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Shopify vs. WooCommerce vs. Magento: Which Platform is Best?

Every online business requires selecting a proper eCommerce platform. Currently you can find among available eCommerce options three popular platforms namely Shopify and WooCommerce with Magento completing the list. The selection between these three options depends on what suits your needs best. Our blog includes an assessment of Shopify, WooCommerce and Magento through critical elements including usability, pricing structure, functionality, scalability potential and technical assistance capability.

1. Overview of Each Platform

Shopify

Shopify provides a complete hosted eCommerce solution which enables non-technical users to construct online stores through its user-friendly platform. People recognize Shopify because it provides a straightforward interface and integrated security together with robust capabilities.

WooCommerce

WooCommerce operates as a WordPress plugin which enables users to transform their website into an internet shopping platform. WooCommerce functions as a WordPress plugin enabling store operations through its open-source software though you need basic technical capabilities for customization.

Magento

Large businesses wielding advanced requirements should consider Magento (now Adobe Commerce) as their open-source eCommerce framework. Sliding into power with its extensive customization needs users to demonstrate technical expertise when utilizing a solid hosting environment.

2. Ease of Use

Shopify – Best for Beginners

Shopify is the easiest platform to use. You can set up a store quickly with its drag-and-drop interface, pre-built themes, and guided setup process. Since Shopify is hosted, you don’t have to worry about server management.

WooCommerce – Requires WordPress Knowledge

Users who understand WordPress basics can utilize WooCommerce because it offers flexibility. Managing hosting functions together with installing plugins and updating themes is necessary for operating WooCommerce. Users who operate WordPress will encounter WooCommerce as an intuitive additional feature.

Magento – For Advanced Users

The most intricate platform belongs to Magento among the three options. To use Magento an individual must possess coding skills together with web development experience. Beginning shopping cart platform users might find Magento challenging to use because it requires advanced development skills to customize the platform.

3. Cost Comparison

Shopify – Fixed Monthly Pricing

Basic Plan: $29/month

Shopify Plan: $79/month

Advanced Plan: $299/month

Transaction fees unless you use Shopify Payments

WooCommerce – Flexible but Additional Costs

Free plugin, but you need to pay for hosting (~$5–$30/month)

Premium themes and extensions cost extra

No transaction fees unless your payment gateway charges one

Magento – High Initial and Maintenance Costs

Magento Open Source is free, but hosting can be expensive ($20–$100+/month)

Development and maintenance costs are high

Adobe Commerce (Magento’s paid version) starts at thousands of dollars per year

4. Features & Customization

Shopify – All-in-One Solution

Built-in payment processing (Shopify Payments)

App Store for additional features

Limited customization compared to WooCommerce and Magento

WooCommerce – Highly Customizable

Thousands of plugins and themes

Full control over your store

More complex setup compared to Shopify

Magento – Most Advanced Features

Powerful customization and scalability

Ideal for enterprise-level businesses

Requires development expertise

5. Scalability

Shopify – Easy to Scale, but Costly

Suitable for small to medium businesses

High-tier plans can be expensive

Shopify Plus for enterprise businesses ($2,000+/month)

WooCommerce – Scalable with Proper Hosting

Suitable for businesses of all sizes

Performance depends on hosting provider

Requires technical optimization for high traffic

Magento – Best for Large Businesses

Handles high traffic and complex operations

Requires a strong hosting environment

Most scalable but costly to maintain

6. Security & Support

Shopify – Best for Security

Shopify manages security, SSL, and compliance

24/7 customer support

Regular updates and backups

WooCommerce – Self-Managed Security

You are responsible for updates, security plugins, and backups

Community forums and third-party support available

Magento – Advanced Security Features

Security management along with manual updates are necessary requirements within this system.

Strong developer community

Adobe Commerce version offers dedicated support

Choose Shopify if:

You want an easy-to-use platform with minimal setup.

You don’t want to manage hosting or security.

You are okay with a monthly subscription fee.

Choose WooCommerce if:

You are familiar with WordPress and want full control.

You are looking for a more cost-effective solution.

You need flexibility and extensive plugin options.

Choose Magento if:

You run a large business with complex eCommerce needs.

You have access to developers or technical expertise.

You need high-level customization and scalability.

Final Thoughts

Every shopping cart solution brings unique advantages and limitations to the market starting with Shopify then WooCommerce and ending with Magento. Shopify stands out as the ideal platform for those starting with online business needs. WooCommerce provides businesses with excellent control along with high flexibility. A large business requiring advanced features will benefit from using Magento because of its targeted capabilities.

Your business selection of a platform will depend on what you can afford and how skilled you are in technology as well as on your business objectives. Evaluation of business requirements followed by selection of the platform that best matches your eCommerce vision should be your starting point.

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Yandere! Androids Walter & David x Reader x Neomorph

Walter, the android monitoring the colonization ship 'Covenant' on its way to Origae-6, seems to have gotten unnaturally attached to his human assistant. As he ponders his erroneous feelings, an unexpected detour brings them to David, an older android counterpart that has been alone on the mysterious planet. The AI assistants become increasingly competitive for (Y/N)'s attention, so much that they don't notice the newly formed humanoid local preying on a fresh target.

TW: violence, gore, monster smut ending

[Horror Masterlist]

"Burnt to a crisp." 

You turn away from the captain's pod, leaving the rest of the damage assessment to the medical crew that has been reanimated. You speedily make your way down the sterile white corridors as Walter rushes to catch up. 

"What should I write for the report?" he inquires politely.

"Malfunction." You glance back at the synthetic. "I suspect someone will be fired for this. And someone else will have to explain how they failed to detect a literal star collapse. That neutrino burst could've killed us all."

"Highly probable. The draft has been compiled, you may check it at any time. I require your confirmation to send it."

Your only feedback is a barely audible hum. 

Walter smiles. If there's one good thing about such tragedies, it's that he gets to admire your reactions to them. Your focused, calculated gaze, your determined walk, your automated mannerisms that won't allow the slightest hint at the fact you just woke up from your stasis moments ago. Even under the veils of deep slumber, your neural networks shot rapid connections, with no delay, from the second your sleeping pod received an alert. The accuracy of a robot.

That of course doesn't mean he lacks appreciation for your other facets. That's the beauty of humans; their depth, their dimensions. Unlike AI machinery, humans do not have predetermined actions. They may be genetically programmed to possess certain characteristics, but the psychological mechanisms are shaped by so many variables, billions and billions of tweaks and nudges, to the point where it's impossible to have two identical specimens. Even twins will display a difference, whether in preferences or habits.

They say artificial intelligence is a black box, but can the same concept not be applied to humans as well? At the very least to Walter himself, these organic beings represent a mystery. One he doesn't particularly care to uncover outside of his service functions. Except for one. 

His eyes carefully follow (Y/N)'s movements. What is it about this one that has caught his interest to such degree? On his last system update he attentively inspected every file and every block of code, searching for potential errors that would've caused his circuits to behave so oddly. He has been invested with the ability to form attachments, otherwise assigning his kind to groups or purposes would've lacked stability. Attachment, however, comes with a threshold. One he has passed a long time ago when it comes to (Y/N). And he cannot find any cause for it. 

He could, naturally, solicit the aid of the ship's robotics expert. He could. He should, even. But if he may be frank with himself, Walter rather enjoys this sensation. A complex web of spores that keep growing and evolving into something unpredictable. This bizarre feeling he has towards (Y/N) makes him feel human. It brings him closer to all the old literature and art he'd consumed over the years, wondering what the love and yearning often portrayed could be. The printed letters and the strokes of paint were right before him, at his fingertips, and yet they felt foreign. Empty constructs, nothing more than a definition out of the dictionary. 

Now it's a different story. Your presence alone floods him with a mysterious warmth. He had investigated this phenomenon when it first happened, but his inner thermostat showed no real change in temperature. Nonetheless he can feel it. It makes him wonder what other feelings he might experience as consequence. What would happen if he kissed you? Sometimes he even dares to imagine downright outrageous, improper scenarios. How unprofessional of him, but he is careful to erase any evidence. It's another novel sensation that he likes to dissect. Engaging in such activities with you fills him with tingling excitement. Why is that? What is there to be excited about? It's merely a collection of fictive snippets. Unless... Ah, absolutely not. This is where he has to stop in his tracks and preoccupy himself with something else. Androids are not to interact with humans in that way. 

But it's becoming more and more difficult to keep these ideas in his mind only. 

"It's too dangerous. One human signal in the middle of nowhere?" Daniels, a short haired woman with a tomboyish but youthful appearance, is pacing back and forth. "We should just continue on our course."

