But ChatGPT’s availability has altered the landscape, enabling people to generate entire blogs' worth of content at a single click.

From The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war

Cal Newport’s thoughts on ChatGPT: calnewport.com

Honestly, at this point using ChatGPT in the way that I do feels like a massively unfair competitive advantage. I’m not worried about AI taking people’s jobs: I’m worried about the impact of AI-enhanced developers like myself.

From simonwillison.net

Terrific breakdown of David Bowie’s Changes from www.ethanhein.com

Good marketing is the craft of understanding what people want and need and helping them achieve it.

From seths.blog

A gift to dictatorial leaders who hide behind claims of persecution, these corrosive changes occur in an increasingly hostile online environment, where censorship and suppression of free speech are major concerns.

From techpolicy.press

…how do I work with something that’s completely unreliable, that invents things, that comes up with APIs that don’t exist… how do I use that to enhance my workflow anyway?

From simonwillison.net

In looking at this, we wanted to frame the work of Makers — and the digital solutions they are building — in a way that could provide a base for conversation and collaboration with Makers and with key civil society stakeholders.

From The Makers Behind Apps for Good

…. governments, businesses, and civil society organizations should develop norms and policies for the use of AI-generated text, as well as techniques for figuring out the origin of a particular piece of text and whether it has been created using AI.

From Foreign Affairs

Harris is a woman and Harris is Black and Harris is a Black woman and that underlies the media coverage she gets, which then informs (or misinforms) how even reasonably well-informed Democrats view the vice president.

From www.dailykos.com

US IMMIGRATION AND Customs Enforcement agents are using an obscure legal tool to demand data from elementary schools, news organizations, and abortion clinics in ways that, some experts say, may be illegal.

From ICE Is Grabbing Data From Schools and Abortion Clinics | WIRED via

Southern California.

Motel 6 building and sign on the left side, a small pool, palm trees obscuring a McDonald's sign.
Beach with an empty teal lifeguard tower in the mid ground.

The first thing to explain is that what ChatGPT is always fundamentally trying to do is to produce a “reasonable continuation” of whatever text it’s got so far…

From Stephen Wolfram Writings