Lustigt nog används alltjämt begreppet “dark patterns” av personer som arbetar med digital design i Sverige. En metafor på engelska är kanske inte det mest tydliga uttrycket i ett svenskt sammanhang för design som vilseleder och manipulerar. Men ett ytterligare skäl att överge begreppet på svenska är att det faktiskt också övergetts av personen som kom på det från början. När Brignull nyligen släppte sin bok om bedräglig design så heter den Deceptive Patterns och ingenting annat.
https://axbom.se/dark-patterns-svenska/
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The "science of cute”. 🐿️
I tend to question most things I see online. Today was no exception. I was sent images of squirrels supposedly landing on the ground like superheroes after jumping from trees (one fist in the ground and the other arm stretched out behind them).
I really, really wanted to believe this. It’s too cool! But my mind immediately went… are these AI-generated?
As it turns out, this claim has been doing the rounds for years. The pictures are real. The context is not. That’s not a squirrel landing. It’s what a squirrel looks like during the activity of scratching their armpit with their hind leg.
And how do they in fact land? "When in a controlled fall, squirrels will spread their limbs out wide to increase air resistance and hit the ground like a bushy-tailed pancake. This helps spread the force of the impact over a greater area to prevent injury."
https://guloinnature.com/do-squirrels-land-like-superheroes/
@geraldew 👍 Agree wholeheartedly.
@Aakerbeere
Thanks. Firefish is mentioned on the web page :)
There are many services not in the graphic. What do you consider to be good criteria for deciding whether or not a service should be in the visual?
When I designed it, the most important goal was providing an understanding of the diversity of the Fediverse and encouraging further exploration. Mapping the whole Fediverse is a challenge, and I believe would make the graphic more overwhelming, rather than sparking curiosity.
@geraldew Yes, and organisations can be proactive in collecting data from vulnerable/oft-ignored populations for a better understanding of unexplored perspectives.
Context matters, but deciding beforehand that certain people don’t matter is a problem. In my experience this tends to happen (often obliviously) with data collection choices.
@HistoPol Good reflections. As it turns out, on Tuesday I’m attending a course on AI and regulation. It’s aimed at lawyers, but I was welcome. Hoping to make some valuable connections there, as I am also in fact hopeful that more legislative efforts can bring about change a bit quicker.
@HistoPol I believe this is a shift that can only happen with education and when becoming embedded in culture. Takes a lot of time.
Especially when equity gaps increase before they decrease.
My conviction has become to advocate for the idea of love, compassion and care as viable forces for innovation and business. But I have no illusion of making much of a dent within my own lifespan.
When you run a survey you are getting responses from people
- who are made aware of the survey
- who are given access to the survey
- who are willing to respond
- who are able to respond
People who are disenfranchised, living with disabilities, struggling with time, money and/or language/literacy generally will not respond.
Surveys are rarely representative because the time and effort required to make surveys inclusive is not invested.
The effect of surveys is then that people who are made invisible by society are made even more invisible by organisations that often call themselves data-driven.
Because they run surveys.
@flyboy It's a reference to Bostrom's "thought experiment".
https://duttonlaw.ca/the-ai-paperclip-problem-explained/
Another brilliant piece by @pluralistic
« The AI sector is utterly dependent on criti-hype. They are burning tens of billions of dollars on engineering salaries, custom chip fabs, human data annotation, data-center rents, racks and racks of GPUs and ASICs, whole gridsworth of electricity and entire aquifers’ worth of fresh water for cooling.
They are hemorrhaging a river of cash, but that river’s source is an ocean-sized reservoir of even more cash.
To keep that reservoir full, the AI industry needs to convince fresh rounds of “investors” to give them hundreds of billions of dollars on the promise of a multi-trillion-dollar payoff.
That’s where the “AI Safety” story comes in. You know, the tech bros who run around with flashlights under their chins, intoning “ayyyyyy eyeeeee,” and warning us that their plausible sentence generators are only days away from becoming conscious and converting us all into paperclips. »
https://doctorow.medium.com/how-the-writers-guild-sunk-ais-ship-236575979d5c
@kolombiken Verkligen okej! Jättekul att du läser, lyssnar och ger feedback. Tack snälla! 🙏
@andypiper @kubikpixel
Yes, there are likely 50 projects not in this diagram – it was never intended to be a complete mapping and even when I made it there were many projects left out intentionally. Quite a few that are not in the diagram are listed on the web page, though. I’ve added Postmarks and Gath there as well:
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
@furicle I found this, but not the one you refer to. But thank you for referring me to his quotes. Some real nuggets.
"Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something."
https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/65705-progress-isn-t-made-by-early-risers-it-s-made-by-lazy
Sometimes I wonder what would happen if love, rather than efficiency, was the primary driving force of technological advancement.
One of the earliest typewriters was invented by Italian nobleman Pelligrino Turri for Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano when she lost her sight.
Sometimes I wonder if love is actually the only force that makes technology advance, rather than recede, humanity.
https://parisianfields.com/2012/09/30/the-technology-of-compassion/
@JMMaok Haha. Could be. 😅
Moving very fast in the wrong direction is not progress.
Trying to catch up and hold on to something that is moving very fast in the wrong direction doesn't make you "ahead of the game".
Best is to wave gently and wish them good luck. Make yourself comfortable, read a good book. Sooner or later they will come back around and ask how you can be so far ahead. 😁❤️
@DonnaLanclos @shelleyg I just read your “The Future” is Bullshit–talk, Donna, I love it!!
@ShelleyG Thank you for those kind words of encouragement Shelley!
I’m hoping a person who speaks at least English, French and German (or any other combination of the advertised languages) will do a writeup on all the weaknesses (and dangers) inherent in the concept of Spotify's new podcast auto-translation feature. If you see someone writing about this, do share it with me.
#LostInTranslation