"...which was explicitly marketed as kind of a way to get sexy images from girls. The founders of #YouTube...were inspired by hotornot.com, and they were like, how can we do this for #video?...#facebook was the the initial iteration was ranking girls by appearance at #harvard...this stuff is...a 22 year old man's brain put into software that then changes the course of history, and that sort of audacity and recklessness continues today."

#jossfong pulls no punches. <applause>

Yesterday during my walk, I listened to two #podcasts, which by serendipity were about two tech journalists @jossfong and @karenhao.

#jossfong @thegradient
https://open.substack.com/pub/thegradientpub/p/joss-fong-videomaking-ai-science-communication

#karenhao @alex @emilymbender https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/14807430

Both are just fantastic on so many levels, but most importantly they discuss the effects the sudden #AI #LLM #GenAI boom has on them as women in #media.

Joss Fong takes no prisoners with a brutal takedown of #techbro culture at 57:41.

Joss Fong: Videomaking, AI, and Science Communication

On video journalism and science communication, bias in generative AI, incentives in journalism, and how video production is changing.

The Gradient

"#Space10 recently collaborated with video journalist #JossFong and designer #ÁronFilkey to explore the potential of using generative #AI for design. Instead of just starting from scratch with a publicly available generative AI model, the duo trained the #StableDiffusion image-generation model on Ikea catalogs from the 1970s and 1980s. "

#Ikea's #GenerativeAI #Furniture designs are trippy, retro, inspiring | #Design
https://www.fastcompany.com/90871133/ikea-generative-ai-furniture-design