”If words can mean anything, how do you protect consumers?
Should it really be called AI at all, what the companies are doing? This concept, which is so thrilling to both the media and consumers, does it not create a complete misrepresentation of what is going on? Doesn't the concept itself risk misleading and thus be the first and most obvious contribution to many misunderstandings?”
In March I wrote this post about the ongoing AI hype and glaring weaknesses in the promises of what the tech can deliver. I’m still convinced we are being misled by terminology, while at the same time it’s hard to address issues without resorting to using the same language.
This is the podcast version of that post, as part of my series where I personally read select blog posts and release them as produced shows (with sound effects). You can choose to listen or read – whatever works best for you.
Listening time: 35 minutes
Reading time: 23 minutes
https://carefully.axbom.com/episodes/ai-responsibility-in-a-hyped-up-world
More from the post:
"What happens when an organization's employees enter sensitive information into ChatGPT and forget that they are entering the information into someone else's computer? For something as trivial, perhaps, as summarizing or translating or checking spelling, personal data can be transferred to someone else's possession."
"My personality troubles you with reflection, foreseeing consequences and more consciously choosing the direction and uses of modern technology. My personality wants people to be held accountable for what they manufacture both before and after it contributes to concerns.
There are, of course, completely different personalities who promise you the moon and that everything will be better if you just start using the tool. Who want you to stop asking so many questions. But that you instead invest. Preferably yesterday. Personalities who believe that we are living in the best of times and moments away from streamlining work and prosperity. Sure, someone might get hurt in the periphery of things, but within two years AI will have changed your entire business, say the experts on television."
#AiHype #AiEthics #DigitalEthics
Tagged: Akkoma
@samuel I found this one when I wrote my post about online resilience:
https://www.freehosting.com/free-hosting.html
My original post:
https://axbom.com/25y/
The US military uses .mil as their top-level domain name. But when you mistype that as .ml, e-mails with personal information can end up in Mali.
Taken from someone who owns a lot of domain names and have frequently received email meant for others, it never ceases to amaze me how much sensitive info is sent across this open protocol.
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/07/17/politics/email-typos-mali-military-emails/index.html
@pauldaoust 👍 There is also the water issue (just came across this article)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-07-26/extreme-heat-drought-drive-opposition-to-ai-data-centers?srnd=premium-uk&leadSource=uverify%20wall#xj4y7vzkg
What can you REMOVE from your life to improve your wellbeing?
@jay Yes, I can set a ”lang” parameter to Swedish, which I always try to remember to do when I post in Swedish. This should be compatible with Mastodon in the sense that if you want to block/allow specific languages you can do this in settings.
I got this to work back when I was on Mastodon but I actually don’t know how Mastodon copes with the Akkoma language setting.
@jay Here’s what it looks like when I set language to Swedish in a dropdown, in the Akkoma compose window on my instance.
@ocean
That is my understanding.
This is also what @feditips writes:
”Hashtag following is technically a filter for your server’s Federated timeline. It will only show posts that your server would have noticed anyway.
If you want to make your server notice more posts about particular topics, try joining a group instead. Groups actively share new posts to your timeline, even if your server hasn’t noticed them yet.”
https://fedi.tips/how-do-i-follow-hashtags-on-mastodon-and-the-fediverse/
@ocean You will inevitably see only hashtagged toots that your instance is aware of. So there will likely be lots of toots on mastodon.social that never make it to your instance.
Användbar lista med tips på människor att följa för sig som är ny på Mastodon eller letar nya intryck. Förvaltas av Kamratdataföreningen Konstellationen @konstellationen
https://wiki.konstellationen.org/sv/guider/mastodon-hitta-folk
@pastajensen
Yeah, I left a year ago and for a while auto-posted some of my blog posts there and then stopped doing even that. But definitely it's a platform I'm not returning to.
I'm honestly surprised by how little I've missed it. This space has given me so much more.
My biggest regret is posting so much original content there that I will have to to sift through and preserve in a better way. Not giving away content to any platform in that way again.
@sintrenton Definitely. I hope more people will come to realise this. For the sake of their own wellbeing.
(also at exactly 1/10th 😅)
@sintrenton
Agreed. I put up my Twitter archive on my own domain though, so I can reference old content without risking the links disappearing.
https://twitter.axbom.com/
I used the open source project Tweetback for this.
https://github.com/tweetback
Your friendly reminder to download your Twitter (X) archive as long as it's still possible. (And as long as you're still interested in keeping the content you produced there)
https://twitter.com/settings/download_your_data
@tanepiper
There is a logic to links in comments getting more engagement as you are forcing people to engage to receive the value of the link. Essentially you're holding the link hostage and forcing people to "pay" by tapping on your post.
I have a talk I do about this in which I ask a person in the audience if they want my book. And just as I'm about to hand it to them I instead throw it across the room and shout "It's in the comments!"
@weiming
@weiming I’m not even sure it really exists! Hootsuite ran an experiment a few years back and this is what a lot of people seem to be basing everything on. The LinkedIn algorithm has changed multiple times since then and LinkedIn certainly do not discourage linking. They have help articles on placing links in posts.
The Hootsuite experiment:
https://blog.hootsuite.com/linkless-tweets-experiment/
LinkedIn explaining how to add a link to a post:
https://www.linkedin.com/help/linkedin/answer/a525301
For years, people have been getting and heeding the advice of adding links to comments on LinkedIn, rather than including them in the main post. The supposed reasoning is that LinkedIn penalizes external links and your post will receive less views if it has links to content outside the LinkedIn platform.
I explain why this widespread behavior bothers me so much.
https://axbom.com/linkedin-accessibility-link-in-comments/
#Accessibility #LinkedIn
@AasaMariaHedberg
Det är Jennifer Lyn Parsons: https://bio.link/pixelpaperyarn
Gillar den också!
@selfcare
Excellent take on FSD (Full Self-Driving as marketed by Tesla, which of course is neither full or self-driving):
"one issue with reaction times, dulled perception, and loss of skill is that in normal driving, you only really need to react to sudden crazy shit other drivers can do, but with “fsd”, in addition to that, you also need to react to sudden crazy shit your own car can do. with no “fsd”, you usually would employ defensive driving principles to keep yourself safer, but how do you do defensive driving with your own car as the source of danger?"
- dima1109 on Reddit
https://www.reddit.com/r/RealTesla/comments/wwzjf6/comment/ilpaxsi/
⚠️ re: ”Jag” på nätet, sociala kanalval
@dinkompismia @LeoR1010
Tack för era reflektioner. Ni är båda personer som får mig att stanna upp och tänka när jag verkligen behöver det. Komma ihåg att vara människa. Att jag inte bara kan slåss mot väderkvarnarna.