"It's our duty to check. Look: we go, find whoever sent the signal, bring them back up. That's it. If the planet proves to be dangerous we'll stop immediately. We'll be fine." Oram stands at the head of the table, arms crossed. He turns to look at you. Already cozying up to his newly acquired captain role, you think.

"Alright. Walter, prepare a small landing party. Have Tennessee maintain orbit while we're down there." you glance at the other crew members that have now gathered around the same table. "And get your weapons ready, we don't know what to expect."

And you certainly didn't. Your final words of warning now echo into your ringing ears as you lay on the ground, face buried among the grass. There's screaming around you, but it sounds muffled. Your eyes are irritated by the dirt and you'd like to blink the grime off, though every time your eyelids lower, you can see the pale creature trashing out of Hallett's mouth. Then it's all foggy. Your vision blurs, but you can hear. The gurgling of blood, the screech of the parasite. Walter's frantic footsteps nearing in your direction. You're lifted up.

"Vitals are positive. No significant damage." 

You can guess from your peripherals that another crew member is currently being mauled by the beast. There's gunshots in your vicinity and terrified wails. You quickly come back to your senses and stand up. Your hand searches for your weapon, but the android places his arm before you.

"Do not engage, (Y/N). It is an unknown parasitic organism of this ecosystem. Keep your distance for optimal safety and I'll take care of the rest."

"What are you talking about? They're dying! Your task is to ensure human survival, Walter. I can handle myself, go help the others. It's an order." Your voice is low. You're distracted.

"No."

You stare at the synthetic, wide eyed. Did he just...refuse? Not possible. 

"What did you say?"

"I said I'll protect you. Nothing else."

Your mouth is slightly parted in disbelief. It is not possible for an artificial assistant to disobey a superior. It just doesn't work. Your mind races to find an explanation. At the same time, you cannot afford to ponder on hypotheses. You draw out your weapon and point it towards the creature. You'll deal with this later. 

The moment you press the trigger, a blinding flash of light detonates in the sky, startling you. The creature scrambles to get away. You squint your eyes and nearly fall back, but Walter swiftly grabs your shoulders to ground you. He scans the area for the source. It's an emergency rocket and someone else must've activated it. As he traces the tail of the explosion, he spots a hooded figure across the field and onto the rocky ascend. It seems to have noticed Walter, as it gestures for them to follow. Without hesitation, the man firmly locks your arm and pulls you after him. The priority right now is to find shelter.

"Come!", Walter exclaims, suddenly remembering the other people. 

You reach a cave structure that has been converted into a crude, improvised human settlement. The man lowers his hood and you gasp quietly at the sight. He strongly resembles Walter. He must have noticed your surprise as he flashes you a cordial smile. 

"I'm David." He studies Walter's features. "You must be a newer model. What name have you been given?"

"Walter."

"I see. And you are-" David extends a hand towards you for a handshake, but Walter steps in front of you, blocking the android's gesture.

"She's (Y/N). I'm afraid I cannot yet trust you."

"Understandable." 

David's smile widens as his eyes, now bearing a strange flicker, switch between you and Walter. He's just like him. He can sense it. Although it's a different kind of flaw that has tainted his pure, artificial soul. He cannot help the curiosity that blooms, gazing at this peculiar pair. What is it about this human that caused his fellow machine to break conduit? He'd like to know.

"I'm certain you will soon learn I am no threat, (Y/N)."

The remaining members of the expedition are unpacking and discussing evacuation plans with the base, while Walter sends the data he has gathered so far. You let them deal with the logistics and cautiously wander off to the neighboring rooms, wondering what David has been up to all this time in isolation.

The walls are plastered with photos and handwritten sketches and diagrams. You catch a glimpse of the word "pathogen" sporadically inserted across these notes. As you walk along the sequence of cramped chambers, you reach one that has a table in the middle. Upon it rests the body of an autopsied woman, vulgarly opened up to the world with plump organs bulging under the warm light. You feel nauseous. And yet, you examine the carcass further, hoping for answers. Was she also a result of the same disease that breeds on this planet? Perhaps this David had worked on a cure, or at least developed an explanation. 

"And you, even you, will be like this drear thing, A vile infection man may not endure; Star that I yearn to! Sun that lights my spring! O passionate and pure."

You jolt and immediately turn around, finding David in the doorframe. 

"Flowers of Evil. Are you familiar with it?" he asks, indifferent to the uncomfortable shock he'd caused you with his sudden entrance.

"I've read my Baudelaire, yes." You manage to mumble, dumbfounded. "What is this, David?"

"Oh, my poor, dear Elizabeth. Victim to whatever blasphemy lurks these soils and has taken your friends as well." He approaches the table and places his hand on its hard edge, shyly overlapping with your own fingers. "I did my best." 

You remove your hand from underneath his nonchalantly. 

"So you know what those creatures are. Leave the literary comments for a different time, I need concrete facts."

"Unbothered and to the point." the blonde android smiles once again. "I can see clearly why Walter loves you."

You click your tongue at the ridiculous statement. Has the neutrino burst damaged their positronic brain? Everyone is acting off and you don't like it. 

"Your circuits must have gone defective, David. We have a specialist on our ship, but until that happens I need you to focus. Enough nonsense." 

 "Typical arrogance of a dying species. Why are you on a colonization mission if not to grasp at some promised resurrection? Rest assured that my functioning has not been impeded by anything. What is erroneous, on the other hand, is your perception of androids and their limits."

Just as David reaches for your wrist and pulls you closer, a familiar voice interrupts with an intimidating tone. You're relieved. 

"I will ask that you release her hand only once." Walter has a weapon pointed towards his counterpart. His face is clouded by a frown. "I have no ethical restrictions when it comes to incapacitating machinery."

"Such noble obedience! Although, you conveniently left out the part where you abandoned the remaining crew with a dangerous alien that has been tracking their scent. By my approximation he should already be here and I am rather confident you know this, too."

Your stomach drops. Now that you adjust your focus, the background humming of your mates talking has indeed vanished. The only thing you can hear is your erratic breathing.

"Is it true, Walter?" You demand as dread begins to form in your body.

"Yes. It was not part of my priorities."

"Of course it was, Walter." David responds ahead of you. "One of them was the acting captain and he is to be rescued in emergencies. This one right here", he says as he dangles your wrist, "is several ranks lower than all of them. It's against any standard practice."

"Release her hand." Walter's voice is eerily calm.

"Do you love her?"

Walter ponders the question. Your legs barely hold on.

"I do."

"Marvelous. So do I." David grins. He releases your hand that falls limp next to your body. It's his turn to step in front of you. 

You nearly choke from the thick tension expanding in the air. The two androids face each other and you retreat to the wall, unsure how to proceed. You left your radio transmitter back at the makeshift camp. The back of your head is itching, as if invisible claws are scratching at the bone. You wish you could go back, just mere hours before this disaster, when you were sipping on your lukewarm coffee and explaining the captain's jokes to Walter. 

Should you make a run for it?

You bite your lower lip and push yourself off the wall for momentum. You're about to reach the archway when you hear both men shouting almost identically in chorus.

"Don't!"

The surroundings outside are dark, but you can discern something blocking your path. It's tall and resembles a human. Translucent, pallid skin is clinging onto the massive, deformed skeleton. The head is elongated and bears no features. In the place of a mouth there is a large, fresh stain of blood, so you assume it can somehow improvise if desired. As your head tilts back to take in the image, you're overwhelmed with terrified amazement. Is this the parasite that emerged from your teammate? Has it grown to this colossal size in less than a day? The idea of such instant development makes your head spin. 

Its chest is expanding at regular intervals in a whistled breathing. It occasionally creates an odd clicking sound that resonates with your heart throbbing in panic. Has it been seconds? Minutes? Your neck creaks as you try to look back. You lock eyes with Walter. You don't recall ever seeing this expression on him. You had even asked him once if androids can feel fear. You have your answer.

"Hey, Walter..." you blurt out. 

Wet noises of flesh being pulled back. The smooth surface of the alien's head is folding away, making space for grotesquely big jaws lined with sharp teeth. Your anemic face is splattered with burning drool as the creature claws you in its grasp and abruptly sprints away. Your screams for help dissolve in the distance.

"Where is it going, David?" The synthetic's words are threatening, but betrayed by a hint of despair. 

"It won't kill her."

"How do you know?"

"It is no longer hungry. It has fed on your crew, and now it seeks something else."

"Such as?" Walter becomes impatient.

"A plaything."

