Notices by Bruce Sterling @bruces (bruces@mastodon.social)

*People still talk this way, as opposed to, "We'll have a giant Internet-scraping platform that uses more nuclear power than a city"

"As you can see from the chart, AI-generated image-based disinformation was just not a thing until late 2023, when AI image generators became widely available and popular, at which point they basically almost replaced all other forms of image-based disinformation."

https://www.404media.co/google-says-ai-now-leading-disinformation-vector-and-is-severely-undercounting-the-problem/

*Here to protect us from AI, presumably by throwing huge bales of VC cash at it

https://www.reuters.com/technology/us-homeland-security-names-ai-safety-security-advisory-board-2024-04-26/

https://blogs.nasa.gov/voyager/

*Nice hack.

*Boy, that's a tough call