Vol 10: 05/24/24 — Six Links Worthy of your Attention
OpenAI, Whatsapp India, Asking smarter questions, Taylor Swift, Singapore Airlines, Photo of the week
1. Charlie Warzel on OpenAI’s Scarlett Johansson debacle. "On its own, this seems to be yet another example of a tech company blowing past ethical concerns and operating with impunity. But the situation is also a tidy microcosm of the raw deal at the center of generative AI, a technology that is built off data scraped from the internet, generally without the consent of creators or copyright owners." The Johansson scandal is merely a reminder of AI’s manifest-destiny philosophy: This is happening, whether you like it or not."
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/openai-just-gave-away-the-entire-game/ar-BB1mNZSO
2. How Modi and the BJP use WhatsApp for grass-roots politics in India. LINK
https://restofworld.org/2024/bjp-whatsapp-modi/
3. The art of asking smarter questions
https://hbr.org/2024/05/the-art-of-asking-smarter-questions?
4. With a mix of prolific artistic output and relentless business savvy, plus cultural dominance as a celebrity, Swift, 34, has created such a swell of momentum that she is probably more popular — more omnipresent — 19 years into her professional music career than she ever has been. That is not normal. But just how big is Taylor Swift, in terms of the all-time pop pantheon?"
5. The mechanics of turbulence. What happened to Singapore Airlines flight SQ321 and why?
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/SINGAPOREAIRLINES-THAILAND/movaqnmeava/
6. Finally, photo of the week.
https://www.ksbw.com/article/man-strikes-back-against-seaside-order-with-boat-mural/60749038?