Dall-E 2. Stable Diffusion. Midjourney. These tools all use generative AI to create images based on any text description you can dream up. They’re astounding. But the stuff they churn out can be more fascinatingly weird than wonderful. They’re also provoking ire (and, in the case of Stable Diffusion and Midjourney, legal pushback) from artists who don’t like the idea of AI taking their jobs, being trained on their work, and even mimicking their style.
Enter Adob
Conventional wisdom holds that if an app or service is free, it’s users who are the real product. But what if there was a way to make actual cash off of the data you generate online?
As new barriers emerge for advertisers trying to harvest consumer data, some see a business opportunity. John Roa, the New York City-based founder of Caden, believes there’s an untapped market for “ethically sourced, first-party data” that users actually nets users money.
Google says its ready to let the public use its generative AI chatbot, Bard.
The company will grant tens of thousands of users access to the bot in a gradual rollout that starting Tuesday.
Google says people will use the chatbot, which will be available online and as a mobile app, for things like generating ideas (“Bard, how do I keep my plants alive?”), researching ideas (in combination with Search), and drafting first drafts of letters, invites, or proposal
Higher mortgage rates have quashed the housing boom of the past few years—and on Tuesday, the National Association of Realtors said that in February, home prices were lower in a year-over-year comparison for the first time in almost 11 years.
That’s the real world. Over in the metaverse, though, real estate is undergoing a different sort of struggle, as it’s tied so closely to the price of Ethereum. Average sales prices for parcels of virtual land have dropped f
Life in the Gig Economy tells the stories of workers in an industry millions of people rely upon. If you’d like to share your story, email staff writer Jessica Bursztynsky at Jessicabursz@proton.me.
Pedro Santiago is a 41-year-old gig worker in St. Louis who drives for Uber, Instacart, and DoorDash. He also runs a YouTube channel offering insights and advice about rideshare and delivery jobs. Having worked in the gig economy for almost three years, this is what the exper
Since late January, I’ve been trying to fool faraway friends into thinking that I’m a fellow iPhone user.
The key has been a free Android app called Sunbird, which replaces your default text messaging app with one that supports iMessage. When it works, iPhone users see their messages in blue, just as if they’re conversing through iMessage, and it supports features like full-resolution images and large group chats.
But engaging in this act of trickery h
The Biden administration released its first National Cybersecurity Strategy on March 2, 2023. The last version was issued in 2018 during the Trump administration.
As the National Security Strategy does for national defense, the National Cybersecurity Strategy outlines a president’s priorities regarding cybersecurity issues. The document is not a directive. Rather, it describes in general terms what the administration is most concerned about, who
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Starting April 1, my workday regimen here in San Francisco is in for a change. The city’s four Amazon Go convenience stores—which leverage
Mailbrew streamlines dozens of accounts you follow into a customizable digest. It used to cost $8 per month but a new owner has made it free. Read on for how to make the most of it; a demo vid and a recommended setup; caveats; and alternatives. For a quick example, here’s a new public Mailbrew digest I created.
The problem Mailbrew addresses
It’s hard to keep up with everything that’s published daily. Mailbrew
GitHub begins rolling out a new GPT-4-powered version of its Copilot coding assistant today. The new iteration expands the tool’s functionality to more phases of the code creation process.
The original Copilot, launched in 2022, was based on the earlier GPT-3 model, and worked within the developer’s editor window to autocomplete lines or sections of code, or generate code based on plain language requests.