Way more dangerous than a jerk is a billionaire jerk who feels offended. Completely unpredictable with unjustified power and impact.
I'm not afraid of AI (not in the sense the manufacturers would have you be) but I am afraid of the inappropriate power of the billionaires backing their development.
Suppose it's time to write an open letter calling for a pause on giant billionaire experiments.
â ïž Content Warnings
Reposting this, originally posted on my old account last November. As a reminder to myself as well:
I can appreciate content warnings (CWs). A lot. And Iâm not a person who necessarily needs any for my wellbeing.
But I do often avoid opening posts that warn about âuspolâ. That does make me feel better.
There are people who need CWs for their wellbeing. For reasons I do not always understand. And I do not *have* to understand. CWs remind me of that.
Content warnings are like adding a layer of compassion and consent, and I personally can not see a reason to object to that.
And if you truly do not need them, you can disable content warnings in settings under Sensitive Content. There's one setting for sensitive images and another for having post with CWs always expanded.
Imagine that, the compassionate setting is default and you still have control over changing it.
You can do more and actually set all images to hidden.
Quick sidenote: this is a great time to reflect on the best option for your wellbeing, before you change any settings.
@mmitchell_ai Made me spit out my drink... đ
â ïž Twitter covertly removing protections against hate speech
« Earlier this Month, Twitter Covertly Removed Section of Hateful Conduct Policy Protecting Transgender People from Targeted Misgendering and Deadnaming.
GLAAD statement: âTwitterâs decision to covertly roll back its longtime policy is the latest example of just how unsafe the company is for users and advertisers alike.â »
https://www.glaad.org/releases/glaad-responds-twitters-roll-back-long-standing-lgbtq-hate-speech-policy
@autiomaa @laurenshof
Yes, this is outlined in my original blog post đ
https://axbom.com/world-map/
@laurenshof
It is fascinating isn't it? Another wonderful example that we could likely contribute to organisational silos:
The team working on Russia is likely not the same team as the one working on Africa. By one way of measuring the figure for Africa is correct (for the land mass continent straight across at the longest point). And for another way of measuring Russia it is correct (if you go across all bodies of water, including ocean and allow for a slanted measurement than a strictly horizontal one.) Both can be verified in their own way (almost) but there appears to be no standard for these types of measurements,
The interesting thing about the community notes though is that they did not set out to measure the lines in the image, they just went after answers in text and made an assumption. I can see how this is appealing... and likely also feels obviously correct because of the Mercator distortion.
But yes, I do wonder about the 9,000km figure for Russia and how that really got approved for Britannica.
Great way of illustrating how one distortion sticks and then the distortion supports further false assumptions. The high status of Britannica ensures that many simply won't believe the truth...
So Twitter now has Community Notes that are used to fact check other tweets. A person used my blog post about the world map to demonstrate how a longer line across Russia represents a distance that is actually shorter than a visibly shorter line across Africa.
In the Community Notes attached to that tweet it is stated that this is false, along with numbers of country/continent width that themselves are incorrect. But the original post actually isn't false. So the tool (Community Notes) designed to provide more trust is actually "debunking" actual truths and instead spreading the misinformation. And of course, Africa is as always a target of reduction.
Here ScafidiTravels shows how the original tweet is correct. Due diligence:
https://twitter.com/ScafidiTravels/status/1647463005024649217?s=20
I've now added all these details about the Russia-Africa controversy (regarding distance across East-West) to the blog post.
Direct link to the referenced section: https://axbom.com/world-map/#rudebate
@Loukas @Mabande
Gah vad frustrerande. Och det finns ju dessutom ett till konsumentperspektiv: sÀkerhet. Hur svÄrt kan det vara nÀr man till och med i flygblad gÄr ut och talar om exakt vad problemen Àr:
* ResenÀrer med funktionsnedsÀttning kan inte resa spontant eftersom rampservice nu mÄste förbokas.
⹠ResenÀrer klÀms i dörrarna eftersom kamerabilderna Àr dÄliga.
⹠Förseningarna ökar markant nÀr föraren ska ÄtgÀrda alla störningar sjÀlv, eller vÀnta pÄ att assisterande personal kommer Äkande i bil.
⹠Ingen hjÀlp finns att fÄ ombord, och trafikinformationen vid störningar uteblir helt nÀr föraren har annat att prioritera.
