Could text be the new video?

Tech for Good Live

Welcome back to the Tech for Good Live podcast! This is our third episode of 2023 and we’re a wee bit excited. If you’re new here, we get together about tech for good, tech for bad and everything in between!

In this episode we are talking about the future of social media and AI generated art.

Fay Schofield is your host and she is joined by Greg Ashton and Producer Paul.

Our guest to discuss this week's topics is Westlake. Storyteller, editor, cultural producer and network weaver with twenty years communications experience. Founder of the creative collective - Flannel & Blade. Born in Blighty, living in NYC.

This weeks stories:

Co-founders of Instagram think they've found the future of social media. And it's not video. The issues with Twitter seem to have energised new innovation in social media, could this be the start of a new era?

Instagram’s co-founders are back with Artifact, a kind of TikTok for text - The Verge

Picking up on a topic we touched on a few weeks ago, AI generated "art". There's now a number of lawsuits including in the US and UK:

First AI Art Generator Lawsuits Threaten Future of Emerging Tech - Bloomberg Law

Florida high school athletes won't have to report their periods after emergency vote - NPR

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