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Bullshitmaxxing

By elsewares

May 18, 2026

Tokenmaxxing is like Looksmaxxing: Gamifying the Wrong Metric In Defense of TokenmaxxingMay 13, 2026 · Episode Links & TakeawaysThe AI Daily BriefAI Daily Brief In today's edition of the newsletter The AI Daily Brief, there was a defense of tokenmaxxing AI usage: the gamification by leaderboard and other incentives for companies to

AI and The Artist

By elsewares

June 02, 2024

Over on Facebook the other day, Tony Dowler, an artist whose work I admire (particularly his maps), posted this: Yesterday, I asked AI to produce some cover art for my games. The results were pretty astounding. I immediately thought that these were probably better covers than I could have created

Disaster At 1 MPH: AI's Creeping Existential Risk

By elsewares

November 24, 2023

I was already in the process of writing a response to this Big Technology article by Alex Kantrowitz when news of Sam Altman's ouster from OpenAI was announced Friday, and it took me until today to reorganize myself enough to respond. That was enough time to find out that Meta

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Copyleft: Make Generative AI Public Domain

By elsewares

November 04, 2023

Back in August, a federal judge decided that works of generative AI aren't protected by copyright, and I agree. AI accelerationists (and AI companies) disagree. Discourse!

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How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Weirdness of AI Art

By elsewares

October 30, 2023

Stripping down the amount of prompting that we give generative AI art models shows us what they -- and their trainers -- are really about.

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