https://techcrunch.com/2023/10/07/deal-dive-the-future-of-social-media-is-vertical/ You reach one of those “significant” birthday numbers and you take stock, look back, remember, relive. I’m not the person I was. Thankfully my politics haven’t “mellowed” as my family said they would. But my interests have changed. I look at what I was passionate about and remember a very different man. I smile … [Read more…]
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 be the funniest, the sharpest… … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/7/18/23799459/google-meet-ai-generated-videoconferencing-background-image The Stylist was busy. The election campaign was in full swing and the demands for interviews were flooding in Each candidate needed “dressing” and some were more amenable to help than others. The Stylist was the professional. They might be the experts on words, but The Stylist knew what worked on camera: “gravitas”, “family-focused”, … [Read more…]
https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/29/23777675/lexi-reese-elon-musk-twitter-senate-california She’s different. No seriously, don’t look at me like that. She’s not like the others. Yeh, “if voting changed anything, they’d abolish it..” I know. Politicians are all the same, I agree. But they’re not. She’s not. Why do you think the meeja are so on her case? She’s different. No, you can’t “follow” … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/congress-is-reportedly-limiting-staff-use-of-ai-models-like-chatgpt-195454777.html?src=rss She loved this time of year. It was why she’d got into politics. The chance to craft words that could be performative, do something, well that was something. And this time of year, that was even more exciting. The conference speech. The platform. Blanket coverage. Analysis of the rhetoric, her rhetoric – that was … [Read more…]
https://www.engadget.com/the-desantis-campaign-used-ai-generated-images-to-attack-trump-062923571.html Can a lie about a lie be a lie? It was one of those big questions she thought about as she watched the screens. She’d got into the campaign because she believed in the candidate – too many hours watching The West Wing in her youth, perhaps. He wouldn’t use synythetics, “And he doesn’t… … [Read more…]
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2023/apr/16/labour-absolutely-right-over-sunak-attack-ads-says-wes-streeting Look, isn’t there a dial somewhere? Alright, I’m old fashioned and I don’t “get it” but just explain it to me in simple terms. Let me explain how it used to be. Some guys came up with an idea for an ad. They made it. They sent it through to us and we approved … [Read more…]
https://www.forbes.com/sites/mattnovak/2023/03/23/donald-trump-shares-fake-ai-created-image-of-himself-on-truth-social I don’t know how to talk to her about this. You know what she’s like – opinionated is one way of saying it. I’ve spent my whole time in this job trying to gently say that she should stick to what she does best and leave me to do the comms. That’s what she … [Read more…]
Google is using AI to better detect searches from people in crisis https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/30/23001468/google-search-ai-mum-personal-crisis-information I remember when we started recruiting online. We were laughably amateur. Of course They thought we were being so clever – spotting relevant words and conversations. Getting in there, engaging, talking and… recruiting. But it was so blunt. We had to wait … [Read more…]
https://voicebot.ai/2020/11/17/bbc-releases-synthetic-voice-newsreader-for-online-articles/ Ever since the election it has become more and more difficult to “fan the flames”. The platforms are running scared and getting better at catching so-called “inflammatory” posts. They still only put warning stickers on them but getting something going and getting people going is becoming harder. At least as far as content is … [Read more…]