Ways to think about alternative social media
We know the many ways social media platforms are failing us. But/and I think it would be tremendously helpful to expand our vocabulary and thinking about these things…
Tag: research
Explore this blog via ChatGPT
As a little experiment, I’ve set up a custom AI agent / GPT chatbot for this website, appropriately named The Waving Cat Explorer. The idea is that it…
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The state of election disinformation 2024 is: meh [newsletter]
So… we’re heading towards a major election year. More specifically, a major election year, with something like 50 elections globally, including the US presidential elections and the European…
The state of election disinformation as we head into 2024
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) recently released this report (“Seismic Shifts“, PDF) about the state of counter election disinformation initiatives in the US, and the trust…
Things that caught my attention
A few things that caught my attention over the last week or so. Some of them appear pretty wild even for 21st century standards, but I guess that’s…
Experimenting with DALL-E 2
For a while now I’ve had the chance to experiment a little with DALL-E 2, Open AI’s new AI system that “can create realistic images and art from…
AI as a forcing function for societal debate
We see that the spread of AI systems is effectively a forcing function for societal debates: Underlying conflicts are forced to the foreground because these systems will have…