[nonostantement #259] - lawyers vs facial recognition / influencer creep / cybercriminals & chatgpt
Now with MORE subtitles, because we need them!
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Welcome! My name is Joele and I work with brands, developing their online strategies. Knowledge is meant to be shared, so every week I compile a list of the most interesting things that I've come across, and send it out to my friends here, in this email.
Music: Mansur Brown - It's My Time and 噢!今夜 - 脏手指
#PEOPLE
Nick Cave - The Red Hand Files - Issue #218 - I asked Chat GPT to write a song in the style of Nick Cave and this is what it produced. What do you think?
”It may sound like I’m taking all this a little too personally, but I’m a songwriter who is engaged, at this very moment, in the process of songwriting. It’s a blood and guts business, here at my desk, that requires something of me to initiate the new and fresh idea. It requires my humanness. What that new idea is, I don’t know, but it is out there somewhere, searching for me. In time, we will find each other.”Lawyers Are Back in Madison Square Garden After Facial Recognition Ban
MSG Entertainment resorted to facial recognition technology to kick out legal foes, but some have undermined the ban using a law passed to protect theater critics in 1941.Logos & brands for design and creative inspiration
Welcome to our collection with of over 2410 symbols and logotypes of the worlds best and most iconic international brands.List of Good Habits for The 21st Century
You are never going to do what you want to do if you don't have a list of good habits. A list of habits you practice daily.[Video] - A Rant About Japanese Traffic Cones
It doesn't get more exciting than this. Strap in for the adventure of a lifetime as I take you through the dizzying highs and lows of Japan's traffic cone obsession - an addiction that permeates even the ancient temples of Kyoto.[Video] - Why we all need subtitles now
It's not you — the dialogue in TV and movies has gotten harder to hear.
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#TECH
Year in Review: 12 Charts That Mattered
12 Charts take you back in time and around the world. Each with a unique story to tell, derived from our satellite activity datasets.OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour: Exclusive
OpenAI used outsourced workers in Kenya earning less than $2 per hour to scrub toxicity from ChatGPT. Here's what to know.Dateforce | Salesforce, but for dating
The world's first Dating Relationship Management software. Keep track of your contacts. Set reminders to follow up. View your dating history.CEO of ChatGPT maker responds to schools' plagiarism concerns: 'We adapted to calculators and changed what we tested in math class'
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman said in an interview that the company will work on tech like watermarking to prevent plagiarism but warns it won't be perfect.How to spot AI-generated text
The internet is increasingly awash with text written by AI software, and we need new tools to detect it.[Video] - First look - ChatGPT + WolframAlpha (GPT-3.5 and Wolfram|Alpha via LangChain by James Weaver)
An integration between ChatGPT (or rather GPT 3.5) and Wolfram Alpha, the most powerful computational knowledge engine in the world right now. And it shows chain of reasoning.
#SOCIALMEDIA
Meta's Oversight Board calls for more inclusive rules on adult nudity
Meta's Oversight Board says Instagram wrongly removed two images of a transgender and non-binary couple with bare chests and covered nipples.Influencer Creep
Self-documenting and self-branding are becoming basic to all forms of work.
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OPWNAI : Cybercriminals Starting to Use ChatGPT
CPR’s analysis of several major underground hacking communities shows that there are already first instances of cybercriminals using OpenAI to develop malicious tools.Guardian confirms it was hit by ransomware attack
Media firm says personal data of UK staff members was accessed in ‘highly sophisticated’ cyber-attack last month.
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