Dan Tynan

California, Earth

Freelance Journalist, Writer and Editor at Freelance

Owner at The Tynan Files

Articles

Gab is building a Nazi-friendly chatbot. Because of course it is.

Jan 11, 2024 | tynanfiles.beehiiv.com | Dan Tynan

Führer and friend. Source: Midjourney. Gab, The Social Network For People Who Were Dropped on Their Heads as Infants™, is hard at work trying to create AI chatbots that are just as racist, sexist, antisemitic, transphobic, Trumpy, and batshit crazy as the network's 100,000 active members. More accurately, it is busy creating a couple dozen AI chatbots, based on various personas and historical figures, including everyone's favorite embodiment of pure evil, Adolf Hitler.
Why Your Gen AI Projects Are Stuck at the Starting Line

Jan 8, 2024 | freshworks.com | Dan Tynan

Organizations need to identify the right use cases, improve data quality, and be willing to experimentDan TynanThe Works ContributorJan 09, 20246 MINS READCompanies of every type and size are dabbling with generative AI (GAI), looking to tap its abilities to boost productivity, improve user experience, and discover valuable business insights. Nearly three-fourths of companies, according to Accenture, have made AI their top digital investment priority for 2024.
Why the Internet sucks (& what you can do about it)

Jan 2, 2024 | crankyolddan.substack.com | Dan Tynan

Clowns to the left of us, jokers to the right. Here we are, stuck on the Internet. Source: Midjourney. I used to be a fan of the Internet. I used to think it would help level the playing field between people with power/money and the rest of us.
The biggest story of the year was not Taylor Swift

Dec 29, 2023 | crankyolddan.substack.com | Dan Tynan

Twice a week I sit down at my keyboard and look for something weird/interesting in the world of tech and AI that I can have some fun with. In 2023, there was more than I could possibly write about. The emergence of generative AI is to me the biggest story of the year — even more than The Eras Tour or that utterly adorable romance between Tay Tay and Travis K. Here are my picks for the top five stories in tech over the last 12 months. 1.
Merry AI-mas to all, and to all a good night

Dec 22, 2023 | crankyolddan.substack.com | Dan Tynan

Santa and The Grinch, hitting the eggnog a little too hard. No, I cannot explain why Santa’s hands are green and why he appears to have four arms. Source: Midjourney. Merry/Happy to my faithful readers who have stuck it out with my snarky, dystopian ramblings for the past year. In the spirit of the holiday season, I asked ChatGPT to write a poem for Christmas using some of the more iconic characters from popular culture.
All the news that's fit for ... robots?

Dec 19, 2023 | crankyolddan.substack.com | Dan Tynan

I for one welcome our news robot overlords. Source: Midjourney. Lester Holt and Wolf Blitzer, watch your back. Erin Burnett and Mika Brzezinski, it's time to start plotting your next career move. The robots are coming for you. Early next year, a startup called Channel 1.ai will begin producing its own, entirely AI-generated newscasts — no on-camera humans required.
Grimes' AI toy will help raise your kids right

Dec 15, 2023 | crankyolddan.substack.com | Dan Tynan

Say hello to Grok, a plush toy rocket that can talk and won’t blow up on its launchpad. Source: Washington Post/Curio. Here’s yet more proof that we are living in the most absurd timeline imaginable. Singer-songwriter Grimes, aka Claire Boucher, aka the mother of just over 27 percent of Elon Musk’s children [1], wants to teach your kids about religion and other stuff using an AI-powered rocket-shaped plush toy named Grok.
Substackers Against Nazis

Dec 14, 2023 | crankyolddan.substack.com | Dan Tynan

Welcome to a special Thursday edition of Cranky Old Man etc etc. Regular readers will know that I am no fan of Nazis, people who aspire to be Nazis, or people who create platforms for Nazis to spread their vile “ideas” across the Internet. That’s one of the reasons I was able to quit my Twitter addiction. And now, it seems, I am publishing on a platform that is cozy with Nazis (FML). I am publishing this letter as part of a collective protest.
How Arctic Wolf Became Leader Of The Pack

Dec 13, 2023 | lsvp.com | Dan Tynan

By Dan TynanArctic Wolf is now a global leader in mitigating cyber threats for organizations of all sizes – from large enterprises to small businesses, one of a handful of companies driving the Managed Detection and Response (MDR) market. But when the company first launched in 2012, it was more of a lone wolf.
Hey Elon, go Grok yourself

Dec 12, 2023 | crankyolddan.substack.com | Dan Tynan

Elon Musk, whose mother clearly never hugged him, released his AI chatbot last week to a select group of Xitter subscribers. Grok is Musk's answer to the 'woke virus'-infected ChatGPT. It is supposed to "based," "maximum truth seeking," "spicy," "sarcastic," "humorous," "rebellious," and "vulgar," with access to "real-time information" taken directly from the timeline of current Twitter/X users. [1]I've got to hand it to Elon. Grok is truly, unexpectedly hilarious. But not in the way Musk intended.