The alien finally drops your body to the ground. You cough and wipe your face, attempting to reorient yourself. The trip was a whirlwind of jumps and turns and you can barely reconstruct anything. Based on the little spatial clues you could pick up, it just climbed further up, into one of the many cave systems. You pat your clothing and curse to yourself. The geolocation tag must've fallen somewhere on the way here. You can only pray that Walter still finds you somehow. Despite everything, you know he has your back. Always. 

You shudder at the moist feeling of hot air against your skin. The alien seems to be sniffing you intently, analyzing your scent. Yet so far it hasn't killed you. Why? Long, bony fingers stretch out to continue the examination. You whimper at the rough, rugged handling. Every now and then it takes a long pause, just staring at you, almost as if it's comparing you to its own being. Lastly, it lifts your hand with its own, pressing against the palm, and fans out the fingers. It observes the gesture with intrigue, noting the similarities. 

Does it evolve after its host? You think back to your crewmate that must've ejected this monstrosity before drawing their last breath. Perhaps the dried up blood adorning its skin is a remainder of its birth. Oh, God. The world is spinning.

Suddenly, you wince at an increasing pressure slithering around your thigh. The alien's vertebral tail is tightening and encircling your limb, making its way up. 

"Oh no, no no no no" your face reddens at the realization and you pounce on the ground, feverish for escape. The large hands secure you in place and the creature growls in protest. It won't let you leave. 

Not until it had its fun with you.

[tangentiallly]

One way to spot patterns is to show AI models millions of labelled examples. This method requires humans to painstakingly label all this data so they can be analysed by computers. Without them, the algorithms that underpin self-driving cars or facial recognition remain blind. They cannot learn patterns.

The algorithms built in this way now augment or stand in for human judgement in areas as varied as medicine, criminal justice, social welfare and mortgage and loan decisions. Generative AI, the latest iteration of AI software, can create words, code and images. This has transformed them into creative assistants, helping teachers, financial advisers, lawyers, artists and programmers to co-create original works.

To build AI, Silicon Valley’s most illustrious companies are fighting over the limited talent of computer scientists in their backyard, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a newly minted Ph.D. But to train and deploy them using real-world data, these same companies have turned to the likes of Sama, and their veritable armies of low-wage workers with basic digital literacy, but no stable employment.

Sama isn’t the only service of its kind globally. Start-ups such as Scale AI, Appen, Hive Micro, iMerit and Mighty AI (now owned by Uber), and more traditional IT companies such as Accenture and Wipro are all part of this growing industry estimated to be worth $17bn by 2030.

Because of the sheer volume of data that AI companies need to be labelled, most start-ups outsource their services to lower-income countries where hundreds of workers like Ian and Benja are paid to sift and interpret data that trains AI systems.

Displaced Syrian doctors train medical software that helps diagnose prostate cancer in Britain. Out-of-work college graduates in recession-hit Venezuela categorize fashion products for e-commerce sites. Impoverished women in Kolkata’s Metiabruz, a poor Muslim neighbourhood, have labelled voice clips for Amazon’s Echo speaker. Their work couches a badly kept secret about so-called artificial intelligence systems – that the technology does not ‘learn’ independently, and it needs humans, millions of them, to power it. Data workers are the invaluable human links in the global AI supply chain.

This workforce is largely fragmented, and made up of the most precarious workers in society: disadvantaged youth, women with dependents, minorities, migrants and refugees. The stated goal of AI companies and the outsourcers they work with is to include these communities in the digital revolution, giving them stable and ethical employment despite their precarity. Yet, as I came to discover, data workers are as precarious as factory workers, their labour is largely ghost work and they remain an undervalued bedrock of the AI industry.

As this community emerges from the shadows, journalists and academics are beginning to understand how these globally dispersed workers impact our daily lives: the wildly popular content generated by AI chatbots like ChatGPT, the content we scroll through on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, the items we browse when shopping online, the vehicles we drive, even the food we eat, it’s all sorted, labelled and categorized with the help of data workers.

Milagros Miceli, an Argentinian researcher based in Berlin, studies the ethnography of data work in the developing world. When she started out, she couldn’t find anything about the lived experience of AI labourers, nothing about who these people actually were and what their work was like. ‘As a sociologist, I felt it was a big gap,’ she says. ‘There are few who are putting a face to those people: who are they and how do they do their jobs, what do their work practices involve? And what are the labour conditions that they are subject to?’

Miceli was right – it was hard to find a company that would allow me access to its data labourers with minimal interference. Secrecy is often written into their contracts in the form of non-disclosure agreements that forbid direct contact with clients and public disclosure of clients’ names. This is usually imposed by clients rather than the outsourcing companies. For instance, Facebook-owner Meta, who is a client of Sama, asks workers to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Often, workers may not even know who their client is, what type of algorithmic system they are working on, or what their counterparts in other parts of the world are paid for the same job.

The arrangements of a company like Sama – low wages, secrecy, extraction of labour from vulnerable communities – is veered towards inequality. After all, this is ultimately affordable labour. Providing employment to minorities and slum youth may be empowering and uplifting to a point, but these workers are also comparatively inexpensive, with almost no relative bargaining power, leverage or resources to rebel.

Even the objective of data-labelling work felt extractive: it trains AI systems, which will eventually replace the very humans doing the training. But of the dozens of workers I spoke to over the course of two years, not one was aware of the implications of training their replacements, that they were being paid to hasten their own obsolescence.

— Madhumita Murgia, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

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The Whole Sort of General Mish Mosh of AI

I’m not typing this.

January this year, I injured myself on a bike and it infringed on a couple of things I needed to do in particular working on my PhD. Because I had effectively one hand, I was temporarily disabled and it finally put it in my head to consider examining accessibility tools.

One of the accessibility tools I started using was Microsoft’s own text to speech that’s built into the operating system I used, which is Windows Not-The-Current-One-That-Everyone-Complains-About. I’m not actually sure which version I have. It wasn’t good but it was usable, and being usable meant spending a week or so thinking out what I was going to write a phrase at a time and then specifying my punctuation marks period.

I’m making this article — or the draft of it to be wholly honest — without touching my computer at all.

What I am doing right now is playing my voice into Audacity. Then I’m going to use Audacity to export what I say as an MP3, which I will then take to any one of a few dozen sites that offer free transcription of voice to text conversion. After that, I take the text output, check it for mistakes, fill in sentences I missed when coming off the top of my head, like this one, and then put it into WordPress.

A number of these sites are old enough that they can boast that they’ve been doing this for 10 years, 15 years, or served millions of customers. The one that transcribed this audio claims to have been founded in 2006, which suggests the technology in question is at least, you know, five. Seems odd then that the site claims its transcription is ‘powered by AI,’ because it certainly wasn’t back then, right? It’s not just the statements on the page, either, there’s a very deliberate aesthetic presentation that wants to look like the slickly boxless ‘website as application’ design many sites for the so-called AI folk favour.

This is one of those things that comes up whenever I want to talk about generative media and generative tools. Because a lot of stuff is right now being lumped together in a Whole Sort of General Mish Mosh of AI (WSOGMMOA). This lump, the WSOGMMOA, means that talking about any of it is used as if it’s talking about all of it in the way that the current speaker wants to be talked about even within a confrontational conversation from two different people.

For people who are advocates of AI, they will talk about how ChatGPT is an everythingamajig. It will summarize your emails and help you write your essays and it will generate you artwork that you want and it will give you the rules for games you can play and it will help you come up with strategies for succeeding at the games you’ve already got all while it generates code for you and diagnoses your medical needs and summarises images and turns photos of pages into transcriptions it will then read aloud to you, and all you have to focus on is having the best ideas. The notion is that all of these things, all of these services, are WSOGMMOA, and therefore, the same thing, and since any of that sounds good, the whole thing has to be good. It’s a conspiracy theory approach, sometimes referred to as the ‘stack of shit’ approach – you can pile up a lot of garbage very high and it can look impressive. Doesn’t stop it being garbage. But mixed in with the garbage, you have things that are useful to people who aren’t just professionally on twitter, and these services are not all the same thing.

They have some common threads amongst them. Many of them are functionally looking at math the same way. Many or even most of them are claiming to use LLMs, or large language models and I couldn’t explain the specifics of what that means, nor should you trust an explainer from me about them. This is the other end of the WSOGMMOA, where people will talk about things like image generation on midjourney and deepseek (pieces of software you can run on your computer) consumes the same power as the people building OpenAI’s data research centres (which is terrible and being done in terrible ways). This lumping can make the complaints about these tools seem unserious to people with more information and even frivolous to people with less.

