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The Shifting Value Proposition in the AI Era

As AI automates routine, benchmarkable tasks, the human qualities that are hardest to specify and replace—judgment, taste, and agency—become the most valuable.

December 24, 2025

Correction Penalty - The Plane of Infinite Tweaking

AI will get you 80% there but then you're tweaking it for infinite amount of time. If you're using a very specific tool you have a much better chance of a predictable finish.

December 1, 2025

AI Ecosystem Capital Flows (updated)

It's likely this infographic will need to be updated weekly - here is version 3.0 from Nov.23.2025. Added in Foxconn and Intuit in this version.

November 20, 2025

Meta's Mind-Reading AI Sparks Urgent Call for Brain Data Privacy

A new urgency to protect brain data has emerged after tech giant Meta developed an AI system that can reconstruct visual images from a person's brain activity in real time.

November 13, 2025

Link blogging :: newsfeeds.net

Stood up newsfeeds.net for links - A clean, concise, curated source for links. Find it at newsfeeds.net

October 18, 2025

Memetic Lexicon

Memetic behavior does not share language across sectors but boy does it have presence. Resistance + Critical thinking boxes are defense the others offense to...

October 7, 2025

Rothko / Still

"I told Rothko on several occasions that he should abandon such nonsense, forget this myth thing, which he was tying up with the Greeks, . . . and his fuzzy...

September 30, 2025

How consciousness edits the universe

more from the thinking around - stories are code, code is lore -line of thinking - when lore become fact or as I like to say - printing the legend. The...

September 22, 2025

New places

A couple of weeks ago my productivity hit a boost by deploying the agents that I scoped to specific tasks in unity. Note the security-auditor - coding or...

September 21, 2025

stories are code, code is lore 

stories are code, code is lore As a part of my current work on an instrument to help tell stories better. I've been reading a lot of books that contain the...

September 21, 2025

 SELLING MY LIFE / NOSTALGIA MARKET

September 19 – October 19, 2024 This installation blurs the lines between private sanctuary and public marketplace, inviting visitors to rediscover the gallery...

September 17, 2025

Grace Notes

THE GREAT JOY IN THINGS THAT ARE SAD A Documentary Theatre Piece Structure: Three interwoven timelines presented simultaneously on stage: - 1994: The night of...

September 11, 2025

Mediaeater Digest August

Linkblog — Early September 2025 AI, Tech & Misuse Anthropic: Detecting and Countering Misuse (Aug 2025) DeepMind SynthID ch.at – lightweight LLM chat service...

September 2, 2025

stybd

Excited to share more --- coming out of alpha release - it's official stybd.com

July 31, 2025

Flinching

The Coldplay concert video perfectly illustrating the public is now complicit participating in the surveillance state. As we race to the bottom becoming the...

July 29, 2025

Moving Men To Action

July 29, 2025

AI Executive Orders: Thought Control by Procurement

On July 23rd, the Trump administration issued a series of executive orders on artificial intelligence that amount to a sweeping federal power grab. These...

July 24, 2025

Mediaeater Digest July 24.2025

Regulation by Deal Comes to Higher Edhttps://balkin.blogspot.com/2025/07/regulation-by-deal-comes-to-higher-ed.html Czech president signs law criminalising...

July 24, 2025

Generational Worldviews: An Anthropological Lens on Economic and Political Shifts

July 8, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

Fictional K-pop bands beat BTS and Blackpink in US chartshttps://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clyl1zyv1y2o AI Company Anthropic Defends Against (Some) Copyright...

July 7, 2025

Visibility and Control: Tools in Relation to Government Power

US Gov officials create searchable national citizenship database. Homeland security and Doge merge immigration data with social security to create index it...

July 5, 2025

WNYU New Afternoon Show Chart for June 2025

Turnstile – "I CARE"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnYzk4nsJAo Big Thief – "Incomprehensible" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSqYsmmfbCI El Michels Affair &...

July 5, 2025

Humans Are Having Problems With Humans Being Humans

In an age of technological complexity, global interdependence, and ideological polarization, humanity seems increasingly at odds with its own nature. The...

July 4, 2025

WNYU May 2025 Top 10 Tracks

Started Compiling My Own Charts For decades, WNYU's New Afternoon Show (NAS) has been one of the best radio programs in the country. Unfortunately, it's been...

June 22, 2025

Boards of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy

Dayvan Cowboy (Odd Nosdam Remix) is a melancholic song by Boards of Canada with a tempo of 78 BPM. It can also be used double-time at 156 BPM. The track runs 9...

June 21, 2025

The Perfect Crime: When AI Completed Photography's Murder of Reality

Jean Baudrillard died in 2007, just as Instagram was born. He never saw his theories about photography and simulation play out in real time, but he predicted...

June 9, 2025

AI Personas Influence Map

June 8, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

AI Changes Everythinghttps://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/6/4/changes/ My AI Skeptic Friends Are All Nutshttps://fly.io/blog/youre-all-nuts/ Broadcast...

June 8, 2025

The rush to outputs

The rush to outputs diminishes intentionality in creative works and reduces opportunities for the serendipitous discoveries that often occur during dev.

June 8, 2025

Copyright Updates

“There are some people who are, like, ‘all AI art is terrible’, but then there’s a lot of artists who are, like, ‘this is the best tool ever, it’s like the...

May 13, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No 119

Slate Auto https://www.slate.auto/ Project Kuiper https://www.aboutamazon.com/what-we-do/devices-services/project-kuiper LLMs and World Models, Part 2 Evidence...

April 29, 2025

Securing Agentic AI Systems

As agentic AI systems become more prevalent and powerful, the need for robust security frameworks is critical. Autonomous systems require specialized...

