Doomscrolling Blues: Reclaiming positivity in social media – Technollama
A common theme here at Llama Towers is to talk about our changing relationship with the Internet as a whole, and with social media specifically. I was both an early…
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How many people are using generative AI on a daily basis? A Gemini report – Technollama
I’m currently on sabbatical finishing a couple of papers, and I wanted to find a figure for a footnote. How many daily users are there for generative AI apps? Simple…
20 years of TechnoLlama – Technollama
On the 20th of October 2024, this blog turned 20 years old. I’ve been both dreading and looking forward to this milestone. On the one hand, this is probably one…
The problem with academic publishing – Technollama
My social media timeline has started filling up with angry reactions to the news that several academic publishers have been licensing academic works to AI companies for training purposes without…
What can internet history teach us? – Technollama
People involved in the Internet Regulation area have a recurring joke that the field is like being stuck in some form of digital Groundhog Day, in which we are re-living…
What’s the status of AI and copyright? – Technollama
It’s been an interesting couple of years here in Llama Towers. While AI has long been a subject of interest to this blog, it’s undeniable that the subject has exploded…
The Scarlett Letter: Impersonation, publicity rights, and AI assistants – Technollama
If you’re at all interested in artificial intelligence, and if you’re reading this I suspect that you may be, you will probably already be aware about the dispute between OpenAI…
The rise and rise of the online content creation industry – Technollama
Something interesting is happening in the creative industries. Granted, there is always something interesting happening, although it usually involves excessive displays of wealth, or the rivalry of musical artists. However,…
Moonbirds and CC0: Problems with NFT licensing and the public domain – Technollama
It’s been a while since we talked about NFTs here at Llama Towers, this is mostly because not a lot has been happening, but it is also due to most…
To delve or not to delve: AI detection made easy? – Technollama
There’s growing controversy online about the use of the word “delve” as an easy detector of whether a text has been written by an AI. I have to admit that…
The end of the online mob and the end of shared reality – Technollama
I have to admit that I have always been a realist, yet, when it comes to technology, I tend to side with the enthusiastic optimists. For many years, I shared…
Forgotten Dystopias: The Godlike AI That Time Forgot – Technollama
If I were to ask you about a film depiction of artificial intelligence, there are quite a few candidates that would pop into one’s head. My mind tends to immediately…