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I live in San Francisco , CA. I started Photojojo & Jelly . ( more... ) email : [current year] @ amit gupta dot com see also : Flickr ,+ I’m on Twitter! Home Feed Archive Dec 6 6:04 pm # 1095 Elon Musk did not create an AI trained on your fanfiction. cfiesler : Hi, AI ethicist + fanfiction expert here. (This is one of those times where I feel uniquely qualified to comment on something…) I’m seeing this weird game of telephone about the Sudowrite AI that I think started out pretty accurate, but now has become Elon Musk created an AI that is stealing your fanfiction” (which frankly gives him far too much credit). I can probably say more about this, but here are a few things that I want to clarify for folks, which can be boiled down to Elon Musk has nothing to do with this” and this is nothing new”: Elon Musk is not involved in any way with Sudowrite, as far as I can tell. Sudowrite does, however, use GPT-3, the widely-used large language model created by OpenAI, which Elon Musk co-founded. He resigned in 2018, citing a conflict of interest due to Tesla’s AI development. It wasn’t until after he left that OpenAI went from being a non-profit to a capped for-profit. Elon Musk doesn’t have anything to do with OpenAI currently (and in fact just cut off their access to Twitter data), though I can’t find anything that confirms whether or not he might have shares in the company. I would also be shocked if Elon actually contributed anything but money to the development of GPT-3. Based on Sudowrite’s description on their FAQ , they are not collecting any training data themselves - they’re just using GPT-3 paired with their own proprietary narrative model. And GPT-3 is trained on datasets like common crawl and webtext, which can simplistically be described as scraping the whole internet.” Same as their DALL-E art generator. So it’s not surprising that AO3 would be in that dataset, along with everything else (e.g., Tumblr posts, blogs, news articles, all the words people write online) that doesn’t use technical means to prohibit scraping. OpenAI does make money now, including from companies like Sudowrite paying for access to GPT-3. And Sudowrite itself is a paid service. So yes, someone is profiting from its use (though OpenAI is capped at no more than 100% return on investment) and I think that the conversations about art (whether visual or text) being used to train these models without consent of the artist are important conversations to be having. I think it’s possible that what OpenAI is doing is legal (i.e., not copyright infringement) for some of the same reasons that fanfiction is legal (or perhaps more accurately, for reasons that many for-profit remixes are found to be fair use), but I think whether it’s ETHICAL is a completely different question, and I’ve seen a huge amount of disagreement on this. But the last thing I will say is that this is nothing new. GPT-3 has been around for years and it’s not even the first OpenAI product to have used content scraped from the web. sanity check Via: fic, stats, cats, squee May 11 11:45 am # 28 Worst ideas for food carts mrgan : Probably Puffed : baked-to-order soufflé Bubble Market : curated selection of fine mineral waters Four Feet Good : artisanal pickled pig feet Fugu-about It : freshly de-toxified pufferfish Grandma’s Candy Bowl Benihana to Go : portable, grill-and-juggle-your-own teppanyaki The Protein Pros : nutmeat and muscle milk The Pig and The Pendulum : traditional buried Kālua pig Tofu Tom : vegan whole turkey legs Olive Gardenette [Previously: Most and least threatening business-lunch dishes ] I think I’d eat at Tofu Tom every day. Via: Neven Mrgan’s tumbl Jun 4 12:44 pm # 41 A New Experiment xoxofest : We know you’re anxiously waiting for news about this year’s festival, but you’ll have to wait a few more days. Today, we’re finally ready to reveal something we’ve worked on for the last six months. And we’re kind of freaking out. For the last four years, our goal with XOXO was to build a community around independently-produced art and technology. The festival is one way to do that, and it’s worked great. People have left their jobs and started new projects and companies after attending, made new friends who became collaborators, and self-organized XOXO meetups around the country. But there’s only so much you can do in four days every year. So, this fall, we’re taking the ideas behind XOXO and opening a permanent, year-round space: a 13,000 square foot industrial building in Portland’s Central Eastside. Our friends at Instrument have been supporters of XOXO since the beginning—here’s their writeup from last year—and with their help, we’re taking over the lease on their incredible workspace, a former World War II ship-building factory. We hope to bring together some of our favorite people and projects in indie art and tech under one roof, as well as a handful of startups working on tools that help people stay independent. And, of course, we’re ridiculously excited to have our own space to run weird and wonderful events year-round. This is, without question, the biggest and scariest thing we’ve ever done. It’s risky, expensive, and won’t work without you. So, if you have any interest in being a part of it, go check out the teaser site and sign up to get notified. We’re looking for independent creators and like-minded startups to join the space, and a small group of patrons to help subsidize the cost for those who can’t afford it. Like the festival, this is an experiment. It might fail horribly — or, like the festival, it might end up bigger and better than we ever dreamed. The next stage of XOXO is 13,000 square feet of raw potential. Let’s fill it together. — Andy & Andy Amazing. Via: XOXO Blog Jun 2 9:04 am # 30 Google Photos keeps making random photos into GIFs without my permission and is kind of great. This one’s jessa in Dubai atop the tallest building in the world. May 4 11:36 am # 32 Something happened last year and I didn’t tell anyone» An update on my life, and news of a big change. Jan 9 12:38 am # 49 offscreenmag : Issue No10 will be on sale online starting January 20th, ships January 26th. Subscribe now . Photo by Helena Price Very excited for this. p.s. That’s me, Jessa, and Leah the dog! Via: Offscreen Magazine Oct 28 7:07 pm # 74 Based on a true story… slackhq : You might have seen the video on the home page of our website (and if you haven’t, it’s embedded at the bottom of this post). It’s pretty funny. And, just like it claims, it really does tell the story of how Sandwich Video got on Slack. Long ago we promised to publish the transcripts of the conversation that lead to the creation of the video. And now, for you dear reader: behold! Read More I love this story . Via: Several People Are Typing Jul 25 10:40 am # 37 In Costa Rica for 2 weeks for Photojojo’s annual Workcation. Took a drone, went to the cloud forest. May 28 4:04 pm # 28 techcrunch : Drone flying lesson with @photojojo in Dolores Park! #TCTV Via: TechCrunch May 12 10:40 am # 66 Filed under: Tabs I keep open in my browser. Source Apr 25 11:00 pm # 26 My bike! Spotted in St Helena a few weeks ago by ryangraves . Via: saltwater.com Apr 21 2:51 pm # 64 naveen : Wait, WUT? Every so often, when I am sitting alone with my phone (sad panda) and have some time to kill, I log into the anonymous internet: usually WUT and Secret. After spending most of the last decade on services that need your actual identity, I’ve been curious about these services that allow you to leave your real names behind. I think the late 90s were the last time I personally sought out services where I was anonymous or pseudonymous. Ever since then, I’ve been bringing together my identity into one namespace (@naveen). One of the immediate benefits in such services is that your words carry weight and legitimacy on their own. You don’t scan to see who posted it before deciding whether to start reading it. Twitter democratized things in the sense that I...