Bara att lĂ€sa upp för lyssnarna! LĂ€gger in dem hĂ€r för alla andra som lĂ€ser i trĂ„den. đ
https://vildstrejkpendeln.blogg.se/2023/april/flygblad.html
I'm just so tired of people reposting prompts and responses from ChatGPT as if they're showing off something novel. "Hey look at this profound synthetic text!" Can we fast forward through this maddening point in time please. I'm not coping well.
@lukaisunlucky
You can get an overview in @annaleen 's thread I think:
https://wandering.shop/@annaleen/110199740713221658
One concept I likely will be adding to The Elements of Digital Ethics is âLinguistic Misdirectionâ. Very much inspired by @emilymbender âs objections to the use of AI.
Do listen to this episode of Tech Wonât Save Us, where Bender and Marx towards the end get into âhow the tech industry uses language to trick us into buying its narratives about technologyâ: https://techwontsave.us/episode/163_chatgpt_is_not_intelligent_w_emily_m_bender
âWishful Mnemonicâ is the term Bender uses in the show. Coined by Drew McDermott in 1976.
She gives the example of Automatic Speech Recognition (falsely attributes cognition) which should just be Automatic Transcription.
Some other examples of terms that may give an impression of something going on that really isnât:
- Cognitive Computing
- Machine Learning
- Neural Network
Would love to hear some more examples of misleading terminology in the tech space in general, if youâve got them. âCloudâ, âSmartâ and âAutonomousâ would absolutely qualify.
#AIHype #DigitalEthics #DoubleSpeak #NewSpeak #WishfulMnemonic
@jtrem
Here is a guide by @jamesmontemagno on how to accomplish this with IFTTT and Mastodon:
https://montemagno.com/automate-posting-to-mastodon-via-web-requests/amp/
I know I've seen other services that can be set up to do this as well.
#RSS2AP
Given all the controversy around Substack (again) I just want to promote the idea of self-hosting your own blog/newsletter using Ghost.
This allows you to set up your newsletter very much in the same way as Substack, with different tiers and a connection to Stripe. And itâs all yours, on your own domain, and without having to associate with bad actors.
While I myself donât do paid tiers (I want all my content available openly), I have shared my way of setting up a VPS running Ghost within this blog post:
https://axbom.com/indieweb/
If I gauge enough interest Iâm considering writing a post about only running a Substack alternative using Ghost..
#Indieweb #Substack
If a VPS is not your thing, and you want a really cheap option for just running a Ghost blog/newsletter with the possibility of paid subscription tiers, FastComet is the only hosting provider I know of that gives you a 1-click install of Ghost on a shared hosting solution.
Honestly, to get started in a day with a Ghost setup to replace Substack or any other newsletter/blog solutions I believe this could be the killer app. This currently starts at $2.19 per month.
https://www.fastcomet.com/ghost-hosting
#Indieweb #Substack
@Scmbradley
Inside Out, definitely.
So there is this film category, psychological thriller, that is supposedly different from just a thriller. But wouldnât this suggest that we should also have psychological comedies and psychological romance films?
Anyway, that was my absurdist thought for the night. Wishing everyone a pleasant weekend.
Finally a well-versed walkthrough of how ChatGPT works that more people can take to heart. No we are not even close to something that "understands" our input. And maybe, just maybe, we can stop calling these things AI. But I won't hold my breath.
https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/what-kind-of-mind-does-chatgpt-have
#AIHype #DigitalEthics
Writing this book has been on my mind for two years now. By breaking it down into ~42 blog posts I think I can get it done in a reasonable amount of time.
Just getting started and will be scouting for publishers. Any words of advice are welcome.
Telling you all this so you can hold me accountable over the next 7 months. My goal is to finish writing by the end of the year. đ
https://debook.axbom.com
#DigitalEthics #AIHype #ResponsibleInnovation
If you're curious about the content you can read a blog post of mine from March 2021 that covers all the elements (though a couple will be added for the book):
https://axbom.com/elements/
@daniel Haha đ
@dailygrail Haha, that would have been something.
@Homebrewandhacking @Mabande
We also must not forget her portrayal of Albert Nobbs.
https://slate.com/culture/2012/01/albert-nobbs-glenn-close-plays-a-woman-playing-a-man.html