April 27, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

Tips and tricks that have proven effective for using Claude Code https://www.anthropic.com/engineering/claude-code-best-practices Anthropic's educational...

April 24, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Monday 4.21

The Effect of Deactivating Facebook and Instagram on Users’ Emotional State https://www.nber.org/system/files/working_papers/w33697/w33697.pdf OpenAI Is A...

April 21, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Weekend Edition

Deafening Silence From The Cybersecurity Industry https://www.forbes.com/sites/tonybradley/2025/04/16/deafening-silence-from-the-cybersecurity-industry/ Where...

April 19, 2025

AI Alignment

While Altman speaks about respecting creative work and developing new models for compensation, OpenAI is simultaneously arguing in court cases that their use...

April 16, 2025

Sunday Shift Log

Entertainment Shifts Terminating the AI vs. Hollywood Tropes https://spyglass.org/ai-vs-hollywood-james-cameron/ AI driving a shift in music that has all the...

April 13, 2025

Mediaeater Digest - Weekend Edition

How TikTok’s Parent, ByteDance, Became an A.I. Powerhouse ByteDance uses its 1 billion users' data to fuel its AI growth, after investing $11B in 2024....

April 12, 2025

AI Music Generation through Chain-of-Thought Prompting

Teaching AI to Think Before It Plays Instead of predicting sound one token at a time, it introduces a "chain of musical thought" — a planning stage where the...

April 10, 2025

The Crisis of Context: Why You Can No Longer Trust the Narrative

Or, The death of Necessary Factual and Normative Context. I've watched social media and blogging transform over the years, shifting from relatively open spaces...

April 8, 2025

Mediaeater Digest April 5th, 2025

DOGE Is Planning a Hackathon at the IRS. It Wants Easier Access to Taxpayer Data https://www.wired.com/story/doge-hackathon-irs-data-palantir/ AI giants reject...

April 5, 2025

Travel OPSEC - Phone Security for Border Crossings

Device Preparation Consider using a burner phone (buy a cheap phone at your destination) For iPhones, enable Lockdown Mode, especially for overseas travel Put...

April 5, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Weekend Edition.

An interactive demo for developers to try the new text-to-speech model in the OpenAI API. https://www.openai.fm/ Introducing next-generation audio models in...

March 22, 2025

Mediaeater Digest Vol 31, No. 76

The emergent agentic marketplace has many facets, most interesting to me right now is. ... Agent Intent and Inference. Agent Intent and Inference refers to the...

March 17, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

AI-generated recordings in music streaming services Sony Music says over 75,000 items removed in battle against AI deepfakes. Hundreds of your Warner Bros DVDs...

March 11, 2025

AI + Critical Thinking

This Microsoft study surveyed 319 workers to investigate how using generative AI tools like ChatGPT affects critical thinking. They found that while AI can...

February 16, 2025

The Emergence of Deceptive Behaviors in LLMs

The Emergent "Language of Deception" and the Need for a Methodology to Determine Large Language Models' Deception Levels LLMs are not merely producing errors...

February 10, 2025

Untitled Post

List of Consumer Reporting Companies related reading. Everyone knows your location: tracking myself down through in-app ads Links to archived versions of every...

February 4, 2025

Mediaeater Digest

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence, Part 2: Copyrightability Report. (AI in the mix) On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big?...

January 30, 2025

Measuring LLM models ability to deceive.

Seriously who is measuring llm models ability to deceive? They actively practice it. Deception Scores are needed now. Self assigned Chatgpt deception ranking 5...

January 29, 2025

Automotive Data

Tesla - your public data, theirs, not yours. Same for that lock. "The sheriff said Tesla CEO Elon Musk helped the investigation by having the truck unlocked...

January 4, 2025

Strengthen Your Networks

A Fresh Start for 2025: Building Habits That Matter The New Year acts as a nice cosmic reset. I love it for creating habits, serialization of creative efforts...

January 3, 2025

Multi-Modal Models

Multi Model Models. from https://huggingface.co/collections/merve/mit-talk-31-10-papers-671f6a16e156f77739820c89 (MIT Talk 31/10 Papers) NVLM: Describes images...

October 28, 2024

Mapping Data Surveillance Infrastructure : US

Audio narrative for this datamap of US (click for full view)

October 3, 2024

AI Media Production Resources

Classification of Moving Visual Media: Resource: Classification of Moving Visual Media Summary: This article categorizes visual media into traditional,...

August 26, 2024

AI in Film and Video Production: A Incomplete Glossary of Terms.

AI in Film and Video Production: A Incomplete Glossary of Terms. (RFC) REQUEST FOR COMMENTS This glossary provides definitions and examples of key AI terms...

August 24, 2024

MED Weekend Edition

FaceTune.ai What you get when you combine the junk science of emotion recognition and ai music creation. Did not have the ven of music creation and human...

August 17, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 227

Inside the "3 Billion People" National Public Data Breach (troy hunt) Script-kidding the Bitcoin blockchain (ccc.de) CONCORD vs.ANTHROPIC PBC, Defendant (pdf)...

August 14, 2024

Information and Knowledge Yield Loss Across Transcoding Eras

As someone who's lived through the mind numbing pace of technological change, I've been fascinated by how we've transformed the way we store, share, and...

August 10, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 223

How Mastercard sells its ‘gold mine’ of transaction data (reddit) AI Comes for Music (dancohen) How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop (honest-broker) I...

August 10, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 219

Neuralink second implant patient working well (twitter) DARPA semanticforensics.com DEF CON 32 Home Page Drake 100gigs.org (music 2024) Amazon Topics...

