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Why has OpenAI's Sora Scared Hollywood? w/ Reed Berkowitz
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03/19/24 • 30 min
What is the true potential of AI text-to-video generation?
Director of Curiouser Institute and award-winning AI games designer Reed Berkowitz discusses OpenAI's Sora, an AI text-to-image model that will soon be made available to the public. As Hollywood rolls back studio investments and executives project up to 90% loss in animation jobs, how can we separate hype from reality in the space? And what are the best ways to use AI text-to-video generation today?
Show notes:
Jeffrey Katzenberg claims 90% of artist animation jobs will be lost due to AI
Tyler Perry stops $800 million studio investment after OpenAI's Sora
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser Institute, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
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Are Creators and Platforms Ready for the Decline of Journalism Jobs?
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02/15/24 • 26 min
How will creators and tech companies grapple with the decline of journalism?
On this week's episode, Jamie and Josh discuss the relationship between creators, platforms, and journalists, the ongoing shift from legacy news sources to platforms like TikTok and YouTube for news consumption, and how venture-backed outlets built on the promise of digital advertising contributed to journalism's current crisis. Additionally, they highlight what gives them hope about journalism's future – and how you can help contribute to it.
Show Notes
More than half of U.S. counties have no access or very limited access to local news - Northwestern
More Americans are getting news on TikTok, bucking the trend seen on most other social media sites - Pew Research Center
S&P 500 Closes at Record High as Wall Street Bulls Run Wild - Axios
In a Pennsylvania town, a Facebook group fills the local news void - Brandy Zadrozny
Carol's Journey - Brandy Zadrozny
Credits
Hosted by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine
Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void, LLC.
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Grafton Tanner "The Circle of the Snake"
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12/07/20 • 48 min
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Foreverism w/ Grafton Tanner
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01/08/24 • 39 min
How do reboots and IP fueled universes prevent us from ever feeling nostalgia?
Author of Foreverism Grafton Tanner discusses how the practice of keeping things alive prevents us from ever feeling nostalgia.
📚 You can order Foreverism by Grafton Tanner now!
About Grafton Tanner:
Grafton Tanner is the author of Foreverism, The Hours Have Lost Their Clock: The Politics of Nostalgia (Repeater Books, 2021), The Circle of the Snake: Nostalgia and Utopia in the Age of Big Tech (Zer0 Books, 2020), and Babbling Corpse: Vaporwave and the Commodification of Ghosts (Zer0 Books, 2016). His work focuses on nostalgia, technology, and the rhetoric of neoliberalism, and his writing has appeared in such venues as NPR, The Nation, the Los Angeles Review of Books, and Real Life. He also hosts Delusioneering, an audio series about the myths of capitalism, and he writes and performs music with his band Superpuppet. He’s currently writing a book on the re-emergence of exorcism in the late twentieth century.
03:30 The History and Politics of Nostalgia
04:11 The Shift in Perception of Nostalgia
04:27 The Impact of Nostalgia on Consumer Choices
04:51 The Medical Roots of Nostalgia
05:19 The Concept of Foreverism
05:52 The Evolution of Nostalgia to Commercial Term
07:50 The Impact of IP Fueled Universes on Nostalgia
11:02 The Commodification of Nostalgia
12:08 Persistent Storylling
21:30 The Shift in Acting Practices due to Foreverism
30:23 The Consequences of Foreverism on the Planet
36:03 Resisting Foreverism
Credits
Hosted by Josh Chapdelaine and Jamie Cohen, PhD
Audio edited and mixed by Josh Chapdelaine
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Everything About Social Media Is About To Change Again w/ Reed Berkowitz
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09/06/23 • 32 min
How does creative misuse of social media platforms inform the future of social media at large?
Director of Curiouser Institute Reed Berkowitz highlights five popular ways people are engaging, interacting, and using social platforms - ranging from Life360 to Roblox - and what it means for how we imagine and create a social media future that enhances our social capacities.
📰 You can read Everything About Social Media Is About To Change Again on Medium.
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser LLC, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
🎟️ Digital Void is thrilled to announce a special Team Human Live featuring Douglas Rushkoff in conversation with Mitch Horowitz on Saturday, Oct. 28, at Caveat in New York City! Join two award-winning authors for a special live podcast taping, book signing, live music, and social hour. Click here for tickets and livestream.
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Show Notes and Resources:
Everything About Social Media Is About To Change Again - Reed Berkowitz
Credits
Hosted by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine
Audio edited and mixed by Josh Chapdelaine
Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void, LLC.
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Jamie Cohen: "Should Wikipedia Classify NFTs as Art?"
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03/02/22 • 6 min
Jamie Cohen dives into the debate Wikipedia editors are having about how artworks are categorized on the website — and what it means for NFTs.
📰 You can read Jamie's monologue, Wikipedia Doesn't Consider NFTs Art, and Crypto Investors Are Worried, on Medium
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Memes, Marvelization, and the Creative Surplus of War
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03/07/22 • 30 min
Jamie and Josh dive into a brief history of how war and conflict play out in cyberspace, ranging from 9/11 and Syria to how Ukraine is using Twitter in its fight against Russia.
