Welcome to Chaos & Amazement, where we explore the impact of digital technology on our daily lives. We started only a few weeks ago with a live broadcast on SocialRunner's Facebook Page, and now it's evolved to a weekly podcast show!  
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👉🏼 Content production? There’s an AI for that.  This website sounds like a useful tool for businesses and individuals looking to stay up-to-date on the latest AI developments and find the right AI for their specific needs.
🔗 https://theresanaiforthat.com/

▫️"In short, a close examination of the work produced by CNET's AI makes it seem less like a sophisticated text generator and more like an automated plagiarism machine, casually pumping out pilfered work that would get a human journalist fired. It's important for companies to ensure that their AI systems are producing original content, as plagiarism can have serious consequences for journalists and media outlets.
▫️ BuzzFeed soars on reports of Meta deal, plans to use OpenAI | ⁦@Reuters⁩ BuzzFeed will help generate content for Meta's platforms and train creators to grow their presence online. The article discusses how BuzzFeed plans to use OpenAI to generate content for Meta's platforms and train creators to grow their presence online.  

👉🏼 Why AI and creativity are not at war https://venturebeat.com/ai/why-ai-and-creativity-are-not-at-war/ via @VentureBeat “People mistakenly believe AI is going to steal their job. It won’t. But someone who uses it better than they do will.” It's important to understand that AI can enhance and augment human creativity rather than replace it. I call them AI whisperers.  

👉🏼 Fiverr Launches New Categories as Searches for AI-related Services Increased over 1400% Book your AI whisperers here: https://www.fiverr.com/cp/ai-services - It's interesting to see how Fiverr is responding to the increasing demand for AI-related services.  

👉🏼 TIL: enshittification An excellent essay by ⁦@doctorow⁩ that explains how all large internet platforms inevitably become «a useless pile of shit»  
🔗 https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/
▫️Is social media bad for teens' developing brains? Study shows teens who check social media more frequently showed greater activity in regions of the brain related to motivation, control, and salience.
▫️TikTok claims that only around 0.002% of videos in For You feeds are heated, but an external report claims that heated videos make up around 1-2% of total daily video views.  This report highlights the discrepancy between TikTok's official numbers and the actual percentage of heated videos on the platform, indicating a potential issue with the platform's content moderation.  

👉🏼 The Number 42: From Deep Thought to ChatGPT.  The concept of 42 is a significant number in technology and science fiction, including its role in the classic book "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" and its use in the name of OpenAI's language model, ChatGPT  

👉🏼 Amazon Enters the Market for Affordable Prescriptions.  Amazon's entry into the market for affordable prescriptions could potentially make it easier for people to access the medication they need.  

👉🏼 Acting Circularly to Fight Environmental Degradation: Dung Dung's Hair Recycling Initiative. - This is an interesting initiative that aims to find a sustainable solution for hair waste by recycling it.  

👉🏼 Facial Recognition-Proofing Our Lives: The Dazzle Club and Cap_able  Italian start-up Cap_able is offering its first collection of knitted garments that shields the wearer from the facial recognition software in AI cameras without the need to cover their face.