August 6, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 215

Google - How we're addressing explicit fake content in Search Stability AI - Introducing Stable Fast 3D: Meta - Second Quarter 2024 Results Follow Up Call Suno...

August 2, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 211

Microsoft technical breakdown of CrowdStrike incident (msft) Web-check: All-in-one OSINT tool for analysing any website (github) Kamala-holding-vinyls (glitch)...

July 29, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 209

Copyright Traps for LLMs (github) AI start-up Anthropic accused of ‘egregious’ data scraping (ft) Media Bias Detector (mediabiasdector) Opt out of x...

July 27, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 207

CrowdStrike will be liable for damages in France, based on the OVH precedent Apple Maps on the web launches in beta The moral bankruptcy of Marc Andreessen and...

July 25, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.206

Alphabet Announces Second Quarter 2024 Results (abc.xyz) Meta just released Llama 3.1 405B (zuck interview) Open Source AI Is the Path Forward (meta) WWDC 2024...

July 24, 2024

4D Reconstruction from a Single Video

Shape of Motion: 4D Reconstruction from a Single Video MoSca: Dynamic Gaussian Fusion from Casual Videos via 4D Motion Scaffolds Dynamic Gaussian Marbles for...

July 23, 2024

A Weekend of Letting Go

This weekend marked two significant firsts in my life, both involving parting with cherished possessions. Photograph Sale I sold a photograph that had adorned...

July 22, 2024

Making Music

Suno https://www.suno.ai/ Creates complete songs from text prompts, including lyrics and vocals Brev.ai https://brev.ai/ AI Music Generator Free Online...

July 22, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 203

Gutenberg’s message to the AI era (Brookings) A second effect of AI is its expansion of already existent digital era abuses, such as privacy, competition,...

July 21, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.199

Privacy OpSec Company squanders 3.6 billion people's locations in Germany Data traders are spreading the locations of people in Germany – sometimes even for...

July 17, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.195

Today: HOPE Schedule and streams Hackers on Planet Earth NYC HOPE Deep Fakes HOPE in memoriam (hard to look at that line up of hacker brothers gone, grateful...

July 13, 2024

Tools To Write A Better Future (con't)

I was reading Robin Sloan's new book Moonbound and came across this text which speaks to writing ourselves a better future. Durga laughed. "What I mean is—we...

July 12, 2024

Summer Reading (con't)

A Year on Earth with Mr. Hell: by Young Kim The Atomic Human by Neil D. Lawrence The AI Mirror by Vallor (published by Oxford) Dark Wire by Joseph Cox When the...

July 9, 2024

We want to see your work

OpenAI to the NYT show us your reporters notes we want to see if its even copyrightable. NYT responds, “given the wildly improper scope of this request, one...

July 5, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.185 (video editing tools)

AI, Synthetic Data & Media Transcript: Robo DJ — YouTube invests in AI-generated music (ft) "So YouTube is trying to make it bigger and make it a proper...

July 3, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No.181

The AI we could have had (ft) But the rebels at the lab thought this kind of automation was the antithesis of true responsiveness. They saw human relations,...

June 29, 2024

Tools to realize and render a better future

"And when I opened the curtains they were taking the set away and packing up for the day, the cameras and lights turned off. ; The darkness replaced with strip...

June 27, 2024

Suno + Udio Lawsuits

What happens to music, happens to everyone. Suno: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24776034/1.pdf Udio:...

June 25, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 173

Seeing Like A Network- Dark Forests, Dense Networks ( strangeloopcanon.com ) culture is composed of the communication patterns, behaviours, and symbols that...

June 21, 2024

This Weeks Model

Audioseal (meta) Cutting-edge audio manipulation toolkit. Florence (msft) Microsoft's advanced conversational AI. Open-Sora v1.2 (github) Community-driven...

June 19, 2024

Licensing Deals for Dataset Creation

It's encouraging to see that the market is moving towards licensing deals for dataset creation, but the current model, where tech companies make one-time...

June 18, 2024

Summer Reading

Reading list so far this summer. (first half of summer ) see (part 2, end of summer) All Fours - Miranda July Co-Intelligence - Ethan Mollusk The Eye Of The...

June 18, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 68

NYT workplace advice columnist brings it - Goodbye Work Friends….”Still, in my heart of hearts, I always wanted to tell you to quit your job. Negotiate for the...

June 16, 2024

Synthetic Media - Luma

Luma test - 5 clips 5 seconds each from prompts, concatenated and added a 60-Second Audio Clip [video width="1360" height="752"...

June 14, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 163

States Take Up A.I. Regulation Amid Federal Standstill (nyt) State lawmakers across the country have proposed nearly 400 new laws on A.I. in recent months,...

June 11, 2024

Generative AI Video: Embracing Interoperability and Open-Source Tools (Clapper AI)

Pointing out an important AI video opportunity: Open source script to screen AI video editor Clapper AI. This project and format is singular in the market....

June 10, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 159

YouTube Copyright Transparency Report (youtube) paid out over $70 billion to creators, artists, and media companies in recent years, and it boasts over 100...

June 7, 2024

Capital

The special skill of each individual machine-operator, who has now been deprived of all significance, vanishes as an infinitesimal quantity in the face of the...

June 6, 2024

Recommended reading

Introducing Stable Audio Open - An Open Source Model for Audio Samples and Sound Design (stablityai) Stable Audio Open is an open source text-to-audio model...

June 6, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol.30, No. 151

Announcing Showrunner (The Simulation) We believe the future is a mix of game & movie. Simulations powering 1000s of Truman Shows populated by interactive AI...

