2025-06-07 13:09:07
Day 6 of the photo challenge, contrast. Jack London Square / C. L. Dellums Station in Oakland.
2025-06-07 11:35:43
For a minute I got really excited about this headline of a LoveFrom-designed electric bike from Rivian. But… a screen and it’s “bike-like”? I’ve been eyeing a new electric bike and always prefer something that looks like an actual, old-fashioned bike. No need to reinvent everything for this.
2025-06-07 09:45:37
Joanne Jang who works at OpenAI has a blog post on human-AI relationships:
…many people say “please” and “thank you” to ChatGPT not because they’re confused about how it works, but because being kind matters to them.
I read this last night and ever since I’ve been trying to figure out why I usually type to an AI chatbot with proper spelling and punctuation, even correcting my chat text when I make a typo. It doesn’t matter, the robots don’t care. But it’s almost like if I skip that step, if I’m careless, I’ve somehow compromised all of my writing.
2025-06-07 09:37:23
Reviewing my short post last night about the NYT vs. OpenAI data retention, maybe “wild” overreach was an unnecessary adjective. I also hadn’t seen OpenAI’s response:
As part of their baseless lawsuit, they’ve recently asked the court to force us to retain all user content indefinitely going forward, based on speculation that they might find something that supports their case.
There are very real fair-use questions for training, but I’m not sure they can be resolved by this lawsuit, and probably not without updating copyright law.
