Mark RickerbyMark Rickerby

Mark Rickerby has worked in the design and technology industry for nearly 20 years. He’s currently building tools for artists and writers to make use of generative methods and symbolic AI. He grew up in Porirua and Wellington and hopes he’ll be back there one day.

Machine-generated text is about to break the internet

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Five years ago, Mark Rickerby crafted code to analyse the full text of the Whaleoil blog after Dirty Politics. That experience, and the unveiling this month of a language model trained on internet text that can generate startlingly coherent prose, offer a profound warning of the dangers of allowing AI innovation to be controlled by … Read more