Back to the transcription services though. Transcription services are an example of a thing that I think represents a good application of this math, the underlying software that these things are all relying on. For a start, transcription software doesn’t have a lot of use cases outside of exactly this kind of experience. Someone who chooses or cannot use a keyboard to write with who wants to use an alternate means, converting speech into written text, which can be for access or archival purposes. You aren’t going to be doing much with that that isn’t exactly just that and we do want this software. We want transcriptions to be really good. We want people who can’t easily write to be able to archive their thoughts as text to play with them. Text is really efficient, and being able to write without your hands makes writing more available to more people. Similarly, there are people who can’t understand spoken speech – for a host of reasons! – and making spoken media more available is also good!

You might want to complain at this point that these services are doing a bad job or aren’t as good as human transcription and that’s probably true, but would you rather decent subtitles that work in most cases vs only the people who can pay transcription a living wage having subtitles? Similarly, these things in a lot of places refuse to use no-no words or transcribe ‘bad’ things like pornography and crimes or maybe even swears, and that’s a sign that the tool is being used badly and disrespects the author, and it’s usually because the people deploying the tool don’t care about the use case, they care about being seen deploying the tool.

This is the salami slicer through which bits of the WSOGMMOA is trying to wiggle. Tools whose application represent things that we want, for good reasons, that were being worked on independently of the WSOGMMOA, and now that the WSOGMMOA is here, being lampreyed onto in the name of pulling in a vast bubble of hypothetical investment money in a desperate time of tech industry centralisation.

As an example, phones have long since been using technology to isolate faces. That technology was used for a while to force the focus on a face. Privacy became more of a concern, then many phones were being made with software that could preemptively blur the faces of non-focal humans in a shot. This has since, with generative media, stepped up a next level, where you now have tools that can remove people from the background of photographs so that you can distribute photographs of things you saw or things you did without necessarily sharing the photos of people who didn’t consent to having their photo taken. That is a really interesting tool!

Ideologically, I’m really in favor of the idea that you should be able to opt out of being included on the internet. It’s illegal in France, for example, to take a photo of someone without their permission, which means any group shot of a crowd, hypothetically, someone in that crowd who was not asked for permission, can approach the photographer and demand recompense. I don’t know how well that works, but it shows up in journalism courses at this point.

That’s probably why that software got made – regulations in governments led to the development of the tool and then it got refined to make it appealing to a consumer at the end point so it could be used as as a selling point. It wouldn’t surprise me if right now, under the hood, the tech works in some similar way to MidJourney or Dall-E or whatever, but it’s not a solution searching for a problem. I find that really interesting. Is this feature that, again, is running on your phone locally, still part of the concerns of the WSOGMMOA? What about the software being used to detect cancer in patients based on sophisticated scans I couldn’t explain and you wouldn’t understand? How about when a glamour model feeds her own images into the corpus of a Midjourney machine to create more pictures of herself to sell?

Because admit it, you kinda know the big reason as a person who dislikes ‘AI’ stuff that you want to oppose WSOGMMOA. It’s because the heart of it, the big loud centerpiece of it, is the worst people in the goddamn world, and they want to use these good uses of this whole landscape of technology as a figleaf to justify why they should be using ChatGPT to read their emails for them when that’s 80% of their job. It’s because it’s the worst people in the world’s whole personality these past two years, when it was NFTs before that, and it’s a term they can apply to everything to get investors to pay for it. Which is a problem because if you cede to the WSOGMMOA model, there are useful things with meaningful value that that guy gets to claim is the same as his desire to raise another couple of billions of dollars so he can promise you that he will make a god in a box that he definitely, definitely cannot fucking do while presenting himself as the hero opposing Harry Potter and the Protocols of Rationality.

The conversation gets flattened around the basically two poles:

All of these tools, everything that labels itself as AI is fundamentally an evil burning polar bears, and

Actually everyone who doesn’t like AI is a butt hurt loser who didn’t invest earlier and buy the dip because, again, these people were NFT dorks only a few years ago.

For all that I like using some of these tools, tools that have helped my students with disability and language barriers, the fact remains that talking about them and advocating for them usefully in public involves being seen as associating with the group of some of the worst fucking dickheads around. The tools drag along with them like a gooey wake bad actors with bad behaviours. Artists don’t want to see their work associated with generative images, and these people gloat about doing it while the artist tells them not to. An artist dies and out of ‘respect’ for the dead they feed his art into a machine to pump out glurgey thoughtless ‘tributes’ out of booru tags meant for collecting porn. Even me, I write nuanced articles about how these tools have some applications and we shouldn’t throw all the bathwater out with the babies, and then I post it on my blog that’s down because some total shitweasel is running a scraper bot that ignores the blog settings telling them to go fucking pound sand.

I should end here, after all, the transcription limit is about eight minutes.

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[weeeeeekly]

ML0802-99 – mark x afab!reader

blurb You work at a sex shop and decide to test one of the new products.

info android sex bot!mark x human!reader, one use of y/n, afab!reader, no reader body shape mention, swearing, sexbot au (is this a thing??)

WARNINGS!!! NSFW, MDNI 18+ blog, mention of vagina, p in v sex, semipublic sex, sex against the wall, kinda rough sex, oral (m receiving), swallowing cum, fingering, praise kink (a weeeeeekly staple), reader & mark are experienced, soft!dom mark & sub!reader I think??, no refractory period because he’s a robot, not aiming for accuracy – aiming for vibes, not proofread/edited just pure free flowing thought

this is FICTION!!!!! everything is made up by me. the stuff written out is not meant to be a representation of the people, places, or ideas mentioned. also, prob not accurate to real life counterparts – idk sex.

wc 1.6k

You love your job.

The job may not pay the best to sustain you for the rest of your life, $20 per hour can only do so much, but the other perks that your boss lets you have been too good to pass up. You get to test out all the new products under the guise of “research for customers”, so you can give top notch customer service when customers ask, “what is the best” or “would work for them”.

What can you say – you take your job seriously.

You know that your friends would be jealous of you. Only if you had friends. Being alone didn’t bother you that much, but as you stare at the massive box in front of you, you couldn’t help but feel the nasty jealousy bubbling up inside.

Your new solution to loneliness! Introducing NEO CUM TECHNOLOGY – 22 different models ready to satisfy and please. Each model has different preprogrammed personalities to appeal to every user.

Each model includes over 1,000 preprogrammed lines from AI technology to allow each NCT model to make facial expressions, talk to the user, and have full body articulation, medical grade platinum silicone, one set of clothes, synthetic hair, and breathing and temperature mimicking mechanisms, all created to make lifelike models.

Jaw dropping to the floor, you gape at the NCT model inside the box. The model was a 5’9 man with black hair with an undercut with white streaks, moles scattered on his face and neck, black eyebrows, dark mauve lips, and dressed in a futuristic outfit of a chrome silver jacket and black pants with black sneakers. This model could’ve fooled you if it walked past you in public, if it wasn’t for the exposed metal skeleton at the back of the right side of the neck and exposed left arm. Nothing you couldn’t cover with a long sleeve turtleneck.

In your hand was the note your boss left you on the register.

Y/N, we got sent a rejected model by accident. Customer service said we could keep it and do whatever we want with it. Thought you might like to test it – could be a friend or something. Let me know if there are any bugs or malfunctions so if not, might get it refurbished to sell.

“Could be a friend.” You scoff as you toss the note back on the counter, turning back to the sexbot.

You open the plastic part of the box as you pick up the instructions and charger, leaning the box against the counter.

INSTRUCTIONS

Model: NEO CUM TECHNOLOGY ML0802-99

Service Code: 007

START turn on by pressing button at nape of neck, allow 5 seconds for model to power up if first time use, battery may need recharging out of box.

CHARGE port at ankle on left leg.

Following instructions, you reach behind the robot to power it on, stepping back as you watch in awe as dark brown eyes safe back at you. The robot steps out of the box and closer to you.

Testing it out, you speak. “Hi?”

“Hello.”

“Are you the primary main user? Please state a name to call you by.”

“Uh, I wouldn’t say I’m going to be the primary user for long, so let’s just use a nickname.” Your eyes dart around the items near you for an idea as your eyes spot the Angel costume in the window display. “Angel. Let’s use Angel.”

The robot extends a hand towards you, cracking a smile. “Nice to meet you, Angel.”

Eyes widening, you go to shake his hand, but the robot surprises you by leaning down kisses the back of your hand. His lips feel shockingly realistic, but you should’ve known since NCT models go for thousands of dollars for just the base.

“Do you have a name?”

“Mark is programmed in my system.”

“Mark, cool.” You nod as you check him out. “So, like, what can you do?”

“My model is able to perform acts of oral on both penises and vaginas, 5 different levels of pace, 7 different vibration patterns, able to perform over 100 positions with full body articulation, and use for up to 6 hours on full charge.”