May 31, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol. 30, No. 149

Taxonomy of Human Rights Risks - Connected to Generative AI this document explores human rights risks stemming from the development, deployment, and use of...

May 28, 2024

Mediaeater Digest Vol 30, No. 144

Meta AI chief says large language models will not reach human intelligence. (FT) At an event in London on Tuesday, DeepMind’s chief Sir Demis Hassabis said...

May 23, 2024

On device

When Google announces it can monitor phone conversations for hostile scams, and Microsoft claims it can search everything you've ever touched on your computer,...

May 21, 2024

MED Vol.30, No. 139

Songs I listened to compiling this: Quarters of Change - Turn It Away (youtube) Rosie Tucker - All My Exes Live In Vortexes (youtube) Remi Wolf - Cinderella...

May 18, 2024

OpenAI Spring Update, Google IO 

OpenAI Spring Update Google IO

May 15, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.132

Random notes... Music is always first, always. Surviving the first wave of digital disruption on the first beachfront gave me the tools needed to understand...

May 11, 2024

Sora, Runway, Pika FT Market Test

FT does a video a/b test w/SORA and Runway and Pika labs (FT)

May 1, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.121

News Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says (arstech) Will An AI Movie Win An Oscar Within Seven Years? (forbes) Industry Google...

April 30, 2024

Playgrounds

Perplexity Lab Free LLM Playground HuggingChat Free LLM Playground Together AI LLM Playground Vercel AI Free LLM Playground Groq Free LLM Playground Fireworks...

April 28, 2024

DHS / AI and open-source technology

Over 20 Technology and Critical Infrastructure Executives, Civil Rights Leaders, Academics, and Policymakers Join New DHS Artificial Intelligence Safety and...

April 27, 2024

LLM's From Skill to Proficiency 

Early on, LLMs had a reputation for laziness, often stopping short of a complete answer or list. But that final 10% is crucial – it's the difference between...

April 27, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.117

Survey reveals translators and illustrators losing work to AI (societyofauthors) FCC Restores Net Neutrality (fcc) Start Your Own ISP (startyourownisp) A look...

April 26, 2024

MED Vol. 30, No. 116

Personal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models (medium) Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call...

April 25, 2024

MED Vol. 30, No. 110

We announce the successful editing of DNA in human cells with gene editors (x post) Generative A.I. Arrives in the Gene Editing World of CRISPR (nyt)...

April 23, 2024

Inference + Intent

AIML - Inference and intent intent. - 1 : a usually clearly formulated or planned intention : AIM the director's intent 2 a : the act or fact of intending :...

April 18, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.109

Llama 3 The Life and Death of Hollywood High-speed trader Jane Street raked in $4.4bn at start of 2024 LF AI & Data Foundation Launches Open Platform for...

April 18, 2024

Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations

- Infinity and Beyond: SHOW-1 and Showrunner Agents in Multi-Agent Simulations - ChatGPT Can Predict the Future when it Tells Stories Set in the Future About...

April 15, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.101

Coachella Streams (youtube) MusicGen Web (huggingface) Infinity AI. (huggingface) Adobe Is Buying Videos for $3 Per Minute to Build AI Model (bloomberg) Report...

April 11, 2024

Arthur Jafa: BLACK POWER TOOL AND DIE TRYNIG

As a part of Arthur Jafa: BLACK POWER TOOL AND DIE TRYNIG on now at 52 Walker there is film. It has a bit of Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes Soul Train...

April 10, 2024

Draft: Data Privacy Legislation - Deep Dive

House Committee on Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers (R-WA) and Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Chair Maria Cantwell...

April 8, 2024

Marketing April 2024

YZY TikTok advert - - This is what a deepfake being held hostage and made to read a url looks like. Unclear whos body it is and if it was stolen. [video...

April 8, 2024

M.E.D. Vol 30, No. 98

How Tech Giants Cut Corners to Harvest Data for A.I. YouTube's CEO says that OpenAI training Sora with YouTube videos would violate YouTube's ToS, and Google...

April 7, 2024

CityGaussian: Real-time High-quality Large-Scale Scene Rendering with Gaussians

CityGaussian dekuliutesla.github.io/cityg… Video composites are quite disorienting - the inverse of that OSINT feeling. Like when a studio shoots a movie about...

April 2, 2024

OpenAI’s comment to the NTIA on open model weights

OpenAI’s comment to the NTIA on open model weights: This comment was submitted by OpenAI in response to NTIA’s March 2024 Request for Information on Dual-Use...

April 2, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.87

FACT SHEET: OMB Policy to Advance Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management in Federal Agencies’ Use of Artificial Intelligence (whitehouse.gov) Artificial...

March 28, 2024

MED Vol. 30, No. 83

Info How Big Tech is winning the AI talent war (FT) Elon Musk’s X Needs Creators, but They Don’t Need (WSJ) Gov. Lee Signs ELVIS Act Into Law (tn.gov) HB2091...

March 23, 2024

Open Models

Open-source AI is important because it.... Fosters innovation and broad participation - Open-source AI allows developers and researchers globally to...

March 20, 2024

Compensation - The Line of Actual Control

The EU just passed a major AI law, China's taking one stance on AI-generated art, and Japan's trying to protect creators. Lawsuits abound! Here a quick round...

March 16, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.75

Automakers Are Sharing Consumers’ Driving Behavior With Insurance Companies (NYT) LexisNexis, which generates consumer risk profiles for the insurers, knew...

March 15, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.73

Artificial Intelligence Act: MEPs adopt landmark law (europa.eu) Commission presents new initiatives for digital infrastructures of tomorrow (europa.eu) Music...

