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Tom Fishburne's cartoon sums it up. / via Sidebar

Thanks to Brand New I stumbled into the comment section of Pentagram's post about Paula Scher's work for performance.gov that used AI for illustrative icons. My curiousity has not resolved this rapid transformation of the design/illustration industry. It is happening and there are many angles to understanding — not just the creation of images, but how we receive them.

I fawn over everything I see from Smith & Diction, and this new look for an nutrition assistant co is right up there. What really struck me though was the use of AI for image assets using Visual Electric and some tight prompts that were folded into the identity guidelines and the app itself.

Not the most exciting of topics, but it’s becoming very clear that scams are ramping up with AI tools. I was reading how a faked voice fooled a single person at Retool in a phishing attack. I'm telling friends and family to be extra alert. Seth has a great checklist to consider.

Chrome extension to bring ChatGPT to a webpage by the minds at Fictive Kin / via Inspired By

An amusing use for artificial intelligence

His post describes a new app for group chat, built on privacy and fortified with (deep breath) A.I. So good he’s on board and makes a compelling case as to why.

David Friedman missed the funny pages. So he used ChatGPT to work through coding up a tool to select and deliver the dailies through a page generated by RSS feeds. One of the best uses of AI I’ve seen yet.

Outside of image generation and prose, it's interesting to understand a coding workflow. Matt Webb has thoughts and shares some insight and throws some bonus footnotes about language models. I particularly like this application angle to “parse intent instead of nouns”

Rick Waalders has created a sortable directory of AI tools plus a glossary and resources. Soon there will be an AI creating NCIS variants. / via sidebar

On how to train and develop prompts for impressive outputs of illustrated portraits of a person. Sidenote: Matt Haughey has been doubling down on posting short and longform content on his blog. So. Good.

Yup, more with the AI stuff. This particular thread by Sergei Galkin details the steps to transfer a physical toy to the digital world in very short order.

Andy Baio goes deep on the state of images generated from AI along with the ethical (and legal) debates. An excellent long read.

Change lighting of photos with AI. It's free, so there's all that comes with that. But it's also pretty dang good.

Two examples show another approach of how tools like Dall•E can generate imagery

Janelle Shane's AI Weirdness blog is great. This particular post makes me wondering about job security.