A history of Ello, which defined itself as an alternative to ad-driven social media, from its 2014 launch and funding to its quiet sale and sudden death in 2023
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Notes on Meta's plans for Threads integration with the fediverse, which, at least superficially, the company is carrying out cautiously and in good faith
This is an exceptionally long post detailing pretty much everything I learned at an event shortly before Christmas at Meta's offices in San Francisco.
In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more
It's also worth sharing this note from a former Tumblr employee who hoped to work on the project: https://mastodon.social/... @jtr@fosstodon.org : Matt on Tumblr — “There have be...
In an AMA on Tumblr, Matt Mullenweg spoke about Tumblr's future after shifting the majority of its staff to other areas at Automattic, monetization, and more
It's also worth sharing this note from a former Tumblr employee who hoped to work on the project: https://mastodon.social/... @jtr@fosstodon.org : Matt on Tumblr — “There have be...
Interviews with lawyers, analysts, and employees at AI startups on unresolved questions concerning copyright and fair use shaping the future of generative AI
the scary truth is there are no clear answers https://www.theverge.com/...
An engineer reimplemented Google AI's text-to-image diffusion model DreamBooth for Stable Diffusion, letting anyone cheaply and easily recreate artists' styles
Andy Baio / Waxy.org : Tweets: @waxpancake , @dreamwieber , @simonw , and @fredbenenson Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : Last week, a Redditor fine-tuned an AI image model on the...
Elon Musk says Twitter will form a content moderation council with “widely diverse viewpoints” for making major decisions about content and reinstating accounts
Twitter will be forming a content moderation council with widely diverse viewpoints. No major content decisions or account reinstatements will happen before that council convenes.
“Welcome to hell, Elon”: Musk won't be able to grow Twitter users and revenue without enormous compromises and realizing that content moderation is the product
Now It's Elon Musk's Turn Benj Edwards / Ars Technica : How to download a backup copy of your Twitter data (or deactivate your account) Peter Kafka / Vox : The Big Tech boom is ove...
Apple's new App Store guidelines say that social networking apps that sell “boosts” for posts must use in-app purchases for the transactions
With the release of iOS 16.1 and iPadOS 16.1, Apple is updating the App Store review guidelines that are provided to developers who create apps for iPhones and iPads.
Tech companies working with AI are shielding themselves from accountability by outsourcing data collection and model training to academic and non-profit groups
Yesterday, Meta's AI Research Team announced Make-A-Video, a “state-of-the-art AI system that generates videos from text.”
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest
laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI mod...
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest
laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI mod...
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest
laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI mod...
A look at 12M+ of the 2.3B images used to train Stable Diffusion reveals ~47% came from only 100 domains; the largest number, or 8.5%, originated from Pinterest
laion-aesthetic-datasette Use Datasette to explore … Tweets: Andy Baio / @waxpancake : What images are in the massive dataset that trained the Stable Diffusion text-to-image AI mod...
OpenAI makes DALL-E 2 widely available in beta through a credit-based fee structure; users will get free credits every month and can buy more in $15 increments
·E, the AI system that creates realistic images … Alex Gatewood / KnowTechie : DALL-E 2, the AI that creates images for you, expands beta tests Usama Jawad / Neowin : Powerful AI-b...
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview
Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview
Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview
Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
OpenAI releases DALL-E 2, a higher-resolution and lower-latency version of its text-to-image generation program with new capabilities, to researchers in preview
Researchers can sign up to preview it — Artificial intelligence research group OpenAI has created a new version of DALL-E, its text-to-image generation program.
A look at TropeTrainer, beloved Torah learning software that helped rabbis prepare kids for bar and bat mitzvahs, which became obsolete after its creator died
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