@Teucer Same, but at least they’re not powered up, like all the other useless data (photos and documents) that are consuming energy every second just to exist in the cloud, but will never be used again. 😕
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@iamdavidobrien @gerrymcgovern
I have. I actually met Gerry at UXLx in Lisbon many years back, when he was still very much focused on Top Tasks. I do follow him here and am tuned in to his efforts in climate crisis awareness.
Hi Gerry 👋
I make a lot of short explainer videos with myself doing the voiceover. Sometimes – after the video has been reviewed – clients will ask me to just replace a sentence here and there. “Can’t you just re-read that part?”
The thing is, the pitches of our voices change during the day and from day-to-day. This depends on stress levels, how “warmed up” the vocal cords are, what you eat or drink, or even how a chair may make you sit up straighter. All these things have an effect on the parts of the body that tighten and loosen the openings that air goes through to make your voice.
It’s evident when bits of voiceover have been replaced and that sudden change in pitch can make people lose focus and detract from your message.
This is why I spend more time getting the script right and having clients listen to readings before I finalise the video. Changing video takes longer than one might imagine, and especially voiceovers.
What the world needs is more content. In fact, you should be able to produce video at the speed of light and release at least one compilation per day. You should be writing blog posts by the bucket each week.
For some reason this appears to be the vision that great minds have set out to pursue. More content. Because there is just too little of it?
I don't remember asking, or even wishing, that there was more text and multimedia content. That I kept running out of it. Wondering if I could please have some more.
But here we are. In the future.
Let's generate more content. Apparently it's the epitome of innovation. So says the news.
Which of course will soon be generated in a never-ending stream of consciousness.
Because it's possible.
Perhaps not because it's desired…
My audio recording and editing software is named Hindenburg and every time I open it my mind visualises a huge burning zeppelin. In black-and-white. You know the clip.
Every time.
It’s good software, but wow do I wish they changed their name.
@aronambrosiani Tack. Otroligt nog upplever en inte obetydande del människor jag pratar med detta som kontroversiellt. Att det skulle vara att blanda in politik i språkbruk och att det är att ta det för långt att språk kan skada på det sättet. Som om språk någonsin varit neutralt…
Nåväl, jag måste också ta åt mig av de som uppskattar tankegångarna 😊
Was talking to @beantin about the “amazing” feat where ChatGPT passed the bar exam. We agreed that if you feed all the relevant content for the bar exam into ChatGPT there really should be no big surprise about it being able to spew out statistically relevant content.
The fact that it still got such a relatively low score should be a cause for worry, not celebration(!) It’s evidence that the tool has no understanding of what it is doing. It has the answers, it’s just not able to use them in the right way. It’s like a student sitting with a textbook with all the answers to the test and not being able to understand which answer fits where.
As Paris Marx wrote in March:
"it’s so funny to me that the AI people think it’s impressive when their programs pass a test after being trained on all the answers”
@aronambrosiani Definitivt en kandidat, men jag känner personligen att vilseledande blir för lättsamt. Med dessa designmönster menas ju ofta sådant som får mig att omedvetet ta beslut helt mot mina egna önskemål eller preferenser. Vilseledande reklam ljuger väl mest tänker jag spontant. Men ska fundera några varv till innan jag låser mig vid en ståndpunkt. 😁
We need to differentiate between tech tools that I choose and control, and tools that someone else chooses and that control me.
I feel like there is matrix to be designed here…
@jepdee Haha, lovely, thank you!!
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/
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/