Essays & Reflection

 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

Generational Worldviews: An Anthropological Lens on Economic and Political Shifts

July 8, 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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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. 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

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

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: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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