The TikTok ban is a betrayal of the open internet
— this should be addressed with consumer data privacy legislation, not a Great Firewall of America #The Future is a Dead Mall
— Dan Olson takes on Decentraland and the amorphous “metaverse,” the natural followup to his prescient video essay on the NFT bubble #MSCHF’s Tax Heaven 3000, the dating sim that does your taxes
— I trust MSCHF more than Intuit, a predatory company that tricks customers with dark patterns and lobbies to stop improvements #Recreating Sol LeWitt’s Wall Drawings with GPT-4
— artist Amy Goodchild compares its generated output to earlier versions made with GPT-3 #Microsoft laid off one of its responsible AI teams
— as competition heats up, I suspect more companies will treat ethics as disposable #The Secret of Joe Biden’s Empty Picture Frame
— one of my favorite blogs, Ironic Sans, is now a video series! #OpenAI announces GPT-4
— all the visual input examples are wild, it scores 90% on the Bar Exam compared to 10% for GPT-3.5 with less hallucination #Pirating the Oscars 2023: The Final Curtain Call
It’s Oscar night! Which means I’m curled up on my couch, watching the ceremony and doing data entry, updating my spreadsheet tracking the illicit distribution of Oscar-nominated films online.
The results are in, and once again, nearly every nominee leaked online in HD quality before the broadcast. All but one of this year’s 30 nominated films leaked online — everything except Avatar: The Way of Water.
But not a single screener for a nominated film leaked by Oscar night — for the first time in the 20 years I’ve been tracking it.