Holly Black’s The Cruel Prince was massively popular when it was published in 2018 – New York Times bestseller, millions of copies sold. It became a sensation in the romantasy world of BookTok, the short videos that galvanized the publishing industry after 2020. So recently the publisher released a “collector’s edition” with a velvet cover,…
AI is being used to generate explicit images of real people, celebrities, and minors. Nudity! Bikinis! Sex, sex, so much sex! The use of technology to create pornography is, of course, intolerable and must be stopped. For weeks, Elon Musk’s AI chatbot Grok has been undressing women and minors. California’s Attorney General launched an investigation into the “shocking, disgusting,…
My last article talked about a specific laptop with a Snapdragon processor, the Lenovo Thinkpad T14s Gen 6. For my needs, it stands head and shoulders above the otherwise exactly identical models with Intel and AMD processors – wildly extended battery life, reliable fast startup, no heat or fan noise, full performance on battery, no compromises. There…
Details matter. Here’s a detail about AI that matters: there’s a difference between hallucinations and misinformation. Seems subtle, I know, but the distinction might help you understand important things as our world becomes all AI, all the time. Here’s an example of what happens when the distinction is not understood. In February 2023, Google was scrambling to respond…