Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s.
Source: Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software
Category: Digital Life
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Web Design Museum – Discover old websites, apps and software
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The Web We’ve (Never) Lost
Posted on July 28, 2024 by Jan Vlnas
Based on my talk for PragueJS meetup from February 2024
Source: The Web We’ve (Never) Lost
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Encounter: Benedict Evans – AI eats the world
Every year, I produce a big presentation exploring macro and strategic trends in the tech industry. For 2024, ‘AI, and everything else’.
Source: Presentations — Benedict Evans
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Jigsaw (The Current)
A safer internet means a safer world
Jigsaw is a unit within Google that explores threats to open societies, and builds technology that inspires scalable solutions.
“Upholding technology as a force for good”
The Current is a publication from Jigsaw that examines the role of technology and individuals in countering some of the most challenging threats to open societies.
Source: Jigsaw
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Encounter: The Backbone
This page provides a single entry point to all the posts in the story of how the world got online. The Backbone: Introduction One System, Universal Service? The Unraveling, Part 1 Discovering Inter…
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Encounter: 365 RFCs
Super interesting details on internet (standards) beginnings.
Commenting on one RFC a day in honor of the 50th anniversary of the first RFC.
Source: 365 RFCs — Write.as
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Encounter: How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
Turns out, a lot of it, actually.
Source: How Much of the Internet Is Fake?
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The article is from 2018, and I have to confess I didn’t look for more recent statistics, but I can imagine it only got worse. I did a quick of search on this topic, and a lot of articles date from 2018, so it seems the attention just turned to other topics, but I don’t think the actual problem went away.
Also relevant
The Fake Web: How Nonhuman, Fraudulent And Invalid Traffic Is Taking Over The Internet (18 Feb 2022)
The ‘Dead-Internet Theory’ Is Wrong but Feels True – The Atlantic (31 Aug 2021)
All the levels of redirection (Rant 14 Sep 2012)
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Encounter (again): This Person Does Not Exist
This person does not exist With the flood of AI generated imagery, can we still distinguish what is real and what is “fake”? Is it really fake if it was generated by an algorithm?
This website shows a new face every time it is loaded, and that person does not actually exist. It’s using StyleGAN2 and was created in 2019, but I ran into this again and was fascinated (again).
With each load, a new face is shown, and that person does not actually exist. This was created in 2019, but I ran into this again and was fascinated (again).
It is actually still a very good algorithm, very few flaws, at least to my untrained eye (see how can you tell below).
https://thispersondoesnotexist.com/
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Have I Been Trained
Reverse identification of images used to train models.
Search 5.8 billion images used to train popular AI art models
Which face is real
http://www.whichfaceisreal.com/
Our aim is to make you aware of the ease with which digital identities can be faked, and to help you spot these fakes at a single glance.
How can you tell
https://www.whichfaceisreal.com/learn.html
TLDR; Potential tell offs
- Water-splotches
- Background problems
- Eyeglasses
- Asymmetries
- Hair
- Fluorescent bleed
- Teeth
Stable Attribution
https://www.stableattribution.com/
Stable Attribution’s algorithm decodes an image generated by an A.I. model into the most similar examples from the data that the model was trained with.
