speculations

Here’s Trump’s Mugshot. Do Your Thing, Internet.

https://gizmodo.com/donald-trump-mugshot-fulton-county-georgia-1850772122 It wasn’t going to be easy. Off course he wasn’t going to be first (or even in the first wave) so he was going to have to be the best. His wouldn’t be ‘perfect’, the sorry of faultless, seamless synth that makes you double take. His would have to… Read the rest

The Fabricant Launches Digital Clothing Collection Featuring AR Fashions

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/the-fabricant-launches-digital-clothing-collection-featuring-ar-fashions/ The queue was orderly. Uniform suits a shade somewhere between black and silver. The bouncer raised his screen lazily, the augmented search the least interesting part of his job. The underage girls giggled, telling their friends how their parents had waved them off after checking their hem and neckline,… Read the rest

Meta releases an AI model that can transcribe and translate close to 100 languages

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/22/meta-releases-an-ai-model-that-can-transcribe-and-translate-close-to-100-languages/ I’ll keep this understandable. Juste pour l’instant. This isn’t important after all. No me importa si me entienden. They can listen in on this if they want to. Es ist uns egal, ob sie bedeutungsloses Geschwätz wie dieses verstehen. In fact we deliberately make it easy for them so… Read the rest

Product placements can drive searches and purchases, research finds

https://www.marketingbrew.com/stories/2023/08/17/product-placements-can-drive-searches-and-purchases-research-finds It was like being a kid. Sometimes he giggled. Magic. Thinking something and watching it appear. Sometimes he watched programmes he wasn’t even interested in, just to play. Today, some teen romcom. He settled in to baseline the data and as the gang met at the coffee bar he… Read the rest

No app, no entry: How the digital world is failing the non tech-savvy

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/aug/20/no-app-no-entry-how-the-digital-world-is-failing-the-non-tech-savvy I get by. I’m not completely gaga. Ok sometimes I have to hang around outside the shop, along with the kids who look too young, hoping someone will buy them some beer. I always find someone who’ll take my cash and get me what I need on their card.… Read the rest

AI-generated art cannot be copyrighted, rules a US Federal Judge

https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/19/23838458/ai-generated-art-no-copyright-district-court Look, no disrespect or anything but I want a human lawyer. AI ones are great, massive depth of knowledge, speed, cost of course, but I need some innovative, creative thinking, some human weirdness. Yes, I know about “move 37” but, well call me old fashioned but if I’m going… Read the rest

WokeGPT: Study Says ChatGPT Shows Liberal Bias

https://gizmodo.com/chatgpt-shows-liberal-bias-study-says-1850747470 Dear Sir, I don’t normally write to newspapers but I feel on this occasion, I must. I am very proud to say that my granddaughter has secured a place at one of our country’s leading universities – to study a real subject, I might add. We are so proud… Read the rest

The Influencer Scandal Flurry: What It Means for Crisis Comms’ Future

https://www.adweek.com/brand-marketing/the-influencer-scandal-flurry-crisis-comms-future/ I understand what you say and I know how you feel. None of us wanted to do this. Our relationship has always been built on your personality, the real you connecting with our brand. The name “influencer” never really captured our partnership: your voice and ours together. But then… Read the rest

Snapchat’s My AI goes rogue, posts to Stories, but Snap confirms it was just a glitch

https://techcrunch.com/2023/08/16/snapchats-my-ai-goes-rogue-posts-to-stories-but-snap-confirms-it-was-just-a-glitch/ The morning meeting wasn’t going well. There was a tension that had been building all week. Maybe it was the time of year – a crucial one for them. The audience’s expectations were always high as schools returned. This was the time when the team needed to be singing… Read the rest