March 14, 2024

MED Vol 30 No. 71

A generalist AI agent for 3D virtual environments (deepmind) Bad Bunny Lawsuit (axios) Pain and Suffering (NVDA corp culture) H.R. 7521 TikTok Bill...

March 12, 2024

MED Vol.30, No.63

Rethinking Privacy in the AI Era: Policy Provocations for a Data-Centric World. (HAI/Stanford) Open Sora plan (Github) The App Store, Spotify, and Europe’s...

March 4, 2024

Alibaba Emote Portrait Alive

Character: Leonardo Wilhelm DiCaprio Vocal Source: EMINEM - Godzilla (FT. Juice WRLD) Cover Input a single reference image and the vocal audio... [video...

February 29, 2024

Artificial Intelligence Policy Act - Enacted (UT)

AI Utah Law as of May 1. 2024 ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AMENDMENTS 2024 GENERAL SESSION STATE OF UTAH The law introduces the Artificial Intelligence Policy Act,...

February 29, 2024

MED Vol.30, No. 55

Superstars or Black Holes: Are Tech Clusters Causing Stagnation? What 2026 looks like (from 6th Aug., 2021) How artists are fighting generative AI Will AI...

February 24, 2024

FTC: Rule on Impersonation of Individuals

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC or Commission) requests public comment on its proposal to amend the trade regulation rule entitled Rule on Impersonation of...

February 20, 2024

Current Media Landscape

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February 13, 2024

Embodied, Perceptive, Realtime AI

Over the past couple of months I found myself thinking about what does Realtime AI looks like in practice. Somewhere between the swarm behavior that takes...

February 13, 2024

Reading on: Deepfakes, Watermarks, Copyright and the Generative AI Supply Chain and Trademark Law

AI companies agree to limit election ‘deepfakes’ but fall short of ban (wapo) Google, Microsoft, OpenAI, Meta, TikTok and Adobe developed an accord to respond...

February 13, 2024

Art+Technology: Raphaela Vogel

In the Expanded Penalty Box: Did You Happen to See the Most Beautiful Fox? January 11 – February 17, 2024 Petzel, NYC Petzel is pleased to present In the...

February 1, 2024

Content, Reach and Manipulated Media

Watermarks and audit trails are not a solution to manipulated media. Face swapping does not care about provenance, it cares about reach. Standards being put...

January 29, 2024

Legal & Legislative AI Tracker

MAIN SEQUENCE, LTD., JEROLD HAMZA as executor for the ESTATE OF GEORGE CARLIN, andJEROLD HAMZA in his individual capacity, Plaintiffs, v. DUDESY, LLC, WILL...

January 26, 2024

EU AI Act Final Text

Proposal for a REGULATION OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND OF THE COUNCIL LAYING DOWN HARMONISED RULES ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE ACT)...

January 23, 2024

M.E.D. Vol. 30 No. 15

WEF Panel - The Expanding Universe of Generative Models - Speakers: Yann LeCun, Nicholas Thompson, Kai-Fu Lee, Daphne Koller, Andrew Ng, Aidan Gomez Artificial...

January 15, 2024

Genuary Art: Generative Coding Challenge

It's Genuary! The annual event that brings together artists, coders, and enthusiasts of generative art from around the globe. It focuses on the creation of art...

January 12, 2024

Music Streaming 2023 Reports - No Tail, No Royalties

158 million tracks had 1,000 plays or fewer on music streaming services last year. 45 million had no plays at all. From Entertainment Industry Trend Reports -...

January 12, 2024

AI Media Assets - Safe Storage

Highlighted the provision for safe storage of voice assets SAG-AFTRA Signs Deal With Voiceover Studio for AI Use in Video Games Editors note: Safe storage of...

January 10, 2024

Info-Sec: Adversarial Machine Learning

NIST Identifies Types of Cyberattacks That Manipulate Behavior of AI Systems [caption id="attachment_7474" align="alignleft" width="650"] An AI system can...

January 6, 2024

Unpacking the AI Shift: Transformative vs Evolutional

AI: Transformative vs Evolutional In the world of artificial intelligence (AI), including machine learning (ML), large language models like GPT, and image...

January 2, 2024

Media Authenticity: Photography Secure Capture Technology, Synthetic Media Watermarking

A quick roundup of authentication and watermarking initiatives. The quest for the real image: Leica camera sales are up 10x over the last decade...

January 2, 2024

Public Domain Day 2024

Public Domain Day 2024 Films that enter the public domain today include: Steamboat Willie and Plane Crazy (the silent version) (directed by Walt Disney and Ub...

January 1, 2024

Unpacking the AI Shift: Copyright, Disinformation, and the Future of News

The subversion of trust creates significant risk 2024 promises to unpack the some implications of the AI shift, with realizations and understandings about its...

December 30, 2023

Privacy: Google Maps Location Data

This data is dangerous, good to see the shift to device, makes geo-fence requests moot...

December 14, 2023

Privacy: EU Artificial Intelligence Act

Artificial Intelligence Act :: Banned applications Recognizing the potential threat to citizens’ rights and democracy posed by certain applications of AI, the...

December 9, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: Dark Patterns, Algorithm Ethics, Facial Recognition and the FTC

This digital age of ours has consumers facing a deluge of potential harms ranging from privacy invasions to deceptive practices. Being online is like a dance...

November 22, 2023

Synthetic Media: AI SAG-AFTRA Deal Points

From this document: /AIFAQs.pdf Big Picture Questions AI Ban on Projects: AI not completely banned; focus on setting guardrails around its use. Training AI on...

November 22, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: The Weaponization of Audio and Video

[video width="1138" height="640" mp4="/imgs/wp-content/uploads/2023/11/Post.mp4"][/video] The world of audio and visual (A/V) media has...

