Gavin Starks

@agentGav
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Mostly curious about everything.
Bioghttps://dgen.net/biog
Musichttps://binarydust.org
Work (climate)https://ib1.org
Socialshttps://dgen.net/0/connect
Show threadGavin Starks2d ago
https://www.linkedin.com/news/story/scramble-for-human-made-labelling-8525650/
Artists, authors and filmmakers are demanding clear 'AI-free' labels as AI-generated books, films and music…

Artists, authors and filmmakers are demanding clear 'AI-free' labels as AI-generated books, films and music flood the market, blurring authorship and threatening livelihoods.

LinkedIn News
Gavin Starks2d ago

"Meta will be able to see the contents of messages between all users – which so far it only could for those who did not enable encryption."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/18/instagram-to-remove-end-to-end-encryption-for-private-messages-in-may

Instagram to remove end-to-end encryption for private messages in May

Meta’s announcement comes after years of criticism from child safety groups over feature

The Guardian
Gavin Starks2d ago
"You cannot manage what you refuse to see"
Gavin Starks2d ago
National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/03/national-academies-of-sciences-resisting-pressure-to-pull-climate-info/
National Academies of Sciences says no to demands it remove climate info

State attorneys general won't get climate chapter removed from a legal manual.

Ars Technica
Gavin Starks3d ago
Well, after an evening of seeing if I could get https://secondpress.club to support Tidal or Apple Music, the answer is (a) Tidal's API isn't set really up to do this yet and would need a whole other level of faff for me and users, and (b) Apple is _possible_ but very convoluted (and needs a paid dev account). So, world's tiniest hat tip to Spotify for at least letting people get their own data and world's most irritating crumbs in the keyboards of the other guys.
SecondPress — Turn your Spotify playlist into a record collection

Paste any Spotify playlist and we'll check every album for CD and vinyl availability, with links to buy from many retailers.

SecondPress
Gavin Starks4d ago

Today in, no, we're not ready

"people were being put at risk of harm by false and misleading health information in Google AI Overviews. The AI-generated summaries are shown to 2 billion people a month, and appear above traditional search results on the world’s most visited website."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/16/google-scraps-ai-search-feature-that-crowdsourced-amateur-medical-advice

Google scraps AI search feature that crowdsourced amateur medical advice

Exclusive: Revelation comes as company faces mounting scrutiny over use of AI to provide health tips

The Guardian
Gavin StarksFeb 27

I made a thing. I hope you like it
https://SecondPress.club
(feel free to share)

here's why I made it
https://dgen.net/0/2026/02/25/discovery-collection-connection/

Gavin StarksFeb 25

Turning your Spotify playlist into a record collection, and why that could be really disruptive

https://dgen.net/0/2026/02/25/discovery-collection-connection

Gavin StarksFeb 14

New blog:
Data infrastructure as economic power

Those who set the rules and govern data flows, control the value

https://agentgav.medium.com/data-infrastructure-as-economic-power-7a9753345e57

Gavin StarksFeb 9
think we need some warning labels, just not sure which font would suit them best (silly font to make them seem like they're still not ready/playing around, or serious to underscore an actual warning?)