Alan Gilbertson

In Summer, anyway. Australia is at 1/3rd of homes on solar plus battery, an astonishing statistic in the face of rampant coal lobbying and climate denialism.

Please don't wreck Bluesky with political garbage the way MAGA wrecked Twitter. Enough, already!

YouTube video by CreativePro CreativePro Podcast: AI’s Impact on Creativity with Amy Balliett and Mark Heaps

An important discussion about the impact of AI on creative professions by two people at the leading edge of the field: Mark Heaps and Amy Balliet. This is for anyone who's a designer, photographer, or artist. #creativity #ai #design
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Igd...

Cross-Product Creative Challenge #7: Mystery Story Book Cover Welcome to the Cross-Product Creative Challenge. Thanks to everyone who participated in the Galactic Wildlife challenge. This one will demand a little more!   The Challenge: Design the cover for a mys...

If you're a creative, working with Adobe tools, feel free to join in my monthly Cross-Product Creative Challenge on the Adobe Firefly forum.
community.adobe.com/t5/adobe-fir...

AI as a Starting Point vs. Manual Craft: How Do You Balance the Two? Let's talk Harmonize I’ve always loved doing things manually — compositing by hand, building shadows, fine-tuning colors. That craft is what makes my work uniquely mine.   Photoshop’s new Harmonize feature (powered by Ado...

My friend Amybeth Menendez, a consummate professional in the world of print design, posted an excellent conversation starter on the Adobe Community forum. How do we integrate AI into a professional workflow where craft and detail matter most?
community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop...

I’ve spent a good chunk of my career relying on American science and engineering to keep me alive. Yesterday, RFK Jr. testified at the U.S. Senate Finance Committee. It was sad to see him try to destroy the life’s work of so many American scientists. He shouldn’t be in this job.

Effects of Scalable, Wordless, Short, Animated Storytelling Videos on Flu Vaccine Hesitancy in China: Nationwide, Single-Blind, Parallel-Group, Randomized Controlled Trial Background: Influenza vaccination rates in China remain low, posing a continuous and serious threat to public health. Influenza vaccinations have proven effective for preventing infection, but widespr...

I had no idea there was such a thing as "The Journal of Internet Medical Research." It really exists, and a new research paper on using short video to reduce vaccine hesitancy looks well done (and a good idea).
www.jmir.org/2025/1/e66758

More than a little misleading, especially with the GenAI image.

Magellan never said that. As far as I can tell, this was from an 1873 essay by an American evangelist of agnosticism called Robert Ingersoll. Belief in a flat Earth was never a dogma of any European or Middle Eastern church.

Here's the thing about AI-generated marketing:

That little shimmy a 0:02 is cute. 😉

RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vax Causes Deaths 'Every Year' Vaccine expert debunks recent statements from nation's top health official

RFK Jr. Falsely Claims Measles Vax Causes Deaths 'Every Year' www.medpagetoday.com/infectiousdi...

Poster image for the Print Design Summit

Print Design Summit coming up! Free tickets at this link: www.printdesignacademy.com/summit

Urban night scene. Menacing robot in foreground. Quote text: "The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." — H. L. Mencken

Fauci's Pardon: 'It's Really a Shame,' Public Health Officials Say Many saddened that it had to come to this

Consider the state of a society in which a lifelong dedication to saving lives is rewarded with political persecution and personal danger:
www.medpagetoday.com/special-repo...

YouTube video by Google DeepMind A New Age of Opportunity | AI for Science Forum

Anyone who uses or is interested in #AI should view the recent #AIforScience forum from the Royal Society and Google DeepMind. Playlist here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGsy...

Post from Jerome Adams on X showing statistical evidence that vaccination reduced COVID-19 deaths. 37.4% COVID deaths were unvaccinated, 0.8 percent deaths among fully vaccinated.

For your friends who are confused about vaccines. Florida surgeon-general take note.
#vaccines #science

An #AI prompted image is only the start. Use #Photoshop or #Illustrator and breathe life into it with photos, brushes, drawings, genFill, genExpand. A composite with your creativity in it is more alive, more interesting, and more satisfying than just generated pixels. #AIart

Stop using generative AI as a search engine Sometimes ChatGPT spits out something original — and wrong, like fake presidential pardons.

I use ChatGPT to help me write tutorials.
It is often WRONG. I think it’s a fantastic tool for subject matter experts to use who can distinguish what’s true and make corrections but don’t rely on it for the truth.

www.theverge.com/2024/12/5/24...

YouTube video by Google DeepMind Inside NotebookLM with Raiza Martin and Steven Johnson

Google's NotebookLM is evolving into an outstanding research tool. AND it's fun to play with. The "podcast" feature is getting the ability to take feedback from the director (you) and modify the "hosts'" conversation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=mccQ...

That is hilarious! 😂

That's a big ouch. We had no power for a while after Helene, and then again after Milton, but at least the climate here is a bit warmer! Hang in there, my friend.

Glad to know you're okay, sorry you're in a colder clime than I am. Hang in there, my friend!

Photo of a checkout screen at a local gyro place, posted by reddit user u/GrandpaGreybush, showing a logo created using generative AI.

When genAIs go bad:
Posted on the r/CrappyDesign subreddit by u/GrandpaGreybush, showing once again that it's not the genAI (or any kind of AI) we should be concerned about; it's the people who use it.
#genAIFail

For me, the ambiguity of scale (are those mountains and clouds, or rocks and surf?) elevates it from a great image to a brilliant piece of art. It shows the fractal nature of reality in a really compelling way.

The Turk - Chess Terms Learn everything about the Turk, the fake chess automaton that shocked the whole world!

Generative AI can be useful, useless, smart, dumb, and fun; just don't mistake it for intelligence. Brilliant clockwork automata were all the rage from the late 1700s to the mid-1800s, and plenty of smart people were fooled by their own confirmation bias. www.chess.com/terms/turk-c...

"Eight years" because this is a report from 2023, when he was still running for president.

The fourth image is beyond dramatic. The clouds are surf breaking over jagged rocks that are thousands of feet high. Brilliant.

The book is superbly thought out and obviously written with the intention that people should learn from it. When you opened with the advice that there are many forms of AI and the term is being used without defining it, I knew I'd bought the right book. Love the blog, too.