caseynewton

caseynewton, 5 days ago to random

After a new investigation in the WSJ, I am once again asking: what is the conflict of interest policy at OpenAI?? https://www.platformer.news/openai-altman-investments-conflicts-wsj/

caseynewton, 4 days ago to random

There's yet another open letter from the AI safety crowd. If they want more people to take them seriously, they need to get more specific

https://www.platformer.news/tuesday-newsletter/

caseynewton, 8 days ago to random

It's Hard Fork Friday!! This week: eating rocks with Google's AI, Anthropic's Josh Batson on a fascinating breakthrough in understanding LLMs, and my brief time testing OpenAI's new voice assistant https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/31/podcasts/hardfork-google-overviews-anthropic-interpretability.html

caseynewton, 9 days ago to random

This year at Platformer we want to tell more stories about the web as it enters a state of managed decline. Here's @zoeschiffer interviewing a man whose independent games site was crushed by a change to Google's search rankings and its embrace of AI: https://www.platformer.news/google-retro-dodo-core-algorithm-change-ai-publishers/

Here's Retro Dodo's founder:

johnweeks, 9 days ago to random

@caseynewton Fediverse is remarkably absent of gossip, ads, influencers, stunts and 'tea'. They barely even have viral posts. Genuinely miss that stuff from my time on Twitter, between news and popular convos.

It's so boring, it's as if National Public Radio and a Linux listserv had a love child.

But Fedi is genuinely hard to game with money or a fake controversy. When things seem a little off on a busy news day, I tend to hop over here.

caseynewton, 11 days ago to random

I wrote about Google's AI search debacle, its leaked search ranking documents, and what they tell us about the future of the web https://www.platformer.news/google-ai-overviews-eat-rocks-glue-pizza/

caseynewton, 15 days ago to random

It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week: the Scarlett letter. Then, Noland Arbaugh, the first person to receive the Neuralink brain-computer interface, joins to talk about his experience https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/24/podcasts/scarjo-vs-chatgpt-neuralinks-first-patient-opens-up-and-microsofts-ai-pcs.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

caseynewton, 16 days ago to random

Did Altman pursue the Johansson deal on his own? No: the voice team knew about it, OpenAI told me today. My best effort to piece together the timeline: https://www.platformer.news/openai-scarlett-johansson-chatgpt-voice-her-altman/

caseynewton, 18 days ago to random

A few more words about the OpenAI / Scarlett Johansson situation https://www.platformer.news/platform-sales-tax-california-sb1327-glazer/

caseynewton, 19 days ago to random

The past week of news out of OpenAI illustrates how a company that once prized moving with caution is now dead set on winning at all costs, whatever Scarlett Johansson or anyone else thinks about it https://www.platformer.news/open-ai-scarlett-johansson-her-voice-sam-altman/

caseynewton, 23 days ago to random

When social justice protests swept the country in 2020, tech companies mostly welcomed employee activism. The Gaza demonstrations are getting a much different reception. @zoeschiffer talked to folks at Apple, Google Amazon, and Coinbase about it: https://www.platformer.news/tech-protests-gaza-israel-workplace-activism/

caseynewton, 26 days ago to random

Most AI chatbots are cold and clinical. OpenAI's new voice mode for ChatGPT is warm and flirty. That could have big, unpredictable consequences https://www.platformer.news/openai-gpt-4o-chatgpt-voice-vision/

caseynewton, 22 days ago to random

It’s Hard Fork Friday! This week: OpenAI’s pivot to flirting, Google puts the web into managed decline, and a round of HatGPT https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/podcasts/hardfork-gpt4o-ai-overviews.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

kylebennett, 7 months ago to random

@caseynewton
What is I just bonk you when I laugh listening to the Hardfork podcast? Might end up feeling like harassment, but I’m just trying to broadcast my enjoyment 😂

caseynewton, 25 days ago to random

With today’s announcements at Google I/O, the web has entered a state of managed decline https://www.platformer.news/google-io-ai-search-sundar-pichai/

mike, 25 days ago to random

@caseynewton Love the new Platformer logo.

caseynewton, 29 days ago to random

It’s Hard Fork Friday! Kevin has 18 AI friends now and it’s time to interview one of them https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/10/podcasts/hard-fork-ai-friends.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=c-cb

caseynewton, 30 days ago to random

I wrote about Reddit, Stack Overflow, and how this new more extractive era of the internet has changed the bargain between platforms and users https://www.platformer.news/ai-data-licensing-reddit-stack-overflow-protest-openai/