20240630
“Proof of human” behind a creation will become a signal of meaning. As every brand increasingly “floods the zone” with AI-generated and hyper-personalized content, we will crave story, craft, and meaning more than ever before. And nothing strengthens meaning more than authenticity. Scott Belsky
Society: SciFi and farright (FR). Sea levels and insurances. Canada free grocery. Starbucks slows its third-place flavor. Where does time go, with age? Slop. What if China took Taiwan .. by air. Friendshoring. The Pentagon has run antivax campaigns.
Art: The Order of the Third Bird (and some weird PDF). Anti facial recognition cloth.
Futures: Design foresight. BCG take on future of work.
Tech: Doing OSINT on Discord. Global defence budget up again (2.4tr$). ‘Now’ pages (they are listed!). Lab grown diamonds take over. Marine plastic eating fungus (now #4)? Robots in restaurants. CISA did an AI tabletop exercise. MS AI Platform shift interview.
Random: good stuff from resumes. News from the Pirate Party. Do plants have minds.
AI: to remove angry customers voices. As interviewers. PwC and OpenAI - 100k PwC workers on ChatGPT. AI, LLMs, and cyber insurers. Results as a service. Extremists using AI. AI and research. Situational awareness [PDF]. Anticipating heart attacks.