Bluesky will trap academics in the same way Twitter/X did Commercial platforms and social media companies are designed to maximise switching costs in order to retain users. Reflecting on the rise of Bluesky, Mark Carrigan warns the same market dynamics co…

👀ICYMI: @drmarkcarrigan.bsky.social warns the same switching costs that kept academics on Twitter/X could develop on Bluesky.

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An Israeli social media trend shows people prank-calling family members, pretending to seek donations for Palestinian children, to mock their suffering in Gaza.

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Theories I’ve seen for why Musk etc are cutting federal jobs so randomly & irresponsibly are mostly (a) to replace jobs with AI, (b) to force privatization by breaking everything, or (c) sheer ignorance/incompetence. I suspect a mix of all 3, but the disregard for lives in the meantime is sickening.

No country is immune to the far right.

No country is immune to the normalization of the far right.

Mientras más conocemos sobre IA menos nos gusta.

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What is unique about our new dashboard for tracking media labelled as misleading or manipulated on X is its ability to display Community Notes that haven't yet met the criteria and are not visible to the public on the platform. cn.deepfakestracker.org

A few weeks ago @emollick.bsky.social hyped this alleged study showing positive impact of AI in Nigerian education. Mercifully @ddmeyer.bsky.social has dug into what's really happening so I don't have to, and unsurprisingly, it's a crock. We need to do better. open.substack.com/pub/danmeyer...

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Este debate es complejo y de discusión polarizante, pero este es un buen artículo: "En lugar de afrontar la variedad de efectos de todo este cambio social, económico y tecnológico, Haidt nos ofrece un sentido estrecho y disecado de lo social".

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Si con la foto de la toma de posesión de Trump, donde los señoros billonarios de las Big Tech fueron colocados por delante del equipo de gobierno, nuestra clase política no entiende porque defendemos la necesidad de una #DigitalizaciónDemocrática, apaga y vámonos.

La táctica es inundar de tonteras para poder hacer las maldades.

Deeply creepy move on the part of Meta. The vibes are horrible. Like something out of a horror movie, and especially with a side of actual POC, or queