I read a fair amount of comics in translation, and even when the translation is done with a skilled human, I can always tell that there’s something off about it. Not sure I trust an LLM to fix that problem.

Also, I wish that Webtoon weren’t platformizing webcomics and that we could go back to the models we had in the 2000s and 2010s.

This is the first thing I’ve bothered reading about the router ban, and it is exactly the kind of thing I was hoping to read.

Uh, this sucks.

Oh look, they are capable of shame.

Opt out is a terrible way of doing this. I’m so angry that I didn’t even finish the article before posting.

Wild escalation of digital labor issues in generative AI.

An important read on OpenAI’s seeming selling out.

Don’t think I’ve posted anything on this story yet because as the article points out, it’s hard to focus on this evil with so many other evils distracting us.

Anthropic is weird, and their conscience is focused in some directions at the expense of others (Claude is trained on pirated copies of my research), but at least they have a conscience.

Love that I get to worry about deepfake nudes, scramble to change the way I assess, and now pay more for tech—if it’s even available.

Tim Cook wasn’t blameless before this, but now?

Wish I were better read on information ecosystems, because this seems important.

Heartbreaking read but better for it.

So, Apple will kick Patreon off the app store for not forking over 30% of its revenue, but it won’t do anything about Grok? Sounds about right.

Good overview of an enraging story.

This is a very cathartic read.

What a disaster.

So is now a bad time to need to sell a 2020 RadCity 4?

I missed the detail about Disney+ using some of the Sora output, and that makes this whole thing even more about labor exploitation.

Involving Disney, who infamously stiffed Alan Dean Foster on Star Wars royalties, so clearly demonstrates how the underlying issue with generative AI isn’t copyright, it’s labor.

Oof, what a read.

Very helpful context—especially as I consider writing a paper on Grokipedia.

If one idea from Ellul has made the most impact on me, it’s his fierce criticism of attitudes of inevitability.

Dammit, now is not a great time to be looking for a replacement ebike. And it looks like Rad is going under, too? Ugh.

This provides some helpful context, including confirming my suspicion that Twitter!Grok works differently than Base!Grok when it comes to these weird episodes.