As I read online, I bookmark resources I find interesting and useful. I share these links about once a month here on my blog. This post includes links related to the environmental impact of AI, identifying AI images, generating AI images and videos, the impact of AI on L&D, WCAG accessibility standards, blogging, and useful tools.
The environmental impact of AI
What Uses More? Compare the environmental footprint of digital tasks
Stella Lee shared this tool to help you compare the environmental footprint of various digital tasks based on a number of variables.
Our contribution to a global environmental standard for AI | Mistral AI
Mistral shared their data on emissions, water consumption, and materials consumption for AI use. They also share tips for reducing your environmental impact when using AI, such as using smaller and more specific models.
Identifying AI images
How to spot fake AI photos
Interested in learning how forensics experts can identify AI images? Watch this 12-minute video explaining how image noise, vanishing points, and shadows can help you identify AI-generated images.
Real or AI Quiz: Can You Tell the Difference? » Britannica
Test your ability to distinguish between real and AI images with this quiz. I work with AI images a lot, and I still only got 8/10 on this quiz. I appreciate the explanations about what to look for and tips for critical review of media.
Texture and Pattern Repetition: AI sometimes struggles with complex textures or patterns, leading to noticeable repetition or awkward transitions. Students should look for unnatural patterns in textures like hair, skin, clothing, or background elements.
Generating AI images and videos
Better Images of AI
This nonprofit is collecting images that represent AI and technology while avoiding the typical metaphors and tropes. All images are Creative Commons licensed.
AI Art Generator: Free Image Generator from OpenArt
OpenArt has an image generator, but they also now have a tool for creating video stories with consistent characters between scenes. If you create a story from scratch, you can generate the images and then use image to video. I’m saving this one as a tool to test out in the future.
Prompts_JoshCavalier.docx
Josh Cavalier’s prompts for generating a scenario video with scenes of dialogue between two characters. The images and done in Midjourney. The videos and code to add interactivity are in Gemini (Veo). The whole process took him 35 minutes.
AI and L&D
L&D in the Age of AI: Doubling Down on What Makes Us Human
David Kelly shares ideas on human skills like contextual judgment, curation, and connection that are becoming more important in the age of AI.
We did it!!!
Mel Milloway shares an example of an interactive avatar for interview practice. Mel has been working out loud throughout the process of building this project to explain her work and the challenges she ran into throughout
WCAG accessibility standards
WCAG in Plain English – AAArdvark
If you’ve ever consulted the official Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) and felt befuddled by the wording, check out this site. This is a plain English guide to every WCAG standard.
Blogging
Taking Blogging Seriously
I think back to the heyday of edublogs when lots of individuals were writing and publishing regularly. I see some of it now in email and LinkedIn newsletters, but so many fewer people write regularly like this. Blogging (like all writing) helps you clarify your thinking. I’m a better ID because I’ve spent so much time blogging and thinking in public.
Blogging is deeply important to me because it’s a powerful mixture of two ideas: creative expression and finding the others.
—Tom Critchlow
Useful tools
Wondershare
Among other tools, Wondershare has tools for creating PDFs, including creating fillable PDF forms. Looks like a good alternative for Adobe Acrobat at a lower price. Thanks Keith Quinn for the recommendation.
Additional curated resources
Check out my complete library of links or my previous bookmarks posts.