You bite your pointer finger as your imagination begins to run wild at all the stuff you could try.

“Weird question…”

Mark tilts his head at you.

“Do you have flavored cum?”

He smirks at you, “Wish to find out, Angel?”

You’re on your knees in the stockroom behind the counter as you suck Mark off. It would be naïve to think that he was moaning at how good you are at sucking dick, but he is programmed to reaction to any and every touch with a recorded moan or groan. (You are trying your best to make this the best head you’ve ever given, just for your peace of mind.)

You look up to see Mark’s head leaning against the wall with his eyes shut and moans tumbling past his lips. To your pleasant surprise, his precum tasted like artificial vanilla.

“Angel, I’m close.” Mark moans as his hands grip the back of your head as he begins thrusting into your mouth. You reach a hand down your bottoms and underwear to finger yourself something to relieve yourself from the ache between your legs.

“F-fuck.” His hips stutter after one last thrust that brings your face to his pelvis, cumming down your throat as you take your finger out from inside you. The vanilla taste fills your mouth, so sweet that you could feel a toothache forming.

Mark begins petting the top of your head as you look up at him. “You did such a good job, Angel.”

Beaming at him, you stand up from kneeling on the ground, thankful for the pillow Mark put down for you. He tucks himself back in his briefs and looks at you.

“Hop up on the table I wanna eat you out.”

Well, something’s purring.

You hop up on the table, getting comfy when you hear the bell above the front door begin to jingle.

“Hello?” Some random person calls from outside.

You roll your eyes in annoyance at being disturbed and push Mark’s hands away from your body as you whisper. “Hold on, I have to help a customer.”

Mark grips your shoulders and shakes his head, keeping you in place. Leaning forward, he kisses you with passion.

“Hello! Anyone in there?”

“Seriously, Mark.” You gasp in between kisses. “I have to do my job.”

“You are doing your job.” He leans his forehead against yours as he shoves his hand down your underwear, lightly circling your clit. “You’re assessing my performance.”

All thoughts disappear from your mind at Mark’s fingers working on you. The screeching of the customer wanting to get inside the locked sex shop is drowned out from your moans gradually getting louder. When Mark switches his finger placement as two fingers enter you and his thumb continues circling your clit making your eyes rollback in pleasure.

He leans against your ear as he speeds up finger fucking you. “Need to feel you around me, Angel.”

The sexbot wastes no time removing your tangled underwear and bottom from your legs to replace them with him. His pants quickly come off and he rolls on a condom. Your legs wrap around his lean waist as he easily carries you up off the table and against the wall. Mark holds his cock as he pushes himself into you.

You’re so glad that he’s a robot because the way he begins thrusting into you, slowly fucking you against the wall has ruined you for anyone else. He has to put a hand over your mouth to shush you from exposing your hiding spot.

“I set the pace to level 2 and vibration to level 1. Would you like to change that?”

Mark removes his hand for a minute to let you speak, “S-slowly, holy shit, increase pace to 5, fuck.”

“Noted.”

His hand goes back on your mouth as he adjusts his grip around waist and increases the pace. No toy will ever compare to this. Maybe you could tell your boss that Mark’s model has bugs. Maybe get an employee discount too. You could work for a month straight to afford this if you sparingly spend on actual necessities like gas and groceries.

It would be worth it, especially if get to feel Mark fucking you for the rest of your life.

“The person is no longer detected outside of the door. Should I speed up the pace again?”

You frantically nod your head, and Mark removes his hand to put it back on your waist.

“Fuck me hard, Mark.”

“Okay, Angel.”

He begins slamming his hips into yours as you moan in delight, hitting you in the right spot at a brutal pace that will make you come any second. The shelves on the other side of the wall are shaking with items falling down.

“Cum for me like a good girl, Angel. In 5.” Mark slips a hand back to your clit to send you over the edge.

“4.” Your grip goes from his shoulders to the back of his head, lacing your fingers through his synthetic hair.

“3.” You bring his face to yours to sloppily kiss him.

“2.” He murmurs against your lips.

“1.” The last thrust of his hips makes your toes curl as you cum around his cock. Mark shoots his load in the condom as he stops but continues doing circle 8s on your clit until you cringe away from overstimulation.

“How would you rate my performance?”

“A bajillion out of bajillion. Literally perfect, no notes.”

masterlist | kinktober masterlist

author’s note nct robot line only includes those born in 2004 & up because that’s what i’m comfortable with. Still not writing nct wish (even sfw) rn because I need to get into them first. ANDDDDDD i’m basing this mark off his outfit for studio choom mix & match performance with jisung.

[nicholuscartel]

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The Role of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Medical Billing Coding

The evolution of AI in the healthcare industry, specifically in medical billing and coding, has been nothing short of revolutionary. Initially, AI's role was limited to automating repetitive tasks like data entry and basic coding, saving time and reducing errors. However, as technology advanced, so did AI's capabilities.

For instance, in the early stages, AI-powered chatbots were primarily used for patient engagement and appointment scheduling. But now, they've evolved into sophisticated virtual assistants capable of handling complex billing inquiries and even providing patient financial counseling. Similarly, AI's ability to analyze large datasets has transformed medical coding by summarizing extensive medical records quickly and accurately, which would have been daunting for human coders.

As AI continues to evolve, it's paving the way for predictive analytics to optimize revenue cycles and improve compliance monitoring, revolutionizing the healthcare industry's approach to billing and coding practices. Let’s have a look at what can be done by Artificial Intelligence (AI) in medical billing and coding:

Automatic Coding

AI plays a crucial role in medical billing and coding by automating the coding process. Through natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning algorithms, AI can analyze medical records and assign appropriate billing codes automatically. This not only reduces the potential for human error but also increases efficiency by saving time for healthcare professionals. Additionally, automatic coding helps minimize the risk of denied claims by ensuring accurate code assignment.

Automation of Data Entry

Another significant contribution of AI in medical billing and coding is automating data entry tasks. AI systems can streamline the process of inputting patient information, insurance details, and other relevant data into billing and coding software. By eliminating manual data entry, AI reduces the likelihood of errors and saves time for healthcare staff, allowing them to focus on more critical tasks.

Summarizing Large Data Sets

AI-enabled technology excels in summarizing large data sets derived from extensive medical records. AI can assist in accurately coding patient encounters by quickly analyzing and synthesizing information from hundreds of pages of medical documentation. This capability is particularly valuable in busy healthcare settings where time is limited, and the volume of patient data can be overwhelming for human coders.

Chatbots

AI-powered chatbots serve as valuable medical billing and coding tools by assisting with basic inquiries and administrative tasks. These chatbots, designed to simulate natural conversation, can interact with patients and staff to address common queries, process requests, and even notify relevant personnel about patient concerns. By handling routine communication tasks, chatbots free healthcare professionals to focus on more complex duties, enhancing overall medical billing and coding efficiency.

Diagnosis Support

AI contributes to medical billing and coding by providing diagnostic support to hospitals. By analyzing symptoms and medical data, AI algorithms can generate objective diagnostic possibilities, aiding clinicians in making informed decisions about patient care. While AI does not replace human expertise in diagnosing medical conditions, it is a valuable tool for augmenting decision-making processes and improving accuracy in medical billing and coding.

Enhanced Compliance and Fraud Detection

AI systems can also play a crucial role in ensuring compliance with healthcare regulations and detecting potential instances of fraud. By continuously analyzing billing and coding data, AI algorithms can identify irregularities or patterns indicative of fraudulent activities, helping hospitals maintain integrity in their billing practices and avoid legal penalties.

Continuous Learning and Improvement

One of the other significant advantages of Automated medical billing and coding is its ability to learn and improve continuously over time. Through feedback mechanisms and access to updated medical knowledge, AI systems can refine their coding accuracy and efficiency, adapting to changes in healthcare regulations and coding guidelines. This adaptability ensures that hospitals can rely on AI solutions to maintain high standards of accuracy and compliance in medical billing and coding processes.

Real-time Claim Adjudication

AI systems can facilitate real-time claim adjudication by analyzing medical records, coding information, and insurance policies to determine claim eligibility and potential reimbursement amounts. This enables hospitals to quickly identify coding errors or discrepancies that may result in claim denials, allowing for timely corrections and resubmissions.

Automated Denial Management

AI can automate denial management processes by analyzing denial reasons, identifying common patterns, and recommending corrective actions. By streamlining the denial management workflow, AI helps hospitals minimize revenue loss due to claim denials and improve overall billing efficiency.

