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How AI's post-training process suppresses the creativity and whimsicality seen in earlier models like GPT-2, leading to bad writing from many top AI models (Jasmine Sun/The Atlantic)
https://www.

The Human Skill That Eludes AI
Why can’t language models write well?

RE: #writing #CreativePrompts

Seems like the funeral industry in Korea has failed to meet its cybersecurity requirements. Gotta wonder if this is true everywhere. (not that most organizations aren't bad at cyber -- they are -- but haven't read much about the funeral industry).
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications

Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications
Exclusive: Funeral Industry Faces Security Gaps as Top Firms Lack Key Certifications Despite managing sensitive data of millions, funeral companies remain exempt from information security regulations, raising concerns over data protection and ransomware risks

University comms office in fine dystopian form this morning:
"Large language models like ChatGPT-4 score higher in creativity than the average person but trail highly creative individuals by a significant margin, according to a new study...
These results suggest LLMs may be particularly helpful for less creative people."

Theres's Credible Evidence of Trump's Sex Crimes (Jay Kuo/The Status Kuo)
https://statuskuo.substack.com/p/theress-credible-evidence-of-trumps
http://www.memeorandum.com/260218/p112#a260218p112

Netflix execs refute a rumor that creatives making movies or shows are told to repeat plot points in dialogue often because viewers are distracted by phones (Michael Schneider/Variety)
https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/netflix-execs-not-asking-re…

Netflix Execs Say They're Not Really Asking Creatives to Repeat Plots
At a press conference on Wednesday, Netflix execs stressed that they're not really asking creatives to repeat TV and film plots.

With a $1.7B global box office, Disney's Zootopia 2 becomes the highest grossing animated film from a Hollywood studio, behind the Chinese hit Ne Zha 2 (Jeremy Fuster/The Wrap)
https://www.thewrap.com/creative-content/movies/zootopia-2-animation-bo…

'Zootopia 2' Is Now Hollywood's Highest Grossing Animated Film Ever With $1.7 Billion
The Disney sequel has passed Pixar's "Inside Out 2" with $1.7 billion grossed worldwide

Chartbeat: over two years, search traffic fell by 60% for small publishers with 1K-10K daily page views, 47% for medium-sized publishers, and 22% for large ones (Sara Fischer/Axios)
https://www.axios.com/2026/03/17/chartbeat-search-traffic-ai-chatbots

Exclusive: Small publishers hit hardest by search traffic declines
Larger publishers with better brand recognition and stronger direct-to-consumer products are more insulated from declines in traditional search traffic.

OpenAI hires Instagram's VP of global partnerships, Charles Porch, as its first VP of global creative partnerships, seeking to win over a skeptical Hollywood (Julia Black/Vanity Fair)
https://www.vanityfair.com/news/story/openai-hires-charles-porch-instagram

Exclusive: OpenAI Has Poached Instagram’s Celebrity Whisperer
Charles Porch’s newly created role as OpenAI’s VP of global creative partnerships signals the AI giant’s new focus on the entertainment industry

Dreamer, founded by former Stripe CTO David Singleton, Hugo Barra, and others, launches in beta to let technical and non-technical users build agentic AI apps (David Singleton/flurries of latent creativity)
https://blog.singleton.io/posts/2026-02-17-introducing-dreamer/