Are AI-Generated Images Fooling Us? July 19/25 update.

I want to remind my acquaintances about the risks of trusting news ads on social media. CBC posted the following tab on their home page: https://cbchelp.cbc.ca/hc/en-ca/articles/217731317-Is-this-CBC-story-or-ad-on-social-media-real My last blog post contained an AI-generated image of a black cat repairing a photovoltaic panel using some mysterious pipes and valves. The program DID capture the cat's fur... … Continue reading Are AI-Generated Images Fooling Us? July 19/25 update.

Political Paul, uses FIDO off-grid, and goes outside to do something analogue (February 21-22 Farm Report).

If you had the power to change one law, what would it be and why? Foreign aid. And by association, military aid. I am ashamed and disgusted at how much poverty exists in Canada. All of my citizens have the right to emergency health care, dental coverage, healthful food and safe drinking water, shelter, safety-and-security, … Continue reading Political Paul, uses FIDO off-grid, and goes outside to do something analogue (February 21-22 Farm Report).

Cultural Appropriation

PN is angry. When I got up this morning, TS showed me a news article on CBC. First Nation's advocate and musician Buffy Sainte-Marie isn't who she says she is. Her identity was a fabrication. And her birth family were silenced by the musician's legal team. I feel betrayed by this 82-year-old entertainer who profited … Continue reading Cultural Appropriation