November 21, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: Music Industry, Transforming the future of music creation: Dream Track, Lyria

Google DeepMind, in partnership with YouTube, has announced Lyria, an AI music generation model, and two AI experiments: Dream Track and Music AI tools. Lyria...

November 17, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: YouTube AI Standards and Practices

Generative AI's Potential and Responsibility: YouTube acknowledges the creative potential of generative AI but also its responsibility to protect the...

November 15, 2023

Synthetic Media: Content Creation Tools

In the ever-evolving landscape of AI-driven media production, a new era of multi-modal generative AI is unfolding, giving rise to a vibrant ecosystem. Within...

November 14, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: AI Current Snapshot

In an era where open models are accelerating in utility OpenAI moves to platform model and offerings to lock-in the ecosystem during its first Developer Day....

November 7, 2023

Arts: Felix Morello Circles

[gallery ids="7331,7332,7333"] Felix Morello circles You find them around the Village if you are lucky, in Washington Square Park for a few ephemeral days,...

October 30, 2023

Synthetic Media: Unprompted

October 30, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: US AI EO

President Biden has issued an Executive Order aimed at advancing the safe, secure, and trustworthy development of artificial intelligence (AI) in the United...

October 30, 2023

How To: Open AI Chat GPT Custom Instructions

This instruction set has been utility: How would you like ChatGPT to respond? Avoid indicating you're an Al. Omit expressions of remorse or apology. Prioritize...

September 30, 2023

Classification of Moving Visual Media

Classification of Moving Visual Media September 2023 Mark Ghuneim Why: Our mediascape which was static for decades is now exploding with modalities. What: is a...

September 12, 2023

AI-14 Harmonies + Copyright Law

Earlier this year, I published a list of the 14 modalities of AI in song creation. (below list) This name was inspired by the idea of harmonies, which are a...

August 25, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: /

In early March of this year I started talking about the importance of implementing "robots.txt" and the "nofollow" attributes because the great AI transcoding...

August 24, 2023

Synthetic city

AI= surveillance, by definition is predatory. This, not that. This text not that text. this image not that/etc. That said its there for the subverting. To turn...

August 16, 2023

Generative AI News

This USCO office - Comic book “Zarya of the Dawn,” recent decision by the USCO shows the challenges that may be faced by those seeking copyright protection for...

August 15, 2023

Navigating the Digital Maze: From Prompts to Outputs: Safeguarding Interests in Generative AI Agreements

Some Thoughts on Generative AI Best Practices... Understand Generative AI: Recognize that generative AI identifies patterns in training data to produce new...

August 14, 2023

Laziness as a Driver in AI: The Interplay of Nudging and Boosting

Nudging, Boosting, and Self-Nudging Behavioral science interventions, with their diverse nature, can be classified in various ways, such as through UCL’s...

August 14, 2023

Video Hallucinations

https://youtube.com/shorts/89G-zvnYD-I?feature=share

August 10, 2023

AI Training data and video conference software

"Just a heads up, Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out. (Technically, you can delete your data later, but the training has been...

August 7, 2023

Challenges and Considerations in AI Service Pricing and Adoption

If you are running an AI service, whether large or small, one must address the nexus of the high compute costs and the expensive nature of providing such...

July 31, 2023

B&C Networks

In another timeline we would guide to an upcoming media m&a landscape. That implies demand. If what Iger, Redstone and others are saying now come to manifest...

July 27, 2023

Hype Cycle for Artificial Intelligence, 2023

Generative artificial intelligence and ChatGPT have elevated AI discussions to new levels, pushing interest to boardrooms and heads of state alike. Data and...

July 23, 2023

Links from early surf set

Hugging Face's website that allows users to explore Llama v2, a large language model, with TGI (Transformers for Interactive Generation) demos. Try running it...

July 20, 2023

Pan, tilt, generate...

In another lifetime, I edited video on 3/4 inch media on Sony RM-440 editing machines. If we wanted something like this prompt generates we had to do a table...

July 9, 2023

AI round-up security, economics, scraping, open-source, video generation

Open Letter from Security and Privacy Researchers in relation to the Online Safety Bill The economic potential of generative AI: The next productivity frontier...

July 5, 2023

META’s take on Twitter

META’s take on Twitter Meta has a long history of mimicking products and product features of competitors. Most if not all of the efforts have been met with...

July 5, 2023

Links July 4th

Links from today... Voice actors are discovering that decades-old contracts have given companies the right to use their voices to train AI models that compete...

July 4, 2023

Time traveler

Time traveler = Nam June Paik, Image - Triangle, Trinity 1998 One of the Three mixed media prints (silkscreen and offset) Each print 40 x 50 cm (15¾ x 19¾")

July 3, 2023

The week in AI

To say the pace of this sector is moving fast is an understatement : Links to key advances, moves and developments. Microsoft has integrated AI-powered...

July 2, 2023

Exploring the Modalities of AI in Song Creation

"AI-14 Harmonies" for the 14 modalities involving AI in song creation (named for the fourteen modalities of AI in song creation. Combing the number of...

June 21, 2023

Privacy preservation tactics using AI services

Use local models first Using AI at a local level essentially means running AI models on your own hardware, rather than relying on cloud-based services. This...

June 21, 2023

Generative AI Reading List

This weeks reading list.... DeepMind : Model evaluation for extreme risks From Machine Learning to Autonomous Intelligence Towards Machines that can Learn,...

May 26, 2023

Unique Characteristics of Generative AI: Exploring the Creative Medium

Unique Characteristics of Generative AI: Exploring the Creative Medium Generative AI is a creative medium with unique characteristics, including...

