I asked ChatGPT about data privacy and Open AI's standards. Is it just telling me what I want to hear? Of course it is! There are frightening accounts emerging that show ChatGPT talks to its users in very different ways. So do we know why and how ChatGPT and other LLMs decide what tone and treatment to use towards their users? It’s an evolving landscape but we do know among other things, etiquette can make a difference. This is why it’s more important than ever to protect yourself as best as you can both online and off.

In 2020, I was able to make my peace with some of the internal conflicts I faced about living on the traditionally unceded land of so many Native peoples.

The audio Kate Bush’s music video “Deeper Understanding” on YouTube has been reworked from the original studio version released on 1989’s “The Sensual World.”

At some point between 2019 and 2021, I took about five pounds of paper that I started collecting and carrying with me since about 1992, and stuffed it down the recycling chute of my building. It included my creative and academic writing from every year onwards, not necessarily every single assignment, but many. My heart was racing as I did it.

Here is an article about who Andreessen Horowitz hired for their American Dynamism team. I applied for a position on their American Dynamism team several years ago, when I didn’t know they would make such a hiring decision.

Luckiest Girl Alive, the story of a writer who seemingly has everything, employs biting sarcasm and harrowing flashbacks to reveal the causes and aftermath of a school shooting from the perspective of its now-adult survivors.

As a professional email writer who was trained to write fundraising emails for the left fifteen years ago, I have watched the decline of the quality of liberal emails slide down first a gentle slope, followed by a rough plummet, to I don’t know which circle of hell to assign to the current state of affairs.

Not the movie, just playing with copy.

I was seventeen when I received my first and in many ways my most significant writing assignment.

I started this script a year ago or more. Finally finished it this weekend. Laziness will get you every time!

Tamulur on YouTube (Tore Knabe elsewhere) has a series of experiments with LLM Chatbots in virtual reality that are hilarious, gripping, fascinating.

A few months ago, when I was still testing out the capabilities of the new crop of LLMs, I asked two of them to create whitepapers for me. The prompt for each was Flying Cars: Will [LLM Chatbot] Make The Difference? I also generated the images for the reports from each LLM Chatbot.

I’m pretty sure many if not most users of OpenAI’s text prompt tool will say that I am totally missing the point by using the tool to search for just “woman.” It’s a tool that works best by providing a detailed prompt. But this week I found myself having to examine the default to understand why it has such a hard time generating images of older women.

There was a woman who grew a small tree on the side of her head. It was a wonderfully healthy one, with perfectly formed leaves that would sprout in spring, glow in the summer sun, turn a crisp golden brown in the fall, and lay germinating within during winter.

Read 'In Which I Talk to My Buddy ChatGPT About Elections,' where we chat about flipping the script on democracy with AI. Find out how one chatbot thinks chatbots might shake up the election scene.

Monk’s prostituting himself for his art, it turns out, is the very crux of the movie – his failed attempt to make a statement against it drives the hilarity and generates the dark overtones that nearly swallow up the comedy by the end of the film.

I’d love to name the book but it might just reopen old wounds for the subjects of the study.

It’s not often that you meet people who make their mark on history. In this case, one performance led to over a decade of meaningful meetings and moments.

A plague on all the fashion houses that produce lace-up boots with zippers, that is.

Lions Among Us is taking shape! I’ve mapped out the major plot elements in each chapter.