I felt this needed a reminder.
Swedish version of the elements will be published tomorrow.
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Haven't made one of my Wild Exploits cartoons in months... but here goes.
This one I call "Acccountability Outsourcing" based on one of the elements in my chart The Elements of AI Ethics.
#DigitalEthics #AIEthics #WildExploits
”Vad jag framför allt fastnar för är att intervjuade chefer i äldreomsorgen enligt undersökningen felbedömer vilka effekter den digitala lösningen har. Man överskattar (fortfarande enligt undersökningen) både hur mycket pengar som kan sparas och hur kvaliteten i vården kan öka. Resultatet tycks snarare vara att kvaliteten är oförändrad och kostnaderna t.o.m. ökar.”
I was looking through a list of superhero jokes and this one caught my eye:
"Which is Thor’s favorite day of the week?"
"Thors-day, of course!"
It's funny to me because it would appear the inventor of the joke and the people who repeat it aren't aware that Thursday literally is Thor's Day.
Thursday comes from Old English thursdæg, which is from early Norse thōrsdagr, literally "day of Thor".
Skulle du ha klickat? Phishing-mejl blir allt bättre.
I det här fallet försöker man lura av mig kortuppgifter med ett mejl om en betalning som inte gått igenom hos Loopia. Jag är kund hos Loopia. Men jag har bra koll på mina kort, och jag vet att det inte löpt ut som det här mejlet påstår. Fakturanumret som används i mejlet har samma format som Loopias fakturanummer – det är inte ett nummer som motsvarar en faktura jag fått - men det är såklart inget jag håller i huvudet.
Trots min erfarenhet kände jag mig ändå inte direkt övertygad om att det var en bluff(!). För jag vill inte riskera att ett domännamn inte förnyas. Jag hade till och med lagt in en påminnelse till mig själv att kolla på det här. Att förlora domännamn är förstås en perfekt rädsla för bedragare att utnyttja.
Eftersom jag är osäker så högerklickar jag på knappen och kopierar länken. Jag klistrar sedan in länken i en text-editor (du kan använda Word om det är enklast för dig). Klistra inte in i en webbläsare för hela poängen är att du inte ska besöka sidan!
När jag klistrar in länken i min text-editor så ser jag direkt att det är en webbadress som inte alls har med Loopia att göra. Då kan jag känna mig trygg med att radera mejlet.
Personligen brukar jag också kolla på den så kallade "header"-informationen i mejlet för att bekräfta att det inte kommer från företagets adress, men det är överkurs. Gör du som jag gjorde med länken här kan du ju få bekräftat att det inte är rätt.
Tipset är att alltså att alltid först dubbelkolla länkar på det här sättet om du känner dig det minsta osäker.
Och rent krasst, undvik ALLTID att initiera inloggningar och betalningar från mejl. Gå direkt till ett företags webbsida via webbläsaren genom att skriva in deras adress. Och stava inte fel. Bedragare registrerar ju gärna adresser som ser nästan ut som de riktiga företagens webbadresser.
Dilemma: Om du vill göra den här kollen på en mobil så måste du hålla ner på länken för att kopiera, och då öppnas ofta sidan i bakgrunden(!) Det är onödigt, och kan ge bedragaren en signal om att du aktiverat deras länk. Vänta alltså med att göra kollen på en desktop-dator (högerklicka och "kopiera länk").
Känner du dig fortfarande osäker bör du självklart kontakta företaget som anges som avsändare. Men INTE genom att svara på mejlet. Använd kontaktuppgifterna på deras hemsida, där det också ofta finns möjlighet att chatta med kundsupport. Du kan ju så klart också logga in på tjänsten (om det är ett företag där du har konto) och se där om du får liknande meddelande.
Och om du råkar göra fel, eller blir lurad: kom ihåg att det aldrig är ditt eget fel. Bedragarna är skickliga och lyckas när du är som mest sårbar. Och tyvärr är det ju så att man måste vara misstänksam mot ALLA mejl – och det kan vara energikrävande.
P.S. Bli inte heller lurad av att övriga länkar i mejlet kanske faktiskt går till företagets hemsida. Så gör bedragaren för att inge förtroende.
#TeknikTrygg
If you have a newsletter attached to your service, you would increase the likelihood of me signing up if you allowed me to specify a separate email address for it.
I still quite like newsletters. But I don't like them in my default inbox. My inbox is reserved for things I should act on, and the less time I spend moving irrelevant stuff out of there the better.
I use a service called Feedbin for all my newsletters and RSS feeds. I get a unique email address and I go to the website or app to read newsletters when it suits me, not when I'm interrupted. I wrote about this service, and some alternatives, a while back:
https://axbom.com/newsletters-the-mindful-way/
p.s. Yes I know I can create inbox rules, but that puts effort on me. And still expects me to use my default address for everything, which makes tracking easier.
If you have a newsletter attached to your service, you would increase the likelihood of me signing up if you allowed me to specify a separate email address for it.
I still quite like newsletters. But I don't like them in my default inbox. My inbox is reserved for things I should act on, and the less time I spend moving irrelevant stuff out of there the better.
