Flashes from this week
#Amsterdam

This 1915 autochrome of “the hands of a scholar” from Indochina, which I found thanks to @publicdomainrev.bsky.social, made me think of #Nosferatu

Full article: publicdomainreview.org/essay/albert...

#Albert-Kahn

Amsterdam Documentary Festival, IDFA, premiered yesterday with this rather unusual AI-generated docufiction, About a Hero. I can’t say I enjoyed the film, but it is a truthful exploration of AI generative delusionism with a quality artistic bias. For AI geeks, recommended.

I was trying to explain Perplexity.ai that KIPPA was a Dutch photo agency. But even though I show a Wikipedia link to prove it, it keeps telling me I am wrong.

Luckily I was searching about something I sort of knew!

I asked Perplexity AI about the name of the philosopher who married Karl Marx's daughter. After fact-checking, the name I was looking for was Paul Lafargue, and fortunately not the name I got in response, which left me, to say the least, in perplexity.
#PerplexityAI #JennyLauraMarx #AIsearch

Trying to figure out how unsustainable is to switch from "good old" search engines to LLMs to do a simple web search. #Perplexity is ambiguous about it. What is a fact is, however, that the difference in energy consumption is considerably higher.