A collection of interesting links that made me go, WTF?
Oct
22
Link: A look at some use cases of Anthropic's Claude Artifacts, which lets users create interactive single-page apps via prompts (Simon Willison/Simon Willison's Weblog)
1 min read
Oct
21
Link: Meta is testing the use of facial recognition to combat celebrity scam ads and to enable faster recovery of compromised accounts on Facebook and Instagram (Natasha Lomas/TechCrunch)
1 min read
Oct
19
Link: Notes on an inexpensive and effective "video scraping" technique in which the user feeds a screen recording into Google AI Studio to extract data with Gemini (Simon Willison's Weblog)
1 min read
Oct
19
Link: Students, academics, and developers say AI writing detectors are most likely to falsely flag essays written in a more generic manner as written by AI tools (Bloomberg)
1 min read
Oct
19
Link: AI researcher scrapes usable data from a 35-second screen recording for less than one cent via Google Gemini