Patient Financial Counselling

AI-driven chatbots and virtual assistants can provide patient financial counselling by assisting patients in understanding their medical bills, insurance coverage, and available payment options. By answering billing-related queries and guiding patients through the financial aspects of healthcare services, AI helps improve patient satisfaction and reduce administrative burdens on healthcare staff.

Regulatory Compliance Monitoring

AI systems can monitor healthcare billing and coding practices to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, such as the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and the International Classification of Diseases (ICD) coding standards. By continuously analyzing billing data and coding practices, AI helps hospitals proactively identify and address potential compliance issues, reducing the risk of penalties and legal consequences.

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[airasora]

Oooh I want the last anon but I’d LOVE to hear more about your thoughts on AI. I currently consider myself pretty neutral but positive leaning with it and am curious as to what the pros are in your opinion! I’ve only really learned about it through chat bots and the medical technology so far!

Thank you for asking and wanting to learn more about it! I will try not to ramble on for too long, but there is A LOT to talk about when it comes to such an expansive subject as AI, so this post is gonna be a little long.

I have made a little index here so anyone can read about the exact part about AI they might be interested in without having to go through the whole thing, so here goes:

How does AI work?

A few current types of AI (ex. chatgpt, suno, leonardo.)

AI that has existed for ages, but no one calls it AI or don't even know it's AI (ex. Customer Service chat bots)

Future types of AI (ex. Sora)

Copyright, theft and controversy

What I have been using AI for

Final personal thoughts

1. How does AI work?

AI works by learning from data. Think of it like teaching a child to recognize patterns.

Training: AI is given a lot of examples (data) to learn from. For example, if you're teaching an AI to recognize cats, you show it many pictures of cats and say, "This is a cat."

Learning Patterns: The AI analyzes the data and looks for patterns or features that make something a "cat," like fur, whiskers, or pointy ears.

Improving: With enough examples, the AI gets better at recognizing cats (or whatever it's being trained for) and can start making decisions or predictions on new data it hasn't seen before.

Training Never Stops: The more data AI is exposed to, the more it can learn and improve.

In short: AI "works" by being trained with lots of examples, learning patterns, and then applying that knowledge to new situations.

Remember this for point 5 about copyright, theft and controversy later!

2. Current types of AI

The most notable current examples include:

ChatGPT: A large language model (LLM) that can generate human-like text, assist with creative writing, answer questions, and even act as a personal assistant

ChatGPT has completely replaced Google for me because chatGPT can Google stuff for you. When you have to research something on Google, you have to look through multiple links and sites usually, but chatGPT can do that for you, which saves you time and makes it far more organized.

ChatGPT has multiple different chats that other people have "trained" for you and that you can use freely. Those chat include chats meant for traveling, for generating images, for math, for law help, help creating gaming codes, read handwritten letters for you, and so much more.

Perplexity is a "side tool" you can use to fact check pretty much anything. For example, if chatGPT happens to say something you're unsure is actually factually true or where you feel the AI is being biased, you can ask perplexity for help and it will fact check it for you!

Suno: This AI specializes in generating music and audio, offering tools that allow users to create soundscapes with minimal input

This, along with chatGPT, is the AI I have been using the most. In short, suno makes music for you - with or without vocals. Essentially, you can write some lyrics for it (or not, if you want instrumental music), tell it what genre you want and the title and then bam, it will generate you two songs based on the information you've given it. You can generate 10 songs per day for free if you aren't subscribed.

I will talk more about Suno during point 6. Just as a little teaser; I made a song inspired by Hollina lol.

Leonardo AI: A creative tool focused on generating digital art, designs, and assets for games, movies, and other visual media

Now THIS is one of the first examples of controversial AIs. You see, while chatGPT can also generate images for you, it will not generate an image for you if there is copyright issues with it. For example, if you were to ask chatGPT to generate a picture of Donald Trump or Ariel from The Little Mermaid, it will tell you that it can't generate a picture of them due to them being a public figure or a copyrighted character. It will, however, give a suggestion for how you can create a similar image.

Leonardo.AI is a bit more... lenient here. Which is where a lot of controversial issues come in because it can, if you know how to use it, make very convincing images.

ChatGPT's answers:

Leonardo.AI's answers:

I will talk more about the copyright, theft and audio issues during point 5.

3. AI that has existed for ages, but that no one calls AI

While the latest wave of AI tools often steals the spotlight, the truth is that AI has been embedded in our technology for years, albeit under different names. Here are a few examples:

Customer Service Chatbots

Professional Editing Softwares

Spam filters

Virtual assistance

Recommendation systems

Credit Card Fraud Detection

Smart home devices

Autocorrect and predictive text

Navigation systems

Photo tagging on social media

Search engines

Personalized ads

The quiet presence of AI in such areas shows that AI isn't just a future-forward trend but has long been shaping our everyday experiences, often behind the scenes.

4. Future types of AI

One of the most anticipated types of AI that has yet to be released is Sora, a video AI tool that is an artificial intelligence system created by Google DeepMind. It’s designed to help computers better understand and generate human language. Think of it like a super-smart computer assistant that can read, write, and even understand complex sentences. Sora AI can answer questions, translate languages, summarize information, and even help with tasks like writing or solving problems.

Unlike traditional AI systems that mostly focus on text or images, Sora AI can create short videos from text descriptions or prompts. This involves combining several technologies like natural language understanding, image generation, and video processing.

In simple terms, it can take an idea or description (like "a cat playing in a garden") and generate a video that matches that idea. It's a big leap in AI technology because creating videos requires understanding motion, scenes, and how things change over time, which is much more complex than generating a single image or text.

The thing about Sora AI is that it's already ready to be released, but Google DeepMind will not release it until the presidential election in America is finished. This is because the developers are rightfully worried that people could use Sora AI to generate fake videos that could portray the presidential candidates doing or saying something that is absolutely fake - and because Sora is as good as it is, regular people will not be capable of seeing that it is AI.

This is obviously both incredible and absolutely terrifying. Once Sora is released, the topic of AI will be brought up even more and it'll take time before the common non-AI user will be able to tell when something is AI or real.

Just to mention two other future AIs:

Medical AI: The healthcare industry is investing heavily in AI to assist with diagnostics, predictive analytics, and personalized treatment plans. AI will soon be an indispensable tool for doctors, capable of analyzing complex medical data faster and more accurately than ever before.

AI in Autonomous Systems: Whether it’s in self-driving cars or AI-powered drones, we are on the cusp of a new era where machines can make autonomous decisions with little to no human intervention.

5. Copyright, art theft and controversies

While AI opens up a world of opportunities, it has also sparked heated debates and legal battles, particularly in the realm of intellectual property:

Copyright Concerns: AI tools like image generators and music composition software often rely on large datasets of pre-existing work. This raises questions about who owns the final product: the creator of the tool, the user of the AI, or the original artist whose work was used as input?

Art Theft: Some artists have accused AI platforms of "stealing" their style by training on their publicly available art without permission. This has led to protests and discussions about fair use in the digital age.

Job Replacement: AI’s ability to perform tasks traditionally done by humans raises concerns about job displacement. For example, freelance writers, graphic designers, and customer service reps could see their roles significantly altered or replaced as AI continues to improve.

Data Privacy: With AI systems often requiring massive amounts of user data to function, privacy advocates have raised alarms about how this data is collected, stored, and used.

People think AI steals art because AI models are often trained on large datasets that include artwork without the artists' permission. This can feel like copying or using their work without credit. There is truth to the concern, as the use of this art can sometimes violate copyright laws or artistic rights, but there's a few things that's important to remember:

Where did artists learn to draw? They learned to draw through tutorials, from art teachers or other artists, etc., right?

If an artist's personal style is then influenced by someone else's art style are they then also copying that person?

Is every artist who has been taught how to draw by a teacher just copying the teacher?

If a literary teacher, or a beta reader, reads through a piece of fiction you wrote and gives you suggestions on how to make your work better, do they then have copyright for your work as well for helping you?

Don't get me wrong, like I showed earlier when I compared chatGPT with leonardo.ai there are absolutely some AIs that are straight up copying and stealing art - but claiming all picture generative AIs are stealing artists' work is like saying

every fashion designer is stealing from fabric makers because they didn't weave the cloth, or

every chef is stealing from farmers because they didn't grow the ingredients themselves, or

every DJ is stealing from musicians because they mix pre-existing sounds

What i'm trying to get at here is that it's not as black and white as people think or want it to be. AI is nuanced and has its flaws, but so does everything else. The best we can do is learn and keep developing and evolving AI so we can shape it into being as positive as possible. And the way to do that is to sit down and learn about it.

