A Stable Diffusion review for people who operate an Amazon business. I finally had a chance to play around with Stable Diffusion, which uses a type of generative AI based on diffusion algorithms and millions of online image samples. Here’s my Prompt: “Family Tree Chart.” The results are below. It’s interesting as art, and maybe […]
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“There is not one answer.” Anyone who works on product development needs to read this MIT Technology Review article, which mentions some intriguing research by Professor Maria Yang on basic product design lessons, including sketching: “Yang has found that the very existence of those visual representations matters greatly: designers who do even basic, preliminary sketching
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Just as with CGI, digital cameras, word processors, and other media production tools introduced in decades past, human creators will learn to work with new AI text generators to create great media. This article notes human editors are involved at CNet to publish tech news articles using AI “writers.” This is absolutely required, not only
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“So you’re saying you know a guy who built a jet out of cardboard?” This is a line from an OpenAI Seinfeld animation that runs 24/7 on twitch. I discovered it via Hacker News. You can watch it as of early February 2023, while it’s still possible (I have a feeling rights-holders will take down
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Right now, we are witnessing a gigantic refocusing of publisher and tech interest in artificial intelligence, thanks to the success of new AI platforms like openAI and Stable Diffusion. For these platforms to work, they need data to create language models. Lots of data. As a publisher, I fear that Google Play Books may become
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Low content book scams have a new lease on life, thanks to AIs like ChatGPT. Irish author Séamas O’Reilly is bemused by the appearance of a summary of his own memoir, slapped together by an AI. Patricia T. Meyer’s debut is a machine-made facsimile of my book. It is not a book so much as
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Signs Amazon fulfillment centers are struggling to find workers: Recruitment ads now dangle the prospect of cool/cushy jobs to prospective warehouse workers. I spotted this Amazon warehouse recruitment ad on LinkedIn, which was likely shown to me because my profile mentions Amazon FBA: The training benefit is on top of perks added years ago, such
Check out the 60 Minutes episode on film composer Hans Zimmer (Dune, Gladiator, Lion King, Top Gun Maverick, and many more). Watching it brought back some fond memories of Lillie Yard, the London studio co-owned by Zimmer where I interned and worked part-time in the early 1990s. It’s shown briefly in the clip below at
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I watched this scammy KDP success video so you don’t have to, replete with bad advice about quitting your job to live off supposed Amazon KDP riches. Of course this is not possible, and what’s happening is the sincere-sounding “guru” is trying to sell a $1,500 masterclass. More details in this video:
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Some important things book publishers need to understand about Amazon, from a publisher who has been using Amazon to sell books for 10 years.
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