We’ve met a last time this year to record an episode of Saunacast. We spoke about all kind of things, foremost the recent GEMA ruling on song lyrics in AI training data, some research on creativity with and without AI in teams that MInkorrekt covered already recently. Among other topics, Sven spoke about the Podcast „Kritisches Denken“ he listens to recently, and AnyType, that hosts all our shownotes for the time being.
With all recent developments in AI, there is more and more slop on the internet. When we were out for Glühwein last week we were joking that we can totally do better automating our efforts with AI. And then the day after I found this guy literally giving a tutorial how to generate Youtube Shorts with Sora and automating the process with n8n to hit all the trending topics.
It’s been the last episode of the year and we want to wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year. We’ll return next year, with real human content. More or less.
Sven discovered the world of serious OCR with OCR Munich – Spartan Races fun only
partially olympic, replaced horse racing
link the wikipedia page
SaunaCup in Erding was Oct 18 – Alan and Sven went, plus we met many well-knows | Fun event, long waiting lines, but worth it
Andreas has no events and is still busy all the time – gym time
Just Product and Product Masterclass
ARRI CInema
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Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) announced by Google
The Agent Payments Protocol (AP2) is a new open standard developed by Google and over 60 partners to enable AI agents to securely initiate and complete transactions on behalf of users. It aims to provide a framework for authorization, authenticity, and accountability in digital payments, allowing for seamless interactions between AI agents and merchants. Extension to MCP and A2A
new relevant book about „thinking“ with takes AI into account
„don’t stop thinking“
Will have a blog post out at svenhaiges.de next week
The AI will always tell you how great you are. Critical thinking is important.
Andreas: Sora2 and Your Face
Adam Conover about Sora and the AI Bubble, TechSauna Discord’s AI Channel by Mate – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55Z4cg5Fyu4 Sora proves the AI Bubble will burst so hard
More and more news about totally inflated expectations. Let’s see what happens.
Sam altman steals nvidia GPUs
What could possibly go wrong.
Don’t give your face to OpenAI
Copyrighted material, fake news, racist content
5$ / 10s, with 4 out of 5 videos in the making are unusable.
Burning the planet with datacenters.
Andreas: OpenAI does Adult content
OpenAI did not respond to the BBC’s requests for comment. „Will treat adult users as adults“
Could be related to the fact that OnlyFans is tge most ‚revenue efficient‘ company in the world (revenue per employee)
llms.txt markdown is human and LLM readable, but is also in a precise format allowing fixed processing methods (i.e. classical programming techniques such as parsers and regex).
