Ep 275 Twitter, Mastodon and AI

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Check out Episode 275 from December 7, 2022! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

1. How Mastodon and the Fediverse put social networks in people’s hands (PC World, 30 Nov 2022)

2. Hate Speech’s Rise on Twitter Is Unprecedented, Researchers Find (NY Times, 2 Dec 2022)

3. Mastodon conversation with Adam Mackay (focusing on generative AI platform “MidJourney“)

4. Great podcast discussion Twitter verification with Bridget Todd and Joelle Monique

5. AI experts are increasingly afraid of what they’re creating (Vox; 29 November 2022) “What’s the worst that could happen?”

6. Read This Before You Jump on the Lensa “Magic Avatar” Trend (Hyperallergic; 6 December 2022)

7. Lensa AI, the app making ‘magic avatars,’ raises red flags for artists (TechCrunch; 5 December 2022)

8. ChatGPT Version 4

9. The College Essay Is Dead: Nobody is prepared for how AI will transform academia (The Atlantic, 6 Dec 2022)

10. This artist is dominating AI-generated art. And he’s not happy about it. (MIT Tech Review, 16 Sept 2022)

11. Jason’s been playing with AI writing platform lex.page

12. The long-awaited US broadband internet maps are here — for you to challenge (The Verge; 18 November 2022)

13. FCC Broadband Map

14. Stalkers’ “chilling” use of AirTags spurs class-action suit against Apple (ArsTechnica, 6 Dec 2022)

15. Episode post image created using MidJourney (on Flickr)

16. MidJourney creation syntax for our post image (on Flickr)

17. Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Wes: Generative AI is Here. Who Should Control It? (The Fork podcast, 21 Oct 2022) – NC Power Grid Attacks (Dec 2022)

18. Jason’s Geek of the Week: BackMarket

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

1. Why Everyone's Talking About ChatGPT, a Mindblowing AI Chatbot (CNet, 7 Dec 2022)

2. The Moral Panic Over Open-Source Generative AI (Lincoln Policy, 10 Oct 2022)

3. Amazon Alexa is a “colossal failure,” on pace to lose $10 billion this year (Ars Technica; 21 November 2022)

4. Apple sued by two women over AirTag stalking (Phone Arena; 6 December 2022)

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