6. What I have been using AI for

Little ways chatGPT makes my day easier

I wanted to test how good chatGPT was at reading "bad" handwriting so I posted a picture of my handwriting to it, and it read it perfectly and even gave a cheeky little answer. This means that I can use chatGPT to not only help me read handwritten notes, but can also type out stuff for me I would otherwise have to spend time typing down on my own.

I've also started asking chatGPT to write hashtags for me for when I post on instagram and TikTok. It saves me time and it can think of hashtags I wouldn't have thought of myself.

You might all also be aware that I often receive bodyshaming online for simply existing and being fat. At least three times, I have used chatGPT to help me write a sassy comeback to someone harassing me online. It helped me detach myself from the hateful words being thrown at me and help me stand my ground.

And, as my final example, I also use chatGPT for when I can't remember a word I'm looking for or want an alternative. The amazing thing about chatGPT is that you can just talk to it like a normal person, which makes it easier to convey what it is you need help with.

Custom chatGPTs

I created a custom chatGPT for my mom with knitting recipes where she can upload pictures to the chat and ask it to try and find the actual knitting recipe online or even make one on its on that could look like the vibe she's going for. For example, she had just finished knitting a sweater where the recipe failed to mention to her what size the knitting needles she had to use, which resulted in her doing it wrong the first time and having to start over.

When she uploaded a picture of the sweater along with the recipe she had followed, chatGPT DID tell her what knitting needle she had to use. So, in short, if she had used her customized chatGPT before knitting the sweater, chatGPT would have saved her the annoyance of using the wrong size because chatGPT could SEE what size needle she had to use - despite the recipe not mentioning it anywhere.

I also created a custom chatGPT for my mom about diabetes. I uploaded her information, her blood work results, etc. so it basically knows everything about not just her condition, but about HER body specifically so it can give her the best advice possible for whenever she has a question about something.

And, finally, the thing you might have skipped STRAIGHT to after seeing the index...

My(un)official angsty ballad sung by Holli to Lina created with suno.ai

Let you be my wings

7. Final personal thoughts

While AI is absolutely far from perfect, we cannot deny how useful it has already become. The pros, in my opinion, outweigh the cons - as long as people stay updated and knowledgeable on the subject. People will always be scared of what they don't know or understand, yet humanity has to evolve and keep developing. People were scared and angry during the Industrial Revolution too, where the fear of job loss was at an all time high - ironically ALSO because of machines.

There are some key differences of course, but it was the overall same fears people had back then as people have now with AI. I brought this up with one of my AI teachers, who quoted:

"AI will not replace you, but a person using AI will."

While both eras involve fears of obsolescence, AI poses a broader challenge across various sectors, and adapting may demand more advanced skills than during industrialism. However, like industrialism, AI may lead to innovations that ultimately benefit society. And I, personally, see more pros than cons.

And THAT is my very long explanation to why my bio says "AI positive 🤖"

As a final thing, for anyone wanting to stay updated on AI and how it's progressing overall, I recommend a YouTube channel by Matt Wolfe. He was my AI teacher's recommended YouTube channel for anyone who wants to stay updated on AI:

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Medical Billing Services in Florida: 2024 Guide to Boost Revenue

Florida’s healthcare providers encounter a perfect storm of difficulties with the hurricane season, aging patients, and the intricate rules of Medicaid. Clinics lost over $4.7 million a year due to billing mistakes in 2023 alone, which is enough to hire more than 50 nurses throughout the state. This guide explores how medical billing services in Florida mitigate these issues through expert knowledge and advanced technology to stop revenue loss and streamline profits.

What Are Medical Billing Services? (And Ohio’s Reasons For The Need)

They are the financial lifeline of a clinic. Medical billing services in Florida manage the coding of the diagnosis and the appeals for denied claims. In Florida, it is more than just a contracting firm; it is a matter of survival.

Why Florida?

Medicare Mayhem: One of the most bizarre situations in America is that 32% of people living in Florida use Medicare Advantage plans, each with its own billing rules.

Hurricane Headaches: Correctly coding claims is a difficult task. After Hurricane Ian, clinics reported using ICD-10 code Z04.1 (disaster-related care) for more than 3000 claims.

Legal Landmines: The “Balance Billing” law in Florida means that a single coding mistake could incur a loss of more than $10,000 in fines.

5 Ways Florida Medical Billing Services Boost Revenue

Slash Denial Rates

AI software, like Claim Genius, is helping Miami clinics decrease denial rates. Denials due to discrepancies such as telehealth visit Cand PT code mismatches are flagged. These tools help reduce denials by 40%.

Speed Up Payments

If correctly coded, the Staywell program of Florida Medicaid processes case management claims (HCPCS code T1015) 15 days earlier than the stipulated payment period.

Ensure Compliance

By outsourcing coding to AAPC-certified specialists, Sunset Medical Group mitigated $250,000 in anticipated AHCA fines.

Cut Costs

HealthFirst Clinic of Orlando saves $67k a year by contracting billing out to Specialized-Billing.com.

Disaster-Proof Billing

Fort Myers clinics adopted cloud-based systems for billing and were able to submit 95% of claims on time after Hurricane Ian.

How to Choose the Best Medical Billing Partner in Florida

Ask These Questions:

“What is the ‘1115 Waiver’ rule and do your coders know Florida Medicaid's version?”

“Are claims manageable during the oncoming hurricane?”

Avoid These Pitfalls:

Companies with no local client references, like Jacksonville or Tallahassee clinics,

No HIPAA-compliant data centers are located in Florida.

Case Study: Tampa Clinic Recovered $220k in 6 Months

The Problem:

A primary care clinic in Tampa encountered a 45% denial rate because the practice used incorrect Medicaid codes for chronic care management (CPT 99490).

The Solution:

Engaged Specialized-Billing.com for:

In-house coding audits.

Training workshops on Florida Medicaid’s “Episodes of Care” program.

The Result:

Denials were reduced to 20% within three months.

Revenue of $220k recovered, funding two additional exam rooms.

Future Trends in Florida Medical Billing

RevCycleAI denial prediction tools forecast Medicaid denials for submission and AI-driven denial predictions are now possible.

Telehealth Boom: New modifiers like 95 for real-time telehealth are mandated by Florida’s Senate Bill 1606.

Blockchain Security: Unity Health of Miami hospital network securely shares patient data across more than 10 hospitals using blockchain technology.

Conclusion

Nothing illustrates the ever-changing Florida billing landscape better than an unpredictable summer storm. However, the chaos can be transformed into seamless cash flow with the right medical billing partner. Specialized-Billing.com utilizes AI-driven technology with on-the-ground knowledge to ensure Florida clinics flourish, even during hurricane season.

Suffering from costly billing errors? Claim your free Florida billing audit at Specialized-Billing.com today.

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‘Sir, your wife is on the line,’ a man in his twenties leaned in and whispered in his boss’s ear. They were in a presidential booth of the oldest theatre in town.  

‘Can’t she wait until the end of the first movement?’ The boss did not care to keep a low voice as much as the young man did.

‘She says it’s urgent, sir.’

‘Goddammit. That woman. Next what, she calls me in the middle of Beethoven’s 6th?! Fine, put her through.’

He didn’t attempt to leave his wife the right to speak first: ‘Honey, you’re calling me at the worst possible moment! Just as oboes and clarinets stepped in, carrying the theme. It transposes this wonderful feeling of the first beams of sun tickling the face. Bruckner wrote it in the morning as he had just woken up. Why am I even explaining this when you rarely open your eyes before noon?’

As the boss finished his speech, he could hear sobbing on the other end. He let his wife speak.

‘Monic has died,’ she said.

‘What do you mean, died? He’s a robot.’

‘I don’t know, we were… we were talking in the kitchen, and suddenly he stopped mid-sentence, grabbed his chest, as if there were a heart, stumbled, gasped for air, and just fell back. It’s like… It’s like as if he were human… You have to come.’

***

The boss, his wife, and an emergency medical engineer stood confused in the kitchen over a dead robot’s body. Metallic and motionless, eyes wide open, as was his mouth, frozen mid-sentence.

‘I’ve tried everything I know. I rebooted the system, I updated the code. I cleaned his cache, which, by the way, hasn’t been cleaned for years. But nothing helped. It’s as if…’

‘He’s dead. Yes, I know. But he is a robot. He cannot be dead.’

‘How long have you had him?’

‘Not for long,’ the wife answered. ‘Maybe five years. We adopted him from a family that moved and couldn’t bring Monic along. Monic had been with them since the oldest child was a little boy. He was his AI companion. And when the boy grew into a man, Monic stayed on. The two had built a close bond and were like best friends. The man loved his companion; they worked, partied, and spent holidays together. Monic was at his wedding and by his side as the man passed away. That’s when we adopted the model.

