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🔗︎ News Articles
News articles, reverse chronological. I add new links regularly. You can now filter it by category.
Hullo! I'm (probably not named) Cathy Leigh! This site is my running notebook about 21st century artificial intelligence. I have messy, complicated feelings about all this new technology, as I'm sure everyone does.
Studying this topic is my hobby now. I might as well look into it. I'm trapped here in the late 2020s. I guess you are, too, then?
On this site, I share what I learn as I go. I'm also sharing chatlogs and resources I've collected. Perhaps soon I'll share vlogs?
Recent Site Updates
The latest additions and changes. You can see everything past on the updates page, or subscribe via RSS. The little emojis are topical indicators.
📌 All About This Site
Find the sitemap here. You'll also run across interesting stuff used in the creation of this site, and links to things I experimented with. Review ways to contact me if necessary!
✒︎ Tower of the Wizard
The assumption is that AI really is as bad (and can be destroyed like) as (say) Sauron or the Empire in Star Wars. We're all leaning on fiction at a particularly volatile time in history.
🛠︎ Agentic traffic surpasses human traffic on the internet.
According to Cloudflare's radar, traffic from artificial intelligence has now surpassed human traffic on the internet. Crawlers and other non-agentic bots have been a significant part of internet traffic for a decade. The rise of agentic traffic, though, has been exponential in just a few short years. Cloudflare's CEO, Matthew Prince, hadn't expected this to happen until 2027. It was never supposed to happen at all.
🔗︎ News Articles
News articles, reverse chronological. I add new links regularly. You can now filter it by category.
🔗︎ Log of Pics
A running log of small images, memes, and clippings, both generated by me and those gathered from elsewhere online for context.
✒︎ Chatbots and Intimacy
What effect do chatbots have on our sense of intimacy as a culture, and how is this changing? What's the future going to be like?
ðŸŽï¸Ž Chatbots and Chatlogs
My amateur character cards for SillyTavern and similar programs, paired with the chatlogs each one produced. Read about them, or install them as prompts yourself.
Some Notes
This site is not appropriate for minors. Anyways, I work with characters when I use these programs because I find it engaging and fun. I don't see self-awareness in any of these chatbots or models. If you believe otherwise, I won't humor you about it. Also, hostile messages about my use of generative AI won't have the intended consequences. If you find it distasteful, I have zero hard feelings, but please browse elsewhere.