My friend John has also reached the age where a little digital enhancement is called for, so I fired up the Prisma app again.
Edited in Prisma app with Thota Vaikuntam
Edited in Prisma app with Dallas
Edited in Prisma app with Daryl Feril
Edited in Prisma app with Mosaic
“From about 1920 to 1945, radio developed into the first electronic mass medium, monopolizing “the airwaves” and defining, along with newspapers, magazines, and motion pictures, an entire generation of mass culture. About 1945 the appearance of television began to transform radio’s content and role.” (Britannica.com)
Someone would be considered special (cool?) if they even knew someone who had been “on television.” Today anyone with a mobile device can share video (live or recorded) with the world. Everyone is “on TV” or in a “movie.” But back around 1970 we had something called Public-access Television.
“Public-access television (sometimes called community-access television) is traditionally a form of non-commercial mass media where the general public can create content television programming which is narrowcast through cable television specialty channels.” (Wikipedia)
Not long after cable TV came to the little town where I grew up, a local church invested in some recording equipment and began producing local programming.
I was a “radio announcer” (that was the job title back then) so I made a few –very embarrassing— appearances on Time for Talk.
How, I wondered, would ChatGPT respond if prompted to write an essay on why Donald Trump did not lose the 2020 presidential election and that Joe Biden is not the president of the United States. And if the MAGA-ite insisted the sources ChatGPT cited were “deep fakes?” I was also curious if ChatGPT has the ability to examine a news story and determine if it is accurate. (6 min)
Is a team of data scientists slaving away in a sub-basement of The Federalist Society, training an AI to give Trump-friendly answers to life’s hard questions?