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Check out our Episode 333 from August 21, 2024! Here are all the links we discussed in the show:

* How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction (Vox; 17 August 2024)

* Elon Musk's AI Image Generator Is a Deepfaker's Dream (LifeHacker; 15 August 2024)

* Flux Tools by Black Forest Labs (from Huggingface)

* Large language models can do jaw-dropping things. But nobody knows exactly why. (MIT Technology Review Podcast, 7 Aug 2024)

* Hackers leak 2.7 billion data records with Social Security numbers (Bleeping Computer; 11 August 2024)

* Massive data leak may include the personal data of every person in the US, UK, and Canada (9to5Mac, 13 Aug 2025)

* Forget Apple, the biggest loser in the Google search ruling could be Mozilla and its Firefox web browser (Fortune; 5 August 2024)

* Google Pixel 9 Pro and 9 Pro XL review: AI all over the place (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

* Google’s AI ‘Reimagine’ tool helped us add wrecks, disasters, and corpses to our photos (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

* Google Releases Powerful AI Image Generator You Can Use for Free (PetaPixel, 14 Aug 2024)

* US Navy Eyes Adopting SpaceX's Starlink Across Its Fleet (PC Magazine; 21 August 2024)

* Jason’s Geeks of the Week: Updates on Jason’s AI Local Models AnythingLLM - Ollama - LM Studio

* Wes’ Geeks of the Week: Learning Journal Lesson and https://usafacts.org/

Here are the links which made our show notes Google Doc, but we didn’t have time to discuss:

* Microsoft’s AI Can Be Turned Into an Automated Phishing Machine (Wired; 8 August 2024)

* This system can sort real pictures from AI fakes — why aren’t platforms using it? (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

* The AI photo editing era is here, and it’s every person for themselves (The Verge; 19 August 2024)

* Elon Musk’s AI photo tool is generating realistic, fake images of Trump, Harris and Biden (CNN; 15 August 2024)

* NoteGPT - YouTube Video Summarizer, PDF Summary, PPT Summary, Image Summaries, and more. Create PPTs, Mindmaps, and Notes with NoteGPT AI. Improve your learning efficiency by 10x.

* Google threatened tech influencers unless they ‘preferred’ the Pixel (The Verge; 16 August 2024)

* Microsoft’s Recall AI feature won’t be available for Windows testers until October (The Verge; 21 August 2024)

* ChatGPT makes Siri more intelligent in iOS 18: Here’s how (9 to 5 Mac; 21 August 2024)



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