Open AI allows the ‘paying customer’ to freely use the images produced by the Dall-E text-to-image, as long as they indicate that it was made via the platform. This means, reading the clause ‘backwards’, nothing prohibits the company from restricting authors’ rights to the prompt – the description users provide to the software to obtain an image by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian by Strategikon – an Italian Tech Blog. Continue reading “When Ideas become the New Currency. A text-to-image Vexatious Clause”
When the Ghost talks to the Shell
When an AI wonders how to board its power bank
Science between Socrates and Gorgias
The change in the Italian government’s approach to the management of Covid-19 has revived buzzwords such as ‘believing in Science’ and ‘trusting Scientists’ in the public debate. Like any (highly respectable) religious belief, ‘Science’ is elevated to the status of a deity to be worshipped uncritically through a host of saints and preachers. In Her name, beatifications, excommunications, auto-da-fé and (cultural) trials are promoted, reminiscent of those that condemned Guglielmo Piazza and Gian Giacomo Mora as untori —infecters. There has been no shortage, on the other hand, of charlatans, heirs of Alexander of Abonuteichos, and a myriad of individual ‘cults’ resulting from the arrogance, a sign of our times, of ‘knowing what they do not tell us’ in pure Napalm 51 style by Andrea Monti – Initially published in Italian on Strategikon – an Italian Tech blog. Continue reading “Science between Socrates and Gorgias”
When even an AI can not stand the ‘smart’ ad it created