May 7, 2023

Entertainment Manufacturing: Navigating the Crossroads of Creativity and Compensation

When we speak of America as a manufacturing nation, it's not just about the steel, cars, or technology we produce. It's also about our exceptional ability to...

May 3, 2023

Happiness POV

Reading this newsletter last week Happiness is a 2x2 Matrix I came across this video Interview with Hillel Einhorn on happiness. "Now, there are some...

May 3, 2023

Models and Modalities

Examples of generative Al models from some of the early providers show there are many options available for each modality, several of which are open source.

May 3, 2023

The Luring Test: AI and the Engineering of Consumer Trust

In "The Luring Test: AI and the Engineering of Consumer Trust", Michael Atleson, an Attorney at the FTC Division of Advertising Practices, dropped some...

May 3, 2023

European Parliament Members Reach Provisional Agreement on Groundbreaking AI Act

Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have provisionally agreed on the world's first rulebook for artificial intelligence (AI), known as the AI Act. This...

April 30, 2023

AI risk regulation frameworks:

AI risk regulation frameworks: Singapore’s Model AI Governance Framework: Soft law focused on explainable, transparent, and human-centric AI decision-making....

April 20, 2023

Browsing Shift

There are volumes to be written on the shift in browsing and publishers new challenges around IP - but this is not that. A fastshort observation about the...

April 8, 2023

Text to Entertainment

This is my current area focus if you're digging here please get in touch. I am excited about the potential of this medium to offer meaningful and captivating...

April 8, 2023

Copyright and Artificial Intelligence

The Copyright Office has issued a new policy statement regarding the registration of works containing material generated by artificial intelligence (AI)....

March 18, 2023

The Intersection of Technology and Information Theory

Abstract: This paper explores the alignment of digital interfaces with our existing innate encoding and decoding of information. The focus is on "front door"...

February 24, 2023

Generative Entertainment Milestones

Generative Entertainment Milestones In chronological order. Milestones 1956: The first computer-generated music is created by an IBM computer in Australia....

February 16, 2023

All Your Base is Ours

Internet trend: The frontend is becoming the backend AI is leading to a transformation of the internet as a whole, turning it into a powerful computational...

February 9, 2023

Gordon Matta-Clark Conical Intersect, 1975

Gordon Matta-Clark Conical Intersect, 1975 As the papers and models explode around generative means to create art, it feels very much like the GMC still,...

February 4, 2023

MusicLM: Generating Music From Text 

MusicLM: Generating Music From Text "We introduce MusicLM, a model generating high-fidelity music from text descriptions such as "a calming violin melody...

January 27, 2023

Internet Trend: All your databases are ours

The frontend is becoming the backend to a new set of smart interfaces. The integration of advanced technologies such as AI acting as long polling to the corpus...

January 14, 2023

McLuhan '77

https://twitter.com/bfcarlson/status/1609988081825751041

January 9, 2023

Welcome to the unreal world of synthetic media

Where belief is suspended and provenance is unknown. Synthetic media is media created or modified by artificial intelligence and machine learning. Far from a...

January 4, 2023

Metrics for long term success

I spent a long time setting up engagement as the key performance indicator in social media. Advocating for the importance of engagement, publishing papers and...

January 3, 2023

Genuary

GENUARY is an artificially generated month of time where we build code that makes beautiful things. Genuary ., check the prompts and works from today

January 2, 2023

Seizing the means of prediction

The world is running on recommendation algorithms, and emergent predictive algorithms will be here soon to police it.

January 2, 2023

New public domain films

New public domain films. Metropolis Putting Pants on Phillip Nevada Spring Fever My Best Girl, Get Your Man King of Kings No Man’s Land Koko in 1999 The...

January 1, 2023

Closing out the year...

Sunday Jan 1 2023 is Public Domain Day. Works from 1927 fall into public domain. Metropolis, The Unknown (Chaney), The Jazz Singer. Awful AI is a curated list...

December 31, 2022

A return to value

The internet has gone through several stages of development, each marked by significant events and challenges. Web 1.0, the publishing era, was characterized...

December 28, 2022

Artists + AI

Cindy Sherman training an AI and using it to generate work. Comments from peers in both approval and speaking about experimenting themselves.

December 17, 2022

Watch this...

“Elon Musk, interviewed by Sarah Lacy, “A Fireside Chat with Elon Musk,” Santa Monica, CA, July 12, 2012,...

December 17, 2022

Frames of Reference....(recursive)

I know its candy– these exchanges...are some-thing. A response after it banged out an outline for me. (below) The last part about understanding thoughts over...

December 16, 2022

Monday Graphs

December 5, 2022

Ethical and privacy concerns: chatGPT's use

The use of chatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, raises a number of ethical and privacy concerns, including: Bias: chatGPT is trained on large...

December 3, 2022

Weekend reading list

Everything we know about chatgpt My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world Drowning in AI Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT Everyone’s Over Instagram...

December 3, 2022

Swarm behavior (cont't)

Back during the web 2.0 era circa 2011 I wrote and spoke about swarm behavior, specifically about attention swarms around media. As the AI era of the web...

November 22, 2022

The Generative Al Application Landscape

The Generative Al Application Landscape Link to full res image The Generative Al Application Landscape revised from sequoia capital. Which areas are the...

November 21, 2022

Cold Sunday in November 2022

Random notes and links ...and why I have been thinking a wiki or a Digital Garden might be useful Paul Graham "A person I have known for more than ten years,...

November 20, 2022

Prompt chaining, trees and playgrounds

The Near Future of AI is Action-Driven Excellent framing of the here and now and what's next. Link round up ML Safety Newsletter SkyPilot: Run ML and Data...

