THE VERGE Tuesday July 11, 2023
YouTube is throwing a major wrench into video playback for viewers who are using ad blockers, notes The Verge: It is currently running what it describes as “a small experiment globally that urges viewers with ad blockers enabled to allow ads on YouTube or try YouTube Premium.” The statement comes after some people began noticing a new prompt warning that video playback could be cut off if YouTube detects repeated use of ad blocking tools. “We take disabling playback very seriously, and will only disable playback if viewers ignore repeated requests to allow ads on YouTube,” said a spokesman.
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David Schonauer Tuesday July 11, 2023
"What began a few months ago as a slow drip of fund-raising emails and promotional images composed by A.I. for political campaigns has turned into a steady stream of campaign materials created by the
technology, rewriting the political playbook for democratic elections around the world." So noted The New York Times in a recent report on the dangerous prospects of artificial intelligence and how … Read the full Story >>
THE VERGE Monday July 10, 2023
The web has been dying for years, done in by apps that divert traffic from websites or algorithms that reward supposedly shortening attention spans. But in 2023, it’s dying again, and this time the culprit is generative AI models that are changing the online economy, making it cheaper to generate lower-quality content, and we’re just beginning to see the effects of these changes, notes The Verge.
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CNN Monday July 10, 2023
At the turn of the 20th century, the studio run by Norwegian photographers Bolette Berg and Marie Høeg had a secret second purpose. During the day, it operated as a conventional atelier in the coastal town of Horten, but after hours it became a clandestine gathering space for politically-minded women. Decades after their deaths in the 1940s, another radical aspect of their lives resurfaced, notes CNN: glass negatives that depict the couple eschewing traditional gender norms in playful portraits they took of themselves and loved ones.
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