Kevin Donnellan

Now that people are on BlueSky I can reshare the fire I was posting this time LAST YEAR

I spoke with Kelly McKernan about how generative AI is affecting creatives veryexplainable.substack.com/p/the-artist...

Journalism is failing to deal with AI And that's a big problem

My latest on THAT AI newsroom video, the Axel Springer deal with OpenAI and what it means for journalism

that and worker's rights

a challenge in writing about AI and creativity is that from the outset most potential readers assume you're an AI evangelist when, actually, all my writing is about how crap most AI currently is from a creative perspective

I wrote about Gemini

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On Sports Illustrated, content heists and why AI takes the heat off silly executive thinking

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On Sports Illustrated, content heists and why AI takes the heat off silly executive thinking

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Go to lots more conferences since starting Explainable and, after years of hating networking, have belatedly realized you can just walk up to groups of people and stand there looking gormless until they speak to you. And they won't judge you because it's a conference.

Secret use of #generativeAI by workers is fine, but it will result in workers getting screwed over en masse if we don't rethink what work means

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Secret use of #generativeAI by workers is fine, but it will result in workers getting screwed over en masse if we don't rethink what work means

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On Sam Altman and other small bits At some point in the next five years, some big-name actors playing far more handsome versions of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will star in an Oscar-bait drama that hinges on the events across the week...

I wrote a little about Open AI and a lot about a bunch of other stuff

I wrote about the hands-down best thing on YouTube these days, Bobby Fingers' incredible videos

I wrote about the hands-down best thing on YouTube these days, Bobby Fingers' incredible videos

Guy who only has 90s Don Johnson vehicle Nash Bridges as a cultural touchstone: "OK calm down Nash Bridges 😉"

Custom GPTs are exciting the blue tick hype merchants, so they obviously underdeliver. I still think they are a breakthrough moment for AI though

Everything you need to know about Custom GPTs And why they promise more than they deliver

I wrote about it here open.substack.com/pub/veryexpl...

Custom GPTs are exciting the blue tick hype merchants, so they obviously underdeliver. I still think they are a breakthrough moment for AI though

Fake war images and the death of stock photography On stock images, conflict footage and job loss

Stock photography is quickly dying as a career option. I wrote about that. veryexplainable.substack.com/p/fake-war-i...

Expert Interview #3: The creative coder Speaking about AI and creativity

I spoke to the guy who created an infinite conversation between AI Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žiže.

Giacomo Miceli had some really thoughts about AI, art and the future for creatives

Expert Interview #3: The creative coder Speaking about AI and creativity

I spoke to the guy who created an infinite conversation between AI Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žiže.

Giacomo Miceli had some really thoughts about AI, art and the future for creatives

The two conflicting AI safety worriers Why talk of existential threat can silence more mundane concerns

Wrote about the two types of AI worriers at the #AISafetySummit and how they link to effective altruism. Also, TIL text-to-image tools can't do dormant volcanos.

The two conflicting AI safety worriers Why talk of existential threat can silence more mundane concerns

Wrote about the two types of AI worriers at the #AISafetySummit and how they link to effective altruism. Also, TIL text-to-image tools can't do dormant volcanos.

Halloween is good actually because we now know 4 more neighbours and they now definitively know that our kids are cute as fuck

Why ChatGPT says this is an orange Hidden text is making ChatGPT look dishonest

today I wrote about ChatGPT getting tricked into saying an apple was an orange

The lonely world of the AI 'companion' user Plus LEGO Jesus

Wrote about AI and loneliness. It's lovely to have a platform where I can just share what I wrote and know followers will actually see that post ☺️

The lonely world of the AI 'companion' user Plus LEGO Jesus

Wrote about AI and loneliness. It's lovely to have a platform where I can just share what I wrote and know followers will actually see that post ☺️

If I'm talking to another parent and they're not into Bluey I sometimes write them off as people 😬

What ChatGPT gets right, and wrong, with image search I have dabbled with a few social media accounts for Explainable since launching. Musk-era Twitter is dead for publishers and I’m not feeling Threads so I’m going all in on Bluesky. You can find me...

I looked at the ChatGPT-4 with images experiments going viral and what the mean for the tool. Also its massive missed opportunity when it comes to visual misinformation #openai #chatgpt4