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Voting opens for Oxford Word of the Year 2024 One of the options is slop! slop (n.): Art, writing, or other content generated using artificial intelligence, shared and distributed online in an indiscriminate or intrusive way, and characterized as being of low quality, inauthentic, or inaccurate. Via @dloss Tags: slop, ethics,...

Recraft V3 Recraft are a generative AI design tool startup based out of London who released their v3 model a few weeks ago. It's currently sat at the top of the Artificial Analysis Image Arena Leaderboard, beating Midjourney and Flux 1.1 pro. The thing that impressed me is that it can generate both raster and vector graphics... and the vector...

OpenAI Public Bug Bounty Reading this investigation of the security boundaries of OpenAI's Code Interpreter environment helped me realize that the rules for OpenAI's public bug bounty inadvertently double as the missing details for a whole bunch of different aspects of their platform. This description of Code Interpreter is significantly more...

PyPI now supports digital attestations Dustin Ingram: PyPI package maintainers can now publish signed digital attestations when publishing, in order to further increase trust in the supply-chain security of their projects. Additionally, a new API is available for consumers and installers to verify published attestations. This has been in the work...

QuickTime video script to capture frames and bounding boxes An update to an older TIL. I'm working on the write-up for my DjangoCon US talk on plugins and I found myself wanting to capture individual frames from the video in two formats: a full frame capture, and another that captured just the portion of the screen shared from my laptop. I have a...