Maverick Indonesia

ChatGPT, an artificial intelligence(AI)-based chatbot developed by OpenAI has caught the attention of the media. Given its capabilities you’d think that journalists would rush to use it, at least as an aid to their story writing.  ChatGPT could do...

If there’s an easy way to describe what parenting life looks like, it would be a line from Barney in How I Met Your Mother. When he saw his newborn baby he said: “You are the love of my...

I have listened to many discussions among my fellow creative workers, surrounding the rise of artificial intelligence (AI). Some claim that it has the potential to replace human creativity. This conversation was sparked by the rising popularity of Dall-e...

Reading a book about Stoicism at the end of 2021, I found something that I think is the simplest, most relevant piece of philosophy. More than just a mere thought, it is something that you have to practice. And...

We often talk about how brutal haters can be on the internet, but rarely do we touch on ways public figures or anyone deal with them. A recent phenomenon, however, shows that money can sometimes effectively turn haters into...

It is really not surprising that just days after the new Penal Code was passed at the parliament, the Press Council immediately threatened to challenge it at the Constitutional Court citing threats to democracy, including to press freedom and...

In 1981 a popular song by the Buggles proclaimed that Video killed the Radio Star. The premise was that the new technology of video would supplant radio. The report of radio’sdeath was, however, premature. It continued to thrive worldwide...

Ironis. Kata yang tepat untuk menggambarkan tindakan pemblokiran yang dilakukan oleh Kemenkominfo terhadap platform gaming seperti Steam, Origin dan Epic Games.  Kemenkominfo telah merancang regulasi tentang penyelenggara sistem elektronik (PSE) lingkup privat sejak 2 tahun yang lalu melalui Peraturan...

Seorang pengamat media sosial populer Indonesia bulan lalu menyebut di Twitter bahwa salah satu media online terbesar di Indonesia baru saja kehilangan satu juta pembaca dalam sebulan, dan jumlahnya terus berlanjut. Sulit untuk membuktikan keakuratan pendapat tersebut apalagi dengan...

A popular Indonesian social media observer recently posted on Twitter that one of Indonesia’s largest online media houses had lost one million readers within a month and the hemorrhage was continuing. There is little way to know if this...