The Playing Field Was Level for About a Year
AI leveled the playing field for about a year. Now the field is tilting again, and the tilt is priced by the month. Here is the research on who wins.
Original Intelligence
AI learned everything it knows from us. A look at original intelligence, free will, and why the leading AI models are called frontier models, the place the law has not reached yet.
The Checkerboard Problem: Why ChatGPT’s “Transparent” PNGs Usually Aren’t — and How We Did It to Ourselves
AI image generators can’t reliably give you a transparent background — they paint the checkerboard pattern in as solid pixels instead. Here’s why: image models generate RGB pixels with no alpha channel, and they learned the checkerboard as the visual symbol for transparency from a training-data web saturated with it. Plus what actually works to get true transparency.