thisisadam

AI optimist, Digital Creator, Entrepreneur

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

The Kimmies Virtual Gallery is live, have a look at some of the artworks in the NFT series
https://t.co/Gwp2xrw99D

@TheKimmies @spatialxr #thekimmies #Metaverse #web3 #nftart #nftcollectors

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@a16z @Scobleizer There's 2 words I didn't expect in the same sentence 🫠

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@ericw_ai The analogy of asking people vs watching them brings up some ethical questions about consent and privacy that have been overlooked… 👀

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@TaraBull Docking

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@BrianRoemmele Must have been the gloves 🤣

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@MarioNawfal Cooked

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

This makes me feel great having Agency + AI 😁

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Agency > Intelligence

I had this intuitively wrong for decades, I think due to a pervasive cultural veneration of intelligence, various entertainment/media, obsession with IQ etc. Agency is significantly more powerful and significantly more scarce. Are you hiring for agency? Are we educating for agency? Are you acting as if you had 10X agency?

Grok explanation is ~close:

“Agency, as a personality trait, refers to an individual's capacity to take initiative, make decisions, and exert control over their actions and environment. It’s about being proactive rather than reactive—someone with high agency doesn’t just let life happen to them; they shape it. Think of it as a blend of self-efficacy, determination, and a sense of ownership over one’s path.

People with strong agency tend to set goals and pursue them with confidence, even in the face of obstacles. They’re the type to say, “I’ll figure it out,” and then actually do it. On the flip side, someone low in agency might feel more like a passenger in their own life, waiting for external forces—like luck, other people, or circumstances—to dictate what happens next.

It’s not quite the same as assertiveness or ambition, though it can overlap. Agency is quieter, more internal—it’s the belief that you *can* act, paired with the will to follow through. Psychologists often tie it to concepts like locus of control: high-agency folks lean toward an internal locus, feeling they steer their fate, while low-agency folks might lean external, seeing life as something that happens *to* them.”

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@NikkeiAsia Hence the social unrest

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

You paid for your Nvidea chips,
You paid for your rent,
You paid millions for your staff,
…so just pay the F*@KING creatives!!

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

AI bots crawling websites are breaking the internet. There are 2 reasons why people create content: for financial gain or fame, and today, both these models are being disrupted under the guise of "fair use". Hopefully, the class actions can set a precedent for content owners.

[Triplegangers @triplegangers]

We are receiving tens of thousands of crawling requests from openai . com/gptbot, which is used to scrape data by OpenAI to train generative AI models. This has caused our website to go down for periods of time over the last few days. Which interrupted our normal operations.

Triplegangers' Terms of Use explicitly forbid any AI company from using crawling bots or downloading any of our content for any purpose. Every image on triplegangers . com is copyrighted for this specific reason.

Official Statement to OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google and other companies using crawlers: Other than page indexing for search purposes, the use of crawlers on our website is strictly forbidden. The use of any publicly available content from our website for AI or ML applications is strictly prohibited without obtaining a valid license.
#openai #ai #generativeai #chatgpt #gptbot #bingbot #meta #Googlebot #google

[Olima_Omega @Paul_Olima]

Reupload as it was deleted at 10 million views 😅 (TT//showpo & IG//tbhskincare)

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

Worthy to hear from both sides… https://t.co/Aob2St5Fuu

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

@antoinette_news here we go… time to lawyer up!

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

This has the potential to be bigger than the Microsoft Anti-trust case in the 2000’s. about time some pressure was applied to break up the monopolies…

[Bloomberg @business]

Two decades after failing to dismantle Microsoft, the US Justice Department is considering the rare move to break up Google https://t.co/aW1SBRoDnK

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@The_AdProfessor Privacy and disclosure is going to wipe these content creators out if they don’t #Sponsored

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

My dream is to reach Uranus 💫

[thisisadam @thisisadam]

The connection / stupidity relationship people share with their phones would be an eye opening study 😳 just watched a girl drop her phone under a tram coming into the station. Without a thought she tried to pick it up and got hit by the opening door. 🤪

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@_domchantal Yeah I felt it too in Ubud

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2024 is going to be a formative year...

🥁 Marketing, Sales + Customer Operations could drive most of Generative Ai's impact across business

The grown-ups are fighting and everything is at stake

🔍 Anthropic takes the lead with copyright clarity...

https://t.co/NupywLE9NP

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@Jason Do it

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@Mic_James_W @ellymelly Although current experience of tech improvements have just allowed work to fill more voids