Lawmakers have begun to contemplate new rules around authorship and ownership in connection with creative machines, and the stakes are huge for both the businesses that depend on creative work and the investors who poured billions into new AI tools.
Source - Who Owns a Song Created by AI? →
This is an important debate that needs addressed before it becomes a legal mess.
I generally find it easy to write about meta topics around my writing process. Or platforms. Among the people I read online, the behaviour is common. At the same time, I’m not too fond of these meta posts. All I am doing is convincing myself why the choice of a platform is the right one. No one cares about them.
Will I ever run out of places where I can write at? I won’t. Can I ever have enough of them? Never. Should I write about all of them? Absolutely not.
Holding oneself back from writing about a particular topic is antithetical to the spirit of blogging, where no topic is beyond the bounds.
But writing about every experiment lends me a false sense of achievement. I write because I want to think better. I write because I want to improve my writing skill. Writing mindlessly about my experiments doesn’t help me with either of those. Hence I don’t write meta posts any longer.
Or so I think. Ironically, this itself is a meta post.
Substack Notes experience, especially with signup, is horrible. I provided an email address to login. Finding things very similar to Twitter, I followed a bunch of people and soon I was bombarded with newsletter issues. When did I agree to sign up for the newsletters? Terrible!
The researchers input one paragraph per character into ChatGPT, describing their occupation, relationship with other agents, and memories they have
Source: Google Tells AI Agents to Behave Like ‘Believable Humans’ to Create ‘Artificial Society’ →
This is fascinating direction of research. This should start the debate on who says we aren’t the agents in some other worldly simulation.
I’ve learned through experience that skipping the rest your body is telling you it needs will only make it worse
Source - Women taking time for themselves →
Substack wants to be Buttondown. Substack wants to be Medium. Now, Substack wants to be Twitter. And it wants to do all of that in a single app. All those experiences do not align.
There’s a funny conflict to the idea of user interfaces: a good one tends to go unnoticed, the thoughtful design decisions too subtle to notice; a bad UX or UI is one that makes you want to scream
The reason AI is making such a difference in password cracking is that instead of having to run manual password analysis on leaked password databases, PassGAN is able to “autonomously learn the distribution of real passwords from actual password leaks.”
That’s scary. I knew the day was close when even our strong passwords were no longer were safe. I didn’t know it was this close.
It is the phase when I reevaluate my use of all the services I am subscribed to. Of course, my email client is one of the key ones on the list. I was an early Gmail account holder and have been an ardent user since then. But when Gmail got old, I never loved email. It got boring and tiring.
Recently, I realised that I love sending and receiving emails. But I wouldn’t say I like Gmail.
iCloud was handling my custom email domain. But as I am not all in on the Apple ecosystem – with my Android and Linux – the experience with iCloud Mail is terrible. In short, I had to find a new solution for my personal and custom email domains.
I started with a trial of Fastmail, and I was unimpressed. No doubt, the email service is brilliant. It’s no-nonsense and has everything that an email power user would want. Nothing more and just the way an email service should work. I, however, am not a power user. Nor do I love the experience that the typical email services provide. I needed something different to rekindle my love for email.
That’s when I was reminded of HEY. The last time I tried it, I loved the service but didn’t need it. Here’s what I wrote while ending the trial.
All in all, HEY is a brilliant service with a fresh perspective towards the way we use our emails. It can potentially enliven the email offerings from all the players, just the away Gmail did back in 2004. But I don’t face the problem it is trying to solve; I have no use for all its groundbreaking features.
Why do I think I need it now? Well, to be frank. I still don’t. But I am falling in love with email again, and HEY’s unique take on how email should be done should help me stay en route. So, here’s to a new start for emails.
I enjoyed Tetris movie (funny I need to call it out - wish it was named better). I didn’t know the game had such a fascinating origin story. And I also didn’t know license negotiations can be made so intense. And fun. I was giggling at so many moments.
It’s a brilliant story wonderfully told.