☠️ Tech for Death, ✍️ Prep for Annual Reviews, & Some 🤯 New Media
Volume 12
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➡️ It’s that time of year… annual performance reviews. And they are on the minds of many SiSo members. Curious what tips and tricks we shared with our crew? Peek into our Prep for Your Annual Review workshop.
➡️ SiSo members shadow our engineers to pick up new skills - and engage with innovators in tech for inspiration. We’re opening up the Q&A for today’s recorded talk with Weilin Wang, Founder of Care Registries, to our Newsletter Crew (that’s you 😉). Submit questions today.
Curated media from the past few weeks:
Well, this was bound to happen. Over 47% of blogs posted to Medium in a recent six-week period were likely AI generated. But shockingly, Medium’s leadership doesn’t mind. Read this article to learn why and how they hope AI detection tools improve in the future.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “The tags with the most likely AI-generated content included ‘NFT’—out of 5,712 articles tagged with this phrase over the last several months, Pangram found that 4,492, or around 78 percent, came back as likely AI-generated—as well as ‘web3,’ ‘ethereum,’ ‘AI,’ and, for whatever reason, ‘pets.’”
Create Stunning Images with the New Stable Diffusion 3.5 Large
Stability AI has just released Stable Diffusion 3.5, the most powerful model in the Stable Diffusion family yet, with 8 billion parameters for producing high-quality images with incredible precision (FYI - That’s a lot!). In this video tutorial, Robert Sharp, Lead Data Scientist at Silicon Society, guides you step-by-step through generating your first image locally with Stable Diffusion 3.5.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “A whimsical & creative image that depicts a creature that is a mix of waffle and hippopotamus basking in a river of molten butter. Okay…let’s see how this turns out.”
We love a good think piece, and this one is 🤯. The concern about privacy online goes beyond data collection and into a fundamental struggle with power, trust, relationships, and autonomy. With an excellent analogy to early opinions of public photography, this article won’t let you think about privacy the same again.
🗯️Quotable Bit: “For Pressly, our obscurities are precisely what endow us with a sense of value that exceeds our usefulness. This, in turn, helps assure us that life is worth living, and that our fellow human beings are worthy of our trust. ‘There can be no trust of any sort without some limits to knowledge,’ Pressly writes.”