The Manifest: What Lives Inside "Just a Browser"
A disk-cleanup session turns into an inventory of the machinery Google ships to two billion machines — silently, continuously, and mostly without a name you'd recognize.
The Archive · 256 entries
Writing
Essays and notes on AI, privacy, media, and culture. Newest first.
Disabling Telemetry in Claude Code
What Claude Code's telemetry environment variables actually control, how to switch them off, and what changes when you do.
The Wrong Side of the C's
Four phases of the network, four sets of C-words. The five that describe how the network governs us are the same five that name the controls of the studio. Same words, different sides.
When Memory Became a Service
External storage is old. External recall is new. What happens to the creative faculty of memory when the accurate faculty is handed off?
Margaret Mary Doyle Ghuneim 1936-2026
There will not be a day that goes by when her presence will not be deeply missed.
Mind the Gap: The Shrinking Lead of Closed-Source AI
The catch-up lag that used to take 12-18 months has compressed to roughly 6-9 months
Distributed Agency in Human-AI Systems: A Framework for Analyzing Authorship, Control, and Autonomy
A framework for measuring authorship distribution in AI-participated creative work
The Loss of Terra Firma: Fragmented Consciousness
Whether sleeping or awake, the human mind requires a causal anchor
Reading list: Jan / Feb 26
CLI FTW / Command Line Interface For The Win
File under: Deeper windows. Behavioral UI shifts
Utility of .new Domains
How action URLs can become the start of the creative process
Link Digest
A curated collection of links spanning AI, privacy, art, music, and the 39C3 congress.
Relive: A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet
Cory Doctorow's talk from 39C3: Power Cycles on building an enshittification-resistant internet.
Man Machine - Value Proposition
A visual diagram mapping the human-AI value proposition.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Link blogging :: newsfeeds.net
Stood up newsfeeds.net for links - A clean, concise, curated source for links. Find it at newsfeeds.net
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
SELLING MY LIFE / NOSTALGIA MARKET
September 19 – October 19, 2025. An installation blurring private sanctuary and public marketplace, inviting visitors to rediscover the gallery as a lived-in archive of three decades of cultural memory.
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...
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...
stybd
Excited to share more --- coming out of alpha release - it's official stybd.com
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...
Moving Men To Action
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...
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...
Generational Worldviews: An Anthropological Lens on Economic and Political Shifts
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...
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...
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 &...
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...
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...
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...
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...
AI Personas Influence Map
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...
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.
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Mapping Data Surveillance Infrastructure : US
Audio narrative for this datamap of US (click for full view)
AI Media Production Resources
Classification of Moving Visual Media: Resource: Classification of Moving Visual Media Summary: This article categorizes visual media into traditional,...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
Suno + Udio Lawsuits
What happens to music, happens to everyone. Suno: https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/24776034/1.pdf Udio:...
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...
This Weeks Model
Audioseal (meta) Cutting-edge audio manipulation toolkit. Florence (msft) Microsoft's advanced conversational AI. Open-Sora v1.2 (github) Community-driven...
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...
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...
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...
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"...
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,...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
OpenAI Spring Update, Google IO
OpenAI Spring Update Google IO
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...
Sora, Runway, Pika FT Market Test
FT does a video a/b test w/SORA and Runway and Pika labs (FT)
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...
Playgrounds
Perplexity Lab Free LLM Playground HuggingChat Free LLM Playground Together AI LLM Playground Vercel AI Free LLM Playground Groq Free LLM Playground Fireworks...
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...
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...
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...
MED Vol. 30, No. 116
Personal Explorations in Distributed Cognition with Foundation Models (medium) Meta Platforms, Inc. (META) First Quarter 2024 Results Conference Call...
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)...
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 :...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Open Models
Open-source AI is important because it.... Fosters innovation and broad participation - Open-source AI allows developers and researchers globally to...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
Current Media Landscape
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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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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)...
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...
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...
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 -...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Privacy: Google Maps Location Data
This data is dangerous, good to see the shift to device, makes geo-fence requests moot...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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,...
Synthetic Media: Unprompted
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Video Hallucinations
https://youtube.com/shorts/89G-zvnYD-I?feature=share
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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")
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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.
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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)....
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"...
Generative Entertainment Milestones
Generative Entertainment Milestones In chronological order. Milestones 1956: The first computer-generated music is created by an IBM computer in Australia....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
McLuhan '77
https://twitter.com/bfcarlson/status/1609988081825751041
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...
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...
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
Seizing the means of prediction
The world is running on recommendation algorithms, and emergent predictive algorithms will be here soon to police it.
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...
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...
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...
Artists + AI
Cindy Sherman training an AI and using it to generate work. Comments from peers in both approval and speaking about experimenting themselves.
Watch this...
“Elon Musk, interviewed by Sarah Lacy, “A Fireside Chat with Elon Musk,” Santa Monica, CA, July 12, 2012,...
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...
Monday Graphs
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
AI Search
AI related search tools https://metaphor.systems https://galactica.org dust.tt
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...
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...
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...
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...
Generated Drives
Generative drives Nightdrive Drivey
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...
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...
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
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...
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...
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...
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?...
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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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