – the gates lifting and vendor lock in manifesting :(

I was excited about this when I first read it, but now two days later I'm really feeling this is just another "prompt engineering is great!" post? Maybe inspo will strike me on the third read-through.