Call me an optimist.
As someone who has regularly published on the web for almost 30 years, I’m hoping the artificial intelligence (AI) craze that started when ChatGPT (generative pre-trained transformer) was released in late 2022 is a phase that ends soon.
Rather than AI being the end of the web.
Continue reading Is the Web Ending?
When I learned Figma, the popular design platform, announced Artificial Intelligence (AI) features at their June 2024 annual conference (Wayback Machine), I shook my head.
Over the past couple years, I’ve become frustrated with companies (especially design tool companies) announcing new AI features, since many companies train their AI models on user-generated content.
Without giving customers/members the ability to opt-out or remove their content before training begins.
Continue reading Vimeo and AI: Prioritizing Community
If you use DuckDuckGo as your search engine, be aware the Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assist feature is turned on by default.
For people who don’t want AI used in their DuckDuckGo search results, you’ll need to turn AI Assist off in each of your browsers (desktop and mobile) as well as in the DuckDuckGo app.
Which is what I did.
Continue reading Quick Tip: How to Turn off DuckDuckGo’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) Assist Feature for Search