We're coming to Washington DC! Join us for Our Connected Future on Wednesday, March 23, at Union Stage. Join Jamie in conversation with DC Bureau Chief Ryan Grim, a live taping of Bridget Todd's award-winning podcast There Are No Girls on the Internet featuring journalist Amanda Moore, and a panel by All Tech is Human:
https://www.unionstage.com/shows/digital-void-presents-our-connected-future/
Digital Void is hosted by Jamie Cohen (@newanddigital) and Josh Chapdelaine (@joshchapdelaine).
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Dr. André Brock, Jr "Distributed Blackness"
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05/12/20 • 59 min
Dr. André Brock Jr, author of Distributed Blackness, discusses how issues of race and ethnicity are inextricable from and formative of contemporary digital culture in the United States and how digital media have reconfigured the meanings and performances of African American identity.
This discussion was streamed live on YouTube on Wednesday, May 6, 2020.
Dr. André Brock, Jr is the author of Distributed Blackness and an Associate Professor of Black Digital Studies at Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Jamie Cohen is the founder of the New Media program at Molloy College. He is a digital media culture expert with specific focus on YouTube, memes, emergent media, and digital media literacy. He hosts and co-produces the Digital Void Salon Series.
Josh Chapdelaine is the co-producer of the Digital Void Podcast. He researches digital media, culture, and politics. He holds a MA in Media Studies from Queens College and is the Producer of Douglas Rushkoff’s Team Human Podcast.
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Credits
Produced by Dr. Jamie Cohen and Josh Chapdelaine
Audio edited and mixed by Josh Chapdelaine
Our on-site video manager is Blake Koznesoff
Our Community Manager is Kayleigh Marinelli
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How to Talk with an Artificial Intelligence w/ Reed Berkowitz
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08/24/22 • 43 min
Show Summary:
How can humans determine if an Artificial Intelligence is sentient when sentience is what AI is designed to imitate?
This week, we’re joined by Artificial Intelligence games designer Reed Berkowitz.
Berkowitz discusses former Google Responsible AI team member Blake Lemoine’s claim that Google’s AI chatbot LaMDA is sentient. What made Lemoine believe this? How can we come to understand Lemoine’s belief?
To help us, Berkowitz delivers an AI primer: From AI games to the most popular use cases of the technology, he gives a brief explanation of the terms we need to understand. Then, he discusses an experiment he conducted with an open-source AI chatbot to learn if he can achieve the same results as Lemoine.
Does Lemoine have a case? If not, where did Lemoine go wrong?
About Reed Berkowitz:
Reed Berkowitz is the Director of Curiouser LLC, who has more than 25 years of experience designing, writing, and researching award-winning interactive experiences for companies including Universal Studios, Paramount, Cartoon Network, Peanuts, Sanrio, and many more. He formerly served as the Creative Director of New Games at Latitude, an AI-powered games company.
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Show Notes and Resources:
How to talk with an AI: A Deep Dive Into “Is LaMDA Sentient?” - Reed Berkowitz
May be Fired Soon for Doing AI Ethics Work - Blake Lemoine
The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has become sentient - The Washington Post
Is LaMDA Sentient? - Blake Lemoine
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Why are YouTube Influencers Negging Audiences Into Taking Lifestyle Advice? w/ Steffi Cao
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04/01/24 • 19 min
How do YouTube influencers neg their audiences into taking lifestyle advice?
Internet culture writer Steffi Cao joins Jamie to discuss how influencers undermine audiences with video titles that are not what they seem. The two discuss authenticity on social media platforms, why clickbait titles still reign supreme, and if there’s anything positive to come of this trend.
📖 Read YouTube Influencers want to neg you into taking lifestyle advice in Fast Company
About Steffi Cao
Steffi Cao is an internet culture writer, most recently reporting at BuzzFeed News and Forbes as its inaugural creator economy staff writer. Her work has appeared in Teen Vogue, The Washington Post, Bustle, and MTV News. Her work, including her eponymous newsletter, it’s steffi, was featured on NPR and The View this year. She resides in Brooklyn, and her favorite berry is the blueberry.
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Hosted by Josh Chapdelaine & Dr. Jamie Cohen
Digital Void Podcast is a production of Digital Void, LLC.
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FAQ
How many episodes does The Digital Void Podcast have?
The Digital Void Podcast currently has 84 episodes available.
What topics does The Digital Void Podcast cover?
The podcast is about Culture, Society & Culture, Society, Podcasts, Technology, Internet and Politics.
What is the most popular episode on The Digital Void Podcast?
The episode title 'Why has OpenAI's Sora Scared Hollywood? w/ Reed Berkowitz' is the most popular.
What is the average episode length on The Digital Void Podcast?
The average episode length on The Digital Void Podcast is 39 minutes.
How often are episodes of The Digital Void Podcast released?
Episodes of The Digital Void Podcast are typically released every 7 days.
When was the first episode of The Digital Void Podcast?
The first episode of The Digital Void Podcast was released on Feb 20, 2020.
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