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That is a good starting point. Thanks Alastair!
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I’ve underestimated how much people want – nay, need – to believe the nonsensical.
If a person appears to be more productive using an automated tool, but psychologically feels worse and is more downhearted, what has the world gained?
What studies are looking at human wellbeing rather than corporate wellbeing?
«Therapy is high-stakes, […] harm can come to a patient through a chatbot’s “misdiagnosis or failing to catch suicidal ideation. Unfortunately, this is precisely the behavior we found in various commercially-available therapy bots used by millions.”»
www.sfgate.com/tech/article...
One of ChatGPT's popular uses just got skewered by Stanford researchers
Newton describes this as if he makes quite a number of factual errors. Go figure.
@kvanaren.bsky.social: am i having a stroke
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When topics of discourse prove difficult to approach, stories can help us on our way. This famed short story about a graceful city with an unexpected abberation helps me reflect on where I want to apply my capacity for writing, sketching and teaching.
axbom.com/omelas/
#DigitalEthics
2010s: "Haha, autocomplete is so bad. It can create some serious miscommunication."
2020s: "Damn I have an important life decision to make. My best option is probably to ask autocomplete."
Design for universal wellbeing.
Why I avoid the term human-centric and what I mean by universal wellbeing.
axbom.com/design-for-u...
Regarding the idea that human brains are just probability distribution machines ("The Bayesian Brain"): rahnevlab.gatech.edu/documents/pa...
https://rahnevlab.gatech.edu/documents/papers/Rahnev(2019)BBS.pdf
Thank you for this breath of fresh air, Allison. For a moment I feel like the world is making sense again – media seeing the grifters for what they are, asking the relevant questions.
@amorrow.bsky.social: If the CEO of a soda company declared that soda-making technology is getting so good it’s going to ruin the global economy, you’d be forgiven for thinking that person is either lying or fully detached from reality... www.cnn.com/2025/05/30/b...
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Using AI to encompass and conflate everything that uses an algorithm (or at best: machine learning) is truly not helpful and media needs to stop it.
Many people will definitely think this is related to ChatGPT, when it's COMPLETELY different.
@julietemckenna.bsky.social: AI applying a specialist algorithm to a selected dataset, designed for a specific, technical purpose, with the results validated and the system refined by human experts. Doesn't require the wholesale theft of creators' copyright intellectual property at any stage. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Bouillabaise is not only a delicious sauce, it also carries the meaning of "A confused mixture of disparate elements." Or as the French say: "Mélange confus d’éléments disparates."
Which makes it a wonderful metaphor in chatbot contexts.
www.nytimes.com/2023/05/27/n...
Hence it's apt to call the White House Health Report a bouillabAIse document.
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Jag gillar särskilt beskrivningen av hur det kunde ha fortlöpt, om man hade koll på läget, som ett pedagogiskt exempel. Fler behöver förstå vad det innebär att ta ansvar och sköta arbetet på ett förtroendeingivande sätt.
Men hela texten är jättebra.
Posts that barely get noticed on Bluesky can get upwards of 400 boosts on Mastodon, or many more. This has happened to me dozens of times now. It's fascinating. And I certainly understand where my confreres hang out.
(I'm really on Akkoma but that is a nerdy detail.)
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It's like they were asking, "how can we make this tech even more detrimental to the environment?"
And with environment I mean both nature and social spaces.
I identified with that famed XKCD cartoon for too long. Drawing a new panel myself made it easier to manifest another way of being.
You know a country is car-centric when everyone starts their company in a garage.