In case you missed it or ran out of outrage over the weekend, here's your Monday reminder to complain to your work Slack admin about them scraping content for generative AI.
Don't just opt out. Ask them to threaten to dump Slack for this.
Stop all use of Google Drive immediately. There are many other options for sharing data and files.
The spyware built in is bad enough, but they are also judging what you store there and blocking what they don't like. Your files, not accessible to you.
@afeinman@danielbowen they’re especially bad due to other UI trends like removing control styling. Right-clicks were similar: we used to have widespread standards for indicating controls & people would try right-clicks more, keyboards had dedicated buttons, etc. but now a lot of people never got in the habit of trying because it usually does nothing. I just don’t see the minimalist UI folks admitting that they went toro far, but maybe something like Apple’s de-Ives-ing could happen.
This morning's writing inspiration from @charliejane:
“I get why people want to share their own writing rules [...]; when you find something that works for you, it’s natural to want to share it with everyone else. [...]
Nevertheless, rulemaking is another way that we internalize our anxieties, and then put them on everyone else. Nobody ever wants to admit how confused we all are.”
@afeinman my position changed slighly away from that recently, some specialized models have shown not only ability to play chess at a decent level (easily beating average players, at about 1800 ELO), on games they never saw, but experiments indicate they build an internal representation of the board from the sequence of moves, which i think could qualify as "understanding". It seems possible that building a sufficiently large model to predict text could require infering a model of the world.
Looking for cover artist referrals (boosts welcome). Pay is $600 USD for a novel cover.
What I want:
Mr. Maybe and Dr. Don't is a non-traditional MG fantasy, with swords and magic and unusual woodland magical critters that need some art design. Whimsical without being farcical.
(In an ideal world the artist would also contribute some interior art, e.g. b/w frontispiece and/or chapter images. Price negotiable for that.) #amPublishing#WritersCoffeeClub#writing#artist
@afeinman I've been working with several indie artists, one of whom is looking for work right now. David Lường is very good with historical(ly inspired) style and architecture.
How can he best contact you?