I use a service called Feedbin for all my newsletters and RSS feeds. I get a unique email address and I go to the website or app to read newsletters when it suits me, not when I'm interrupted. I wrote about this service, and some alternatives, a while back here:
https://axbom.com/newsletters-the-mindful-way/
p.s. Yes I know I can create inbox rules, but that puts effort on me. And still expects me to use my default address for everything, which makes tracking easier.
#email #newsletters
@elbowspeak Thank you )oshua.
I am very on board with this thinking. How does it make you feel?
It's important to consider how your use of emojis affects people using screen readers.
Paus? Beviljas!
@Mabande
That one I hadn't read, though I read several similar ones in 2017. Thank you for sharing. It's hard to read but necessary. They are sharing their story with a hope for change to happen... and it's so difficult to fathom how long change takes.
I'm imagining a catch 22 wherein people aren't able to even read about it and hence it falls into invisibility and the trauma continues...
⚠️ Mentions of trauma and violence
In The Elements of AI Ethics I talk about content moderator trauma. But I don't think people tend to reflect on just how massive the trauma is. This recent ruling in Kenya gives some insights.
From reporting in The Guardian:
“I’ve seen stuff that you’ve never seen, and I’d never wish for you to see,” Frank Mugisha, 33, a moderator from Uganda told the Guardian.
"Many said that they didn’t have full knowledge of what they were signing up for when they took the job. Some alleged they were led to believe they were taking customer service roles, only to end up sifting through gruesome content under tight timelines."
“It alters the way you think and react to things,” said Mugisha. “We may be able to find other jobs, but would we be able to keep them? I don’t know. We don’t interact normally any more.”
“I remember my first experience witnessing manslaughter on a live video … I unconsciously stood up and screamed. For a minute, I almost forgot where I was and who I was. Everything went blank,” read one of the written testimonies.
When we talk about the benefits of social media and AI we also need to talk about harm. The question not being asked and discussed often enough is this one: To gain these benefits, how much suffering are we willing to ignore?
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2023/jun/07/a-watershed-meta-ordered-to-offer-mental-health-care-to-moderators-in-kenya
#AIEthics #DigitalEthics
In The Elements of AI Ethics I talk about content moderator trauma. But I don't think people tend to reflect on just how massive the trauma is. This recent ruling in Kenya gives some insights.
From reporting in The Guardian:
“I’ve seen stuff that you’ve never seen, and I’d never wish for you to see,” Frank Mugisha, 33, a moderator from Uganda told the Guardian.
"Many said that they didn’t have full knowledge of what they were signing up for when they took the job. Some alleged they were led to believe they were taking customer service roles, only to end up sifting through gruesome content under tight timelines."
“It alters the way you think and react to things,” said Mugisha. “We may be able to find other jobs, but would we be able to keep them? I don’t know. We don’t interact normally any more.”
“I remember my first experience witnessing manslaughter on a live video … I unconsciously stood up and screamed. For a minute, I almost forgot where I was and who I was. Everything went blank,” read one of the written testimonies.
When we talk about the benefits of social media and AI we also need to talk about harm. The question not being asked and discussed often enough is this one: To gain these benefits, how much suffering are we willing to ignore?
#AIEthics #DigitalEthics
@arpcomics
Agree. My worries are primarily about the klout that the person has and how they are influencing a younger generation who look up to them (and learn from them).
My worries may be misplaced as it's not unlikely that the younger generation can see right through this.
There's this "UX pioneer" who is so obsessed with IQ it's quite alarming and making me upset. Don't know if to call it out or move along. From his latest comment about ChatGPT:
"The backend is so useful that it overcomes the bad UI for high-IQ users, but I am convinced we'll see better design soon, which will be useful for broader segments of the population."
FFS.
In a sense I have called it out before as it's a big part of a job ad that I criticised in a blog post (that this person is likely to at least have coauthored):
https://axbom.com/nng-job-posting/
Oh, and of course I accidentally read his latest post talking about whether metaverse or AI is better...
"How could Mark Zuckerberg make such a blunder? All reports indicate he has a high IQ and a solid technical background. Likely below Bill Gates on both accounts, but having a lower IQ than Bill is no shame (I’m pretty sure I belong to the IQ<billg club myself)."
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/ai-vs-metaverse-which-5th-generation-ui-jakob-nielsen/
I wrote this free e-book 10 years ago about the AceAwe experience model and my approach to UX design. 46 pages.
I just re-read it and I believe it still is valid and works well, though I may have chosen different illustrative examples had I written it today.
Honestly I think I will try and get back to using this model more in everyday work. As I wrote in the book, it works great as a thinking tool for everything from a big web project down to writing a blog post.
https://axbom.com/aceawe/
#UXDesign
Remember when Zuckerberg bet a boatload of money on the metaverse as the next big thing and even changed the Facebook parent company name to Meta?
You should, because that was less than 2 years ago.
Anyway, it’s a good reminder for checking out all the expert predictions for how hybrid work would be completely reinvented by 2024.
Anybody here ”commuting” into work through their headset yet?
In one timeline I imagine future alien archeologists concluding that the human race built a technology to save itself from environmental collapse but the thing they built turned out to be lighter fluid.
"a single chat with ChatGPT could cost up to 1,000 times as much as a simple Google search"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/05/chatgpt-hidden-cost-gpu-compute/
#AIEthics
@kolombiken Oh wow, that one was new to me.