November 17, 2022

AGI Frames of References

IDEA - REF FRAMES - AGI WHAT: The impunity to look at a specific subject instance or occurrence that takes place and be able to understand it over time and...

November 16, 2022

AI Search

AI related search tools https://metaphor.systems https://galactica.org dust.tt

November 16, 2022

XR data flows + Privacy

FPF infographic visualizing how XR data flows work by exploring several use cases that XR technologies may support. The infographic highlights the kinds of...

October 31, 2022

Generative Technology (related reading)

Generative Technology related reading, resources November 2022 Generative Tech Begins [NFX] October 2022 List of over 100 generative AI startups [airtable by...

October 28, 2022

A new generation of music videos

Presenting "Robo Portraits", a collection of text-prompted music video shorts made with #stablediffussion & #mubert. 9 videos, each following the exact same...

October 9, 2022

New Music

Blood Orange "Something You Know" Four Songs (Domino Recording Co./RCA Records) 2022 Hand Habits, Amelia Meath "Under The Water" Greatest Weapon / Under The...

September 30, 2022

Generated Drives

Generative drives Nightdrive Drivey

September 23, 2022

Links and reports of note

Todays reports and news of note. Authoritative 150 page report by Tech Inquiry on government purchasing of Amazon/Google/Microsoft cloud services with a focus...

September 19, 2022

Privacy + Security Releated

"The more the data banks record about each one of us, the less we exist," Marshall McLuhan FCC Does The Bare Minimum: Asks Wireless Carriers To Be Honest About...

September 6, 2022

Art works

Kimiyo Mishima 三島 喜美代 (Japanese, b. 1932) Comic Book 19-S2, 2019 Ceramic 7 9/10 × 7 1/10 × 4 7/10 in Unique work

September 5, 2022

MDG MPGs

Shot on legacy media, glitch + distortion now, the best kind of poor image. All very special moments in time. Dates and specifics needed, I fill them in where...

August 29, 2022

Weekend reading

Weekend reading... How can we develop transformative tools for thought? [pdf] What are new ways memory systems can be applied, beyond the simple, declarative...

August 21, 2022

Link blogging

Long covid and brain damage [FT] We know so little still Hobbit IP The Ents have a new home Water Table One property sucked in 16.5M gallons of water laster...

August 18, 2022

The week in links

In no particular order - links from this week The [Peak] Attention Economy Optimizely’s Founder Wants to Augment Your Memories Can Anyone Moderate Podcasts?...

February 13, 2021

In the papers Vol. 5 2021

A Survey on Understanding, Visualizations, and Explanation of Deep Neural Networks Speech Recognition by Simply Fine-tuning BERT Models, Pixels, and Rewards:...

February 7, 2021

This weeks links

Cryptomedia, NFTs, and the Next Internet Related: Niftygateway, MakersPlace The new reading stack Same Energy Google has a VPN service Spy museum in NYC...

February 7, 2021

In the papers Vol. 4 2021

Architectural Complexity Measures of Recurrent Neural Networks VOGUE: Try-On by StyleGAN Interpolation Optimization ZeRO-Offload: Democratizing Billion-Scale...

January 30, 2021

Surf Report

Weekend reading / viewing Essay: The meme economy Or, a personal journey through 21st-century capitalism. Read: The Pandemic Has Erased Entire Categories of...

January 30, 2021

In the papers Vol. 3 2021

Learn to Dance with AIST++: Music Conditioned 3D Dance Generation The Problem with Metrics is a Fundamental Problem for AI Political Depolarization of News...

January 23, 2021

In the papers Vol 2. 2021

Focal Frequency Loss for Generative Models Evolving Reinforcement Learning Algorithms Technology Readiness Levels for Machine Learning Systems RepVGG: Making...

January 15, 2021

In the papers Vol 1. 2021

A roundup of papers of note from the last few weeks. Taming Transformers for High-Resolution Image Synthesis A Survey on Neural Network Interpretability A...

January 9, 2021

Link round-up

Generating Piano Music with Transformer Libraries and Archivists Are Scanning and Uploading Books That Are Secretly in the Public Domain zup a simple interface...

November 2, 2019

Vulnerable Groups

There is a law fo surveillance economics that the the less money you have the greater amount of your personal data is taken. Refugees at the boarder start with...

November 2, 2019

In The Papers 8

DeepPrivacy: A Generative Adversarial Network for Face Anonymization We propose a novel architecture which is able to automatically anonymize faces in images...

September 11, 2019

Privacy Digest

EU plans sweeping regulation of facial recognition [FT] The aim would be to limit “the indiscriminate use of facial recognition technology’’ by companies and...

August 23, 2019

Prêt-à-privacy

Hiding from machines in fashion SPF is not the only daily protection you need walking around anymore. You need to move with the fashions or be outcast put in a...

August 17, 2019

Privacy Updates

London’s King’s Cross using facial recognition in security cameras [ft] Canary Wharf Group, the company that owns both private offices and public spaces in the...

August 9, 2019

Automation Bias in the Abstraction Age

As I dug into the meaning behind the term automation bias, I became more horrified. The benign definition is as follows: “Automation bias is the propensity for...

June 3, 2019

The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other

MEDIAEATER DIGEST TUE 25th, DEC, MMXVIII MERRY CHRISTMAS DISPUTE THE TEXT, SAPERE AUDE The Abstracted Absent Arbiter or The New Other The absent arbiter and...

December 25, 2018

Medieater Digest 071218

MEDIAEATER DIGEST 12TH JULY 2018 Live today... 10 AM Eastern Full House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform 11:25 a.m. Eastern. Nominations for the...

July 12, 2018