Steven Swimmer

While LLMs are powerful tools, something seems off about much of the text. Here's 10 Signs of AI Writing That People Miss. open.substack.com/pub/thealgorit…

Interesting that Salesforce Dreamforce seems to be all about AI Agents and Agentic Systems #dreamforce #saleforce #agenticsystems #AI

23AndMe should not sell out its customers, even if they're in financial trouble! Sign @CRAdvocacy petition demanding @23AndMe to protect its customers’ highly sensitive genetic data action.consumerreports.org/nb-20241017-23…

Justice Department and 30 states filed a lawsuit against Live Nation Entertainment, which manages over 400 artists, owns or operates 260 concert venues & controls more than 80% of major concert ticketing through Ticketmaster sherwood.news/business/ticke…

@DollarFlights Is your team trying to run me off as a customer?

New Report: Beethoven may have gone deaf and ultimately died due to lead poisoning coming from cheap wine, which he drank daily. nytimes.com/2024/05/06/hea… #Beethoven

Where are US teens spending their time? Pew Research: 93% say they used YouTube. 63% say they used TikTok. Snapchat at 60% and Instagram at 59%. But 17% say they use TikTok "almost constantly" vs YouTube at 16%, Snapchat at 14% and Instagram at 8%.

Midjouney is already shockingly good at image generation. I'm fascinated to see where they go with Video, 3D and realtime generation. #ai #GenerativeAI

Imagine reading you own obituary... Scammers have been creating fake obits about living people as clickbait with the help of AI. - CNN apple.news/AZqip2sf0Tnuh_…

Is your auto maker selling your driving data to insurance companies or data brokers? This can increase your insurance costs even if you've never had an accident or received a traffic ticket! And they may use deception to get you to "opt-in." nytimes.com/2024/03/11/tec…

Should artists be held accountable for extreme tardiness to shows where people are paying hundreds of dollars for tickets? Madonna sued by 2 New York City fans for late concert start time. ew.com/madonna-lawsui… via @EW

I like this take on backing tracks for live music. I understand for some artists and some songs backing tracks make sense, but I much prefer a fully live band. ultimate-guitar.com/news/general_m…

Artists may start getting small payments for generative AI derived from their work from some companies. But details are murky. It seems like this may be heading the way of streaming music where artist are getting small fractions of a cent per stream. techcrunch.com/2023/09/30/how…

Could Cyborg Cockroaches save lives? Scientist have been able to hack their antennae to make them remote-controlled to be used for search and rescue for disaster response. youtube.com/watch?v=oGf0UX…

@nickfloats @ssimonvii Yes, there is a huge amount of friction in the on boarding process.

@ssimonvii the onboarding experience is SO brutal for anyone who isn't already familiar with Discord. Even if you are familiar with Discord, it's still over a dozen steps just to get set up and start prompting.

Midjourney needs to get out of Discord ASAP

1,000s of Free Audiobooks Released: Project Gutenberg & Microsoft have released free & open audiobooks using AI voice Project Gutenberg's collection. #audiobooks #aivoice #projectgutenberg #microsoft #freeaudiobooks …rhamilresearch4.blob.core.windows.net/gutenberg-publ…

Is the AI Alignment Problem is a serious risk? Open AI is now working on a solution. The concern is that AI systems’ goals may not align with those of humans. The risk is heightened if future AI systems are smarter than humans and have conflicting goals. spectrum.ieee.org/the-alignment-…

So we're now at the point that AI bots are better than humans at solving CAPTCHAs. Here comes the noise. qz.com/ai-bots-recapt…

Looking forward to testing the new MidJourney feature of Image Inpainting, which is a way to remix a portion of the image while retaining other parts. decrypt.co/153380/midjour…