🔗Links etc. 02/06/23

Just a human swimming in a sea of mediocre AI: Context Collapse #194

Photo by Hans-Peter Gauster on Unsplash

Here’s what’s on my radar:

Facebook secretly killed users batteries as part of “negative testing,” fired data scientist claims in lawsuit (Kathianne Boniello / NYP)

Two paths for AI journalism: They all suck, in my opinion (Max Read)

How ChatGPT Kicked Off an A.I. Arms Race (Kevin Roose / NYT)

“Two and a half years ago, the Columbia Journalism Review refused to publish Duncan Campbell’s investigation into The Nation magazine and its apparent support for Vladimir Putin. It is published here in full” (Duncan Campbell / Byline Times)

‘More humble’ Matt Lauer considering a media comeback attempt: sources (Emily Smith & Sara Nathan / NYP)

Avocados From Mexico cancels ChatGPT-integrated Super Bowl ad (Jeanine Poggi / Ad Age)

National Enquirer sold in cash deal (Katie Robertson / NYT)

“Tim Hortons’ mobile application users can now get a free hot beverage and a baked good after the Superior Court of Quebec approved a settlement agreement […] The lawsuit had alleged the restaurant chain’s app breached users’ privacy without adequate notice and consent despite how Tim Hortons represented its collection of geolocation data.” (Denise Paglinawan / Financial Post)

Apple will leave top product designer role vacant indenfinitely with industrial designers reporting directly to the COO (Mark Gurman / Bloomberg)

Pinterest lays off an additional 150 employees (James Hale / Tubefilter)

Twitter’s new policy will kill beloved content bots (James Hale / Tubefilter)

“At The Markup, we developed an investigative checklist that reporters filled out before embarking on a project. Top of the checklist was not novelty, but scale — how many people were affected by the problem we were investigating. In other words, we chose to tackle things that were important but not secret.” (Julia Angwin / Nieman Lab)

Ariana Grande buying back her makeup brand R.e.m. Beauty for $15M (Kevin Simauchi / Bloomberg)

Fiverr buys full-page ad in New York Times “An Open Letter to AI” (Micha Kaufman / LinkedIn)

The Visualdome = AI virtual reality art generation on Instagram (@thevisualdome IG)

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AI-generated music is wild (Marques Brownlee / YouTube)

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