I tested the groundbreaking new visual version of OpenAI’s chatbot — This week, OpenAI released a groundbreaking addition to their popular ChatGPT platform. In addition to processing text, ChatGPT is now able to process and chat about images. It’s hard to overstate how big a deal this is. As much as 70% of content currently on the Internet is visual rather…

Here’s what to do if your site is impacted — For independent bloggers, it’s a bloodbath right now. Late last week, Google released a new Helpful Content Update. These updates bring changes to how the search engine ranks web pages. The result of this update has been anything but helpful for site owners and independent bloggers. Many have reported traffic…

The results blew me away — You don’t appreciate your voice fully until you can’t use it. I’m a YouTuber, and as a writer I also often use my voice to dictate blog posts. It’s a great way to increase my productivity, and in video content, my voice becomes part of my brand. That’s all well…

Genocide, slavery and spices — Pumpkin spice is all the rage these days. The flavor has become synonymous with fall, and for many people invokes the joy of the changing seasons. What most people don’t realize, though, is that there’s a dark colonial past behind this seemingly modern, carefree flavor. It includes slavery, corruption, and…

You Can Visit Him for Free — You might expect the Mountain View, California headquarters of Google to be a serious, business-like place. Google is one of the world’s largest companies after all, and it controls about 90% of the search engine market. But Google’s HQ is anything but boring. Case in point: Stan. Who or what…

An amazing AI tool in my photography kit — As a professional photographer, I often take photos that are great from a content perspective but need a bit of technical work to be publishable. Maybe the focus is a little off, or I took the photo in a low-light environment and there’s a lot of noise. Or maybe the…

What that means for humans, and how to avoid AI alienation — Most people have never heard of the 20th-century French philosopher Gilbert Simondon. His books are rarely translated, and even more rarely read. That’s a shame. His work is absolutely crucial to understanding modern generative AI. It should be required reading. Specifically, his arguments — made in the 1950s–suggest that systems…

Try it out for yourself and share your thoughts — Since I made the fateful decision to sign up as an OpenAI Beta tester back in 2020, I’ve used AI for a lot of things — branding a publication, creating art, and even becoming a Spotify musician with 38k streams. But there’s one stupidly-simple AI function that I’ve found myself…

And why I’ll never trust online content again — Last year, I took a $7 per hour writing job from a company I’d never heard of, and that I found through a random post on social media. I ended up as a low-level ghostwriter and human content spinner, churning out blog posts on tight deadlines for way less than…