Jonathan Snowden wrote an incredibly thoughtful article about ethics in MMA media, and journalism more broadly. What Snowden points out is just how arbitrary the lines of ethics often are in reporting. I have another point. Originally published at https://www.masonpelt.com on May 31, 2023. The ethical lines in reporting are…

First published in MasonPelt.com on May 30, 2023. Software is replacing artists and writers who enjoy their work while warehouse staffers pee in bottles to make quota. AI is turning into a shitty anti-utopia. As I write this, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) has been on strike for 28…

AI will not be our god. If it brings our demise, it will be because of human greed and stupidity. — Originally published at https://www.masonpelt.com on May 26, 2023. I wrote somewhat extensively about how generative AI’s are trained a few months ago. But here’s a three bullet point recap. Generative AI, whether text, audio or images requires a massive amount of training data. The training data, is almost always created…

The advertising economy is starting to resemble a collection of interconnected multi-level marketing schemes. Some kind of intermediary firm sits atop each pyramid brokering the serving of ads to eyeballs. Under that are ad agencies, and tech firms that work on sales and bid management. …

Hey [name], I’ve tried to reach you a few times, but haven’t heard back which tells me one of 50 things: You’re all set with your current Tech needs and I should stop bothering you. You’re still interested but haven’t had the time to get back to me yet. You…

To whom it may concern, people frequently post photos of tattoos shortly after getting them. Photos archive a moment in time. So the new ink, even when old and faded will always look new in the photo. At this point, it seems nearly certain that the Allen, Texas mall shooter…

“The article tells the story of a man who, after his father’s death, turned to GPT-4, an advanced language model, to analyze his father’s thousands of emails and try to generate new ones in his father’s voice.” So starts the ChatGPT summary of an article by Oliver Bateman, a digital…

The Business Of Helping Build Businesses by Mason Pelt was first published in HackerNoon on January 12, 2020. While This article was published first on HackerNoon, the website’s editorial team deleted it following a copyright dispute. This article is updated with more context and published in MasonPelt.com …

Today HackerNoon deleted not only my profile, and every article I’ve published on the site; they also deleted every article that referenced me. The reason for the erasure is a dispute about canonicalization for syndicated content. It’s as dumb and disrespectful to writers as it sounds. I syndicated multiple stories…