Torque Social Hour: A Conversation About AI, WordPress, and Ethics

The Torque Social Hour is a weekly livestream of WordPress news and events. In this episode we talk with Nyasha Green, an Editorial Director at MasterWP, and Chris Wiegman, a Manager of Engineering at WP Engine, about the pros and cons of AI. We talk about about some WordPress plugins that are powered by AI, as well as a few recent lawsuits in the space. It was a lively conversation with a lot of great comments in the chat.

Here’s a list of topics mentioned during the show:

• CodeWP
• Imajinn
• Bertha.AI
• AI plugins in the WordPress repository
• The Stable Diffusion Lawsuit
• An anonymous response to the SD lawsuit
• How being used as an AI training set has affected Ben Moran’s career as an artist
• Getty Images is suing Stable Diffusion too
• The ethical and legal challenges of using GitHub’s Copilot
• CNET is using AI to write articles without any fact checking
• Deepfaked Tom Cruise
• Press The Issue: AI and Open Source episode