Monthly Archives: September 2022

On creative destruction, radical disruption, and other extreme makeovers

Usually not the answer (image courtesy of clipart-library.com) During the past few weeks, I’ve been giving some thought to two radical ideas that are floating around out in our public discourse. One is coming from the far right: An organizing effort to hold a new Constitutional Convention, presumably to radically remake the U.S. Constitution. In…

The modern enterprise imaging and data value chain

During the past two decades, the health care sector has undergone a rapid and far-reaching digital transformation. But digitalization has generated a new challenge: information overload. According to one estimate, the volume of health care-related data being generated digitally doubles every 73 days. Much of it is stored in discrete silos—such as digital imaging and…

Getty Images bans AI-generated content over fears of legal challenges

Only human-drawn illustrations allowed. | Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Getty Images has banned the upload and sale of illustrations generated using AI art tools like DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion. It’s the latest and largest user-generated content platform to introduce such a ban, following similar decisions by sites including Newgrounds, PurplePort,…