Kevin Donnellan
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Kevin Donnellan
@explainable.bsky.social
Journalist and Tech person

Was @Kevind04 on The Bad Place

Ex Storyful, ex Meta, write stories sometimes

https://veryexplainable.substack.com/
Now that people are on BlueSky I can reshare the fire I was posting this time LAST YEAR
Guy who only has 90s Don Johnson vehicle Nash Bridges as a cultural touchstone: "OK calm down Nash Bridges 😉"
November 20, 2024 at 7:51 PM
I spoke with Kelly McKernan about how generative AI is affecting creatives veryexplainable.substack.com/p/the-artist...
March 7, 2024 at 1:38 PM
My latest on THAT AI newsroom video, the Axel Springer deal with OpenAI and what it means for journalism
Journalism is failing to deal with AI
And that's a big problem
open.substack.com
December 14, 2023 at 7:40 PM
a challenge in writing about AI and creativity is that from the outset most potential readers assume you're an AI evangelist when, actually, all my writing is about how crap most AI currently is from a creative perspective
December 13, 2023 at 7:25 PM
December 8, 2023 at 7:15 PM
Reposted by Kevin Donnellan
On Sports Illustrated, content heists and why AI takes the heat off silly executive thinking

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November 28, 2023 at 12:26 PM
On Sports Illustrated, content heists and why AI takes the heat off silly executive thinking

open.substack.com/pub/veryexpl...
November 28, 2023 at 12:26 PM
Go to lots more conferences since starting Explainable and, after years of hating networking, have belatedly realized you can just walk up to groups of people and stand there looking gormless until they speak to you. And they won't judge you because it's a conference.
November 27, 2023 at 8:27 PM
Reposted by Kevin Donnellan
Secret use of #generativeAI by workers is fine, but it will result in workers getting screwed over en masse if we don't rethink what work means

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November 23, 2023 at 1:55 PM
Secret use of #generativeAI by workers is fine, but it will result in workers getting screwed over en masse if we don't rethink what work means

open.substack.com/pub/veryexpl...
November 23, 2023 at 1:55 PM
I wrote a little about Open AI and a lot about a bunch of other stuff
On Sam Altman and other small bits
At some point in the next five years, some big-name actors playing far more handsome versions of Sam Altman and Greg Brockman will star in an Oscar-bait drama that hinges on the events across the week...
open.substack.com
November 21, 2023 at 1:01 PM
Reposted by Kevin Donnellan
I wrote about the hands-down best thing on YouTube these days, Bobby Fingers' incredible videos
November 16, 2023 at 2:10 PM
I wrote about the hands-down best thing on YouTube these days, Bobby Fingers' incredible videos
November 16, 2023 at 2:10 PM
Guy who only has 90s Don Johnson vehicle Nash Bridges as a cultural touchstone: "OK calm down Nash Bridges 😉"
November 14, 2023 at 9:47 PM
Reposted by Kevin Donnellan
Custom GPTs are exciting the blue tick hype merchants, so they obviously underdeliver. I still think they are a breakthrough moment for AI though
November 14, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Custom GPTs are exciting the blue tick hype merchants, so they obviously underdeliver. I still think they are a breakthrough moment for AI though
November 14, 2023 at 2:30 PM
Stock photography is quickly dying as a career option. I wrote about that. veryexplainable.substack.com/p/fake-war-i...
Fake war images and the death of stock photography
On stock images, conflict footage and job loss
veryexplainable.substack.com
November 10, 2023 at 3:35 PM
Reposted by Kevin Donnellan
I spoke to the guy who created an infinite conversation between AI Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žiže.

Giacomo Miceli had some really thoughts about AI, art and the future for creatives
Expert Interview #3: The creative coder
Speaking about AI and creativity
veryexplainable.substack.com
November 8, 2023 at 12:19 PM
I spoke to the guy who created an infinite conversation between AI Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žiže.

Giacomo Miceli had some really thoughts about AI, art and the future for creatives
Expert Interview #3: The creative coder
Speaking about AI and creativity
veryexplainable.substack.com
November 8, 2023 at 12:19 PM
Reposted by Kevin Donnellan
Wrote about the two types of AI worriers at the #AISafetySummit and how they link to effective altruism. Also, TIL text-to-image tools can't do dormant volcanos.
The two conflicting AI safety worriers
Why talk of existential threat can silence more mundane concerns
veryexplainable.substack.com
November 2, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Wrote about the two types of AI worriers at the #AISafetySummit and how they link to effective altruism. Also, TIL text-to-image tools can't do dormant volcanos.
The two conflicting AI safety worriers
Why talk of existential threat can silence more mundane concerns
veryexplainable.substack.com
November 2, 2023 at 4:36 PM
Halloween is good actually because we now know 4 more neighbours and they now definitively know that our kids are cute as fuck
October 31, 2023 at 7:57 PM
today I wrote about ChatGPT getting tricked into saying an apple was an orange
Why ChatGPT says this is an orange
Hidden text is making ChatGPT look dishonest
open.substack.com
October 31, 2023 at 2:28 PM
Reposted by Kevin Donnellan
Wrote about AI and loneliness. It's lovely to have a platform where I can just share what I wrote and know followers will actually see that post ☺️
The lonely world of the AI 'companion' user
Plus LEGO Jesus
open.substack.com
October 19, 2023 at 11:54 AM
Wrote about AI and loneliness. It's lovely to have a platform where I can just share what I wrote and know followers will actually see that post ☺️
The lonely world of the AI 'companion' user
Plus LEGO Jesus
open.substack.com
October 19, 2023 at 11:54 AM