Archive - The Techtualist

From Lil Miquela to Caryn AI: The glittering financial gains of virtual personas

And the advent of the AI girlfriend industry.

Aug 22, 2023 •

Dale J Rappaneau

January 2023

Art-generating AI as an accessibility tool for disabled artists

(And let's nerd out on a rad-as-hell board game.)

Jan 25, 2023 •

Dale J Rappaneau

I wrote a script for GPT-3 to take a multistate bar exam — and it both passed and failed in minutes

The algorithm easily passed a 50-question MBE, but it failed a full NCBE one.

Jan 9, 2023 •

Dale J Rappaneau

Let’s talk about those year-in-review data visualizations

They’re a reminder of just how much commercial surveillance these services run on us.

Jan 4, 2023 •

Dale J Rappaneau

November 2022

The State Bar of California exam results leak for July ‘22

There is something poetic about a privacy professional learning their bar results from a data leak. At 6 PM PST on Nov. 10, 2022, the State Bar of…

Nov 13, 2022 •

Dale J Rappaneau

October 2022

Why should I care about how my data is used?

The question often arrives with a sideways slant of skepticism: Why should I care how my data is used? An especially animated speaker may accompany it…

Oct 14, 2022 •

Dale J Rappaneau

March 2022

Is it the metaverse or a metaverse?

On Jan. 18, 2022, Brian X. Chen of The New York Times asked the question, “What’s All the Hype About the Metaverse?” In the article, Chen used the term…

Mar 16, 2022 •

Dale J Rappaneau

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