Let’s be clear from the start: creators should absolutely have the right to say no to companies training generative AI models on their work. No one’s creative output or personal style should become raw material for another enterprise without consent. This is a matter of respect, agency, and basic ethics.

But the genie is out of the bottle. 

From my works here as an experimental in machine-man symbiosis:

https://medium.com/aishit/rethinking-rights-management-in-the-age-of-ai-and-infinite-slop-legal-philosophical-and-c8434f83b28d

https://zdrilx.substack.com/p/rethinking-rights-management-in-the

Let us continue the dive into who he was and what came up of his vision with this experimental man-machine symbiotic work.

J.C.R. Licklider, a psychologist and visionary technologist, played a crucial but often overlooked role in shaping today’s digital world. As ARPA’s first Information Processing Techniques Office director, he funded research that led to the ARPANET. In his 1960 paper Man-Computer Symbiosis, he imagined a future where humans and machines collaborate, not compete. Licklider’s work emphasized enduring, thoughtful design over hype. His vision remains a guide for building meaningful, human-centered technology.

For this episode, I try to get into some conversations with ChatGPT about NotebookLM's late weird podcast about my 2006-7 BootyMachine project...

Using the online-offline multimodal art experience of the Bootymachine from 2007, and using the pdf file of the published book named The Bootymachine ( ISBN 978-2-940679-01-0 ) but also some audio, webserver, photo files and URLs from the original YouTube channel, Google's NotebookLM offers a weird deep dive into this experience from before the iPhone years...

Hope you enjoy! This will lead to further rabbit hole travels in the near future, including with other AI tools, still using this weird but easy to control reference for me.

Don't hesitate to interact! :)

NotebookLM is here https://notebooklm.google.com

The Bootymachine is kind of here (original files, but reconstructing the overall site) https://zzz.ch/bootymachine/2007/

Welcome to this episode of AI’s Hit. Today, we’re testing the possibilities of AI by focusing on Google’s experimental Notebook LM system. This is essentially an AI platform, and I thought, what better way to test it than using the full PDF of a book from 2007, which covers an online project called “The Booty Machine.”

The Booty Machine was a collective photography project that involved creating a platform combining photos, audio, and music. It was designed to explore the new possibilities of mobile phones, the internet, and social sharing in both live and online settings. We even integrated real-time elements during music festivals and posted videos. This was ahead of its time, with the first videos appearing on YouTube in 2007, just after we published content on the Booty Machine platform.

Now, if you haven’t heard of Notebook LM, I recommend checking out the website (link below). What I did was feed the entire PDF into Notebook LM’s document synthesis tool. The PDF is dense—almost 400 pages, with photos and text documenting each day of the year, plus a leap year entry. While the book doesn’t include the music, I’ve added some audio files from 2007 for illustration.

Notebook LM generated a podcast based on the PDF, which I’ll share with you shortly. This is an intriguing experiment to see how AI interprets and synthesizes multimedia content. The project itself was quite abstract, blending text, photos, sound, and video—so this is a deep dive into how AI can process and understand such a mixed format.

In the next episode, I’ll walk you through an experiment using ChatGPT on the same content. So if you’re curious, don’t forget to subscribe and stay tuned for the follow-up episode.

By the way, the original Booty Machine project is still online, though the server has had some issues recently due to an attack. However, it’s also archived on archive.org, so it’s accessible despite these technical challenges. Thanks for listening, and I hope you enjoy the podcast. Feel free to speed it up if it’s too long for your liking!

This first kind of episode is trying to resume the podcast. Kind of started during the last century by a TV show named Ted and Bill (in French) and distributed worldwide, some podcasts from the early century (yes there were RSS feeds with audio files of radio-like content), and zand.photography's AI's Hit playlist about AI and photography, here is my rant reaction I would love for you to react on.

Chat GPT-4o introduction page:

https://openai.com/index/hello-gpt-4o/

Two assistants resolving a customer support request with the user on the phone:

https://x.com/joebeutler/status/1790248559113306375?s=46&t=wKMKbM14Cpg2DrvEFTAjzg

Artificial Intelligence makes a hit on many things. Originally a series about artificial intelligence and its link to photography, let's open up the discussion and rants a bit. As it is already impacting our daily lives, but also promising to modify not only our habits but the actual conception of how reality feels, let's maybe have a small talk about it. You can find all the versions of AI's Hit here (including the French and English video versions about photography and AI): http://aishit.net