It’s important if the Atlantic says so...

https://www.bespacific.com/the-atlantics-guide-to-privacy/

The Atlantic’s Guide to Privacy

The Atlantic’s Guide to Privacy [read free]: “In 2023, digital privacy is, in many ways, a fiction: Knowingly or not, we are all constantly streaming, beaming, being surveilled, scattering data wherever we go. Companies, governments, and our fellow citizens know more than we could ever imagine about our body, our shopping habits, even our kids. The question now isn’t how to protect your privacy altogether—it’s how to make choices that help you draw boundaries around what you most care about. Read on for our simple rules for managing your privacy, and get a list of personalized recommendations.”

Worth reading. What’s really going on?

https://aiguide.substack.com/p/can-large-language-models-reason

Can Large Language Models Reason?

What should we believe about the reasoning abilities of today’s large language models? As the headlines above illustrate, there’s a debate raging over whether these enormous pre-trained neural networks have achieved humanlike reasoning abilities, or whether their skills are in fact “a mirage.”

Reasoning is a central aspect of human intelligence, and robust domain-independent reasoning abilities have long been a key goal for AI systems. While large language models (LLMs) are not explicitly trained to reason, they have exhibited “emergent” behaviors that sometimes look like reasoning. But are these behaviors actually driven by true abstract reasoning abilities, or by some other less robust and generalizable mechanism—for example, by memorizing their training data and later matching patterns in a given problem to those found in training data?

Tools & Techniques. Perhaps a translation of Shakespeare?

https://www.zdnet.com/article/how-to-create-your-own-comic-books-with-ai/

How to create your own comic books with AI

You've dreamed of becoming a comic book artist but you lack one important skill, namely the ability to draw. Well, now AI can fulfill those dreams for you. Available as a space through Hugging Factory, the AI Comic Factory will design comic book pages for you based on your descriptions.

Describe the scenario you envision, choose a style, and then select a layout. You can even opt to add captions. In response, the AI will create the necessary panels to form an entire page. You can then produce one page after another and save or print each page. Here's how it works.

Interesting business model.

https://www.fastcompany.com/90951343/ai-essays-advertising-on-meta-and-tiktok

Companies that use AI to help you cheat at school are thriving on TikTok and Meta

This is the first full academic year where students have access to AI-powered chatbots like ChatGPT. While students around the world may be tempted to deploy such assistants, the tech is still far from perfect: So-called hallucinations remain commonplace in chatbots’ responses, with research suggesting GPT-4 makes up one in five citations.

As a result of chatbots’ unreliability, many essay mills, which produce content for a fee, are touting that they combine both AI and human labor to create an end product that is undetectable by software designed to catch cheating. And, according to a new analysis published in open-access repository arXiv, such mills are soliciting clients on TikTok and Meta platforms—despite the fact that the practice is illegal in a number of countries, including England, Wales, Australia, and New Zealand.