Category: Digital Content
-
Learning about video and generative AI (1)
A couple of weeks ago, we saw and heard about two interesting breakthroughs in the world of AI generated content: Sora and V-JEPA. In this post I want to touch on SORA and its promise (and potential dangers) for the field of content production. Sora OpenAI has now introduced Sora, an AI model that generates…
-
How Substack recommends
Last year Substack introduced a new recommendation feature which I want to highlight here. In case you’re unfamiliar with Substack, it’s a platform that lets writers and podcasters publish directly to their audience and get paid through subscriptions. The principle behind Substack’s recommendation feature is as simple as it’s powerful: a writer can select several…
-
Slay (Product Review)
My summary of Slay before using it – Slay is an app aimed at teenagers, aiming to bring some positivity to its users. How does Slay present itself in the first minute? – “Let the love in” is what it says when I search online for Slay. If I then go into the app store,…
-
Human + Machine: Spotify’s ‘Algotorial Playlists’
When I think about personalised content, I think of Netflix and Spotify providing recommendations during the onboarding process based on a user’s tastes and preferences. These recommendations will then be refined and augmented as a user consumes more content. This level of personalisation is fully algorithm based, which makes it highly scalable but also prone…