James Marlowe

When AI "actress" Tilly Norwood was launched last month, Equity member Briony Monroe was indundated with messages asking if the AI model was her. Here Briony speaks to Good Morning Scotland about how the work of real creators is behind the machines.

enshittification | noun | when a digital platform is made worse for users, in order to increase profits

Clueless not to play the fixture at home too. Master stroke from Slot.

Different stories The narrative engine hits overdrive, already

Why didn't you just try to win, Arne?

Tell me you've never read chapter 31 of The Knife of Never Letting Go, without telling me....

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it’s so cool how almost everything is a scam and is simulatenously killing us

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Heard the one about how UK services exports were booming after Brexit??

Another myth, sadly...

My column

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Bidders demand Thames Water granted immunity over environmental crimes Exclusive: ‘Ransom note’ requests would leave Environment Agency unable to prosecute company or management

No-one, NO-ONE,should be granted a “request for near-blanket immunity for serious environmental crimes”

If the potential buyers of Thames Water can’t clean up, they shouldn’t be allowed to buy

www.theguardian.com/business/202...

A brown bunny sits with its eyes closed while four hands form a star shape with their fingers, touching the bunny's paws.

Bookshop: Buy books online. Support local bookstores. An online bookstore that financially supports local independent bookstores and gives back to the book community.

PLEASE don’t buy into Amazon’s booksale this week.

They are intentionally trying to eat into profits from Indie Bookstore Day this weekend, a really important annual event for our important community institutions.

Check out your local fave or bookshop.org.

Premier Sports Network: the company that plagiarised a writer’s work and then refused to pay for it What happens if a company steals from you? What if, say, a business called Premier Sports Network put an article on their website where over 95% of the more than 3,000 words were plagiarised, quite…

Imagine a company (we'll call them Premier Sports Network) published a 3,300w article on their website that was over 95% plagiarised word-for-word from your work. What would you do?

Well, I sent them an invoice. This is what happened next...
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I can practically see Al trying to smack some answers out of Ziggy in the stands.

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Would an exchange deal involving 25 left backs do the trick? 🤔

South downs giving big Icelandic vibes today. 🥶

#hike #southdowns

Absolute horror show wasn't it? 😭