Author: Fitz Thiar
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I wasn’t ready for the AI sass
No, that’s not a typo. I didn’t misspell “SaaS” (software as a service). I’m talking “sass” as in sassy, impertinent, cheeky, or even rude. You may have noticed that I write about artificial intelligence quite a lot, particularly generative AI models that can create new content like text, images or even computer code. Generative AI (gen-AI) is often used interchangeably with LLMs (large language models) like Claude, Gemini, and ChatGPT, even though it includes a range of other model types you don’t usually hear about from regular media. This conflation irritates me, but not as much as gen-AI and LLMs…
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Regulate us: AI doomerism is just good marketing
I was going to start this piece about AI companies demanding regulation with a Warren G joke, but I think most of you may be too young to get it. That song came out 32 years ago. I’m old. The more stories I see about gen-AI companies bending over like rent boys at a billionaire’s birthday party and begging to be regulated by governments, the more I’m convinced it is all just another ruse, another marketing scam, another cock-tease to keep investors hard and sending money their way. As we hear more “whistleblowers” do media exclusives where they wail on…
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