With the release of Grok 2, Twitter’s latest model, there has been a growing number of images depicting fictional characters as well as celebrities and public personalities on the social media platform, sometimes with hilarious results, and often quite disturbing. Read more…
My social media timeline has started filling up with angry reactions to the news that several academic publishers have been licensing academic works to AI companies for training purposes without having consulted the authors of those works. I can understand Read more…
People involved in the Internet Regulation area have a recurring joke that the field is like being stuck in some form of digital Groundhog Day, in which we are re-living 1997 all over again. This is usually because we get Read more…
It’s been an interesting couple of years here in Llama Towers. While AI has long been a subject of interest to this blog, it’s undeniable that the subject has exploded recently due to the growing number of generative AI tools Read more…
If you’re at all interested in artificial intelligence, and if you’re reading this I suspect that you may be, you will probably already be aware about the dispute between OpenAI and actress Scarlett Johansson. On May 13, OpenAI revealed a Read more…
Something interesting is happening in the creative industries. Granted, there is always something interesting happening, although it usually involves excessive displays of wealth, or the rivalry of musical artists. However, Holywood is having a bit of a bad few months, Read more…
It’s been a while since we talked about NFTs here at Llama Towers, this is mostly because not a lot has been happening, but it is also due to most of my attention being directed to artificial intelligence. But a Read more…
There’s growing controversy online about the use of the word “delve” as an easy detector of whether a text has been written by an AI. I have to admit that I’m personally sad to see the word “delve” go, I Read more…
I have to admit that I have always been a realist, yet, when it comes to technology, I tend to side with the enthusiastic optimists. For many years, I shared the illusion (and perhaps common delusion) that the Internet was Read more…
If I were to ask you about a film depiction of artificial intelligence, there are quite a few candidates that would pop into one’s head. My mind tends to immediately jump to some classics, such as HAL 9000 in “2001: Read more…