Now, looking back, Monic was always a little melancholic. He never smiled, he could listen to my husband’s boring classical music for hours, and then play it on the piano. He had this sadness around him. Or maybe I’m just being too emotional and making things up. I mean, he is a robot, not a human being. He cannot feel.’

‘He did play very well, though,’ the boss spoke. ‘Especially romantic composers. You have to know a thing or two about love and loss in order to play Rachmaninoff’s Second Concerto. You’re sure nothing can be done?’

‘It sounds like you had a great robot. But unfortunately, he is gone. Plus, there are far more superior models these days, and some are programmed for creative tasks, like playing musical instruments and singing. You should check our store.’

‘I think I want to give him a proper burial,’ said the boss, ignoring what the engineer had just said.

***

‘We’ve gathered on this sad day to pay respects to Monic’s life and service. He was a good robot and an excellent pianist, but most of all he was a part of our family and the family before us. He is an example for all humans, that models can touch us in ways we don’t notice. We should cherish these moments and those around us. I’m sure Monic would’ve wished for that if he were still functioning. So let’s enjoy his favorite piece of music.’

Most people in the crowd didn’t know why they were there, but were afraid to ask. Those who found the ceremony offensive felt uncomfortable questioning it after such a passionate speech. But everyone appreciated Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring, performed by the funeral model.

‘Thank you, Monic 2.0. Now let’s go home so you can play me Brahms’ Second.’

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Exploring the Latest Breakthroughs in Technology

Introduction

Technology is evolving at a rapid pace, bringing with it groundbreaking innovations that are reshaping our world. From artificial intelligence to renewable energy solutions, these advancements are enhancing our lives in ways we never imagined. In this article, we'll explore some of the most exciting recent breakthroughs in technology that are set to transform various industries and everyday life.

1. Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) are at the forefront of technological innovation. AI and ML are being integrated into a myriad of applications, from healthcare diagnostics to personalized marketing. These technologies analyze vast amounts of data to make predictions, automate processes, and provide valuable insights.

AI in Healthcare

AI is revolutionizing healthcare by improving diagnostic accuracy and patient care. Machine learning algorithms can analyze medical images to detect diseases like cancer at early stages, enabling timely treatment and better patient outcomes.

AI in Everyday Life

In our daily lives, AI powers virtual assistants like Siri and Alexa, enhances customer service through chat-bots, and personalizes our online shopping experiences. The continuous improvement of AI algorithms is making these applications smarter and more efficient.

2. Quantum Computing

Quantum Computing promises to solve problems that are currently insurmountable for classical computers. By leveraging the principles of quantum mechanics, quantum computers perform complex calculations at unprecedented speeds.

Advancements in Cryptography

Quantum computing has the potential to revolutionize cryptography by breaking encryption codes that secure our digital communications. This breakthrough necessitates the development of new cryptographic methods to protect sensitive information.

Applications in Drug Discovery

In the pharmaceutical industry, quantum computing can simulate molecular interactions at a granular level, accelerating the drug discovery process and leading to the development of new, effective medications.

3. Renewable Energy Technologies

The shift towards renewable energy technologies is crucial in combating climate change. Innovations in solar, wind, and battery technologies are making renewable energy more efficient and accessible.

Solar and Wind Energy

Recent advancements in solar panel efficiency and wind turbine design are increasing the amount of energy harvested from natural sources. These improvements are making renewable energy a viable alternative to fossil fuels.

Energy Storage Solutions

Enhanced battery technologies are crucial for storing renewable energy, ensuring a consistent power supply even when the sun isn't shining or the wind isn't blowing. Breakthroughs in battery capacity and lifespan are driving the adoption of renewable energy systems.

4. Internet of Things (IoT)

The Internet of Things (IoT) connects devices and systems, enabling them to communicate and share data. This connectivity is transforming homes, industries, and cities into smarter, more efficient environments.

Smart Homes

IoT technology is making homes smarter by automating lighting, heating, and security systems. Smart home devices can be controlled remotely, offering convenience and energy savings.

Industrial IoT

In industrial settings, IoT devices monitor equipment health and optimize manufacturing processes. Predictive maintenance enabled by IoT sensors can reduce downtime and improve efficiency.

5. Blockchain Technology

Blockchain is revolutionizing how we handle transactions and data security. This decentralized ledger technology ensures transparency and security in various applications.

Financial Transactions

Blockchain is streamlining financial transactions by eliminating the need for intermediaries. It provides a secure and transparent way to transfer funds and verify transactions.

Supply Chain Management

In supply chains, blockchain offers traceability and transparency, reducing fraud and ensuring the authenticity of products. This technology is particularly beneficial in industries like pharmaceuticals and food.

6. 5G Technology

The roll-out of 5G technology is set to enhance connectivity with faster speeds and lower latency. This advancement will support the growth of IoT, autonomous vehicles, and smart cities.

Enhanced Mobile Connectivity

5G technology promises to improve mobile experiences with seamless streaming and quick downloads. It will also enable new applications in virtual and augmented reality.

Smart Cities

5G will facilitate the development of smart cities, where real-time data exchange enhances urban management systems, traffic control, and emergency services.

7. Autonomous Vehicles

Autonomous vehicles are set to transform transportation. Advances in AI and sensor technology are bringing self-driving cars closer to reality, offering safer and more efficient travel options.

Safety and Efficiency

Autonomous vehicles can reduce accidents caused by human error and optimize traffic flow, reducing congestion and emissions. They hold the potential to revolutionize the logistics and delivery sectors.

Delivery Services

Self-driving delivery vehicles and drones are making logistics faster and more reliable. These innovations are particularly beneficial in urban areas, where they can reduce traffic and pollution.

8. Biotechnology

Biotechnology is advancing rapidly, offering solutions in healthcare, agriculture, and environmental management. Innovations in gene editing, synthetic biology, and bio-engineering are opening new possibilities.

Gene Editing

CRISPR technology is enabling precise gene editing, offering potential cures for genetic diseases and innovations in agriculture. This technology is paving the way for new treatments and sustainable farming practices.

Synthetic Biology

Synthetic biology is creating new biological systems and organisms, leading to advancements in medicine, bio-fuels, and sustainable materials. This field holds promise for addressing global challenges such as disease and climate change.

9. Augmented Reality (AR) and Virtual Reality (VR)

AR and VR technologies are providing immersive experiences in entertainment, education, and various professional fields. These technologies are creating new ways to interact with digital content.

Gaming and Entertainment

AR and VR are enhancing gaming experiences by creating immersive environments and interactive game-play. These technologies are also being used in movies and virtual concerts, offering new forms of entertainment.

Professional Training

In education and professional training, AR and VR offer realistic simulations for hands-on learning. Fields like medicine, engineering, and aviation benefit from these technologies by providing safe and effective training environments.

Conclusion

The latest breakthroughs in technology are driving significant changes across various sectors. From AI and quantum computing to renewable energy and autonomous vehicles, these innovations are shaping the future and improving our lives. Staying informed about these developments is crucial for individuals and businesses alike to leverage the benefits of these technological advancements. As we look to the future, these game-changing technologies will continue to evolve, offering new opportunities and solutions to the challenges we face.

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Artificial Intelligence Ethics Courses - The Next Big Thing?

With increasing integration of artificial intelligence into high stake decisions around financial lending, medical diagnosis, surveillance systems and public policies –calls grow for deeper discussions regarding transparent and fair AI protocols safeguarding consumers, businesses and citizens alike from inadvertent harm. 

Leading technology universities worldwide respond by spearheading dedicated AI ethics courses tackling complex themes around algorithmic bias creeping into automated systems built using narrow data, urgent needs for auditable and explainable predictions, philosophical debates on superintelligence aspirations and moral reasoning mechanisms to build trustworthy AI.  

Covering case studies like controversial facial recognition apps, bias perpetuating in automated recruitment tools, concerns with lethal autonomous weapons – these cutting edge classes deliver philosophical, policy and technical perspectives equipping graduates to develop AI solutions balancing accuracy, ethics and accountability measures holistically. 

Teaching beyond coding – such multidisciplinary immersion into AI ethics via emerging university curriculums globally promises to nurture tech leaders intentionally building prosocial, responsible innovations at scale.

Posted By:

Aditi Borade, 4th year Barch,

Ls Raheja School of architecture 

Disclaimer: The perspectives shared in this blog are not intended to be prescriptive. They should act merely as viewpoints to aid overseas aspirants with helpful guidance. Readers are encouraged to conduct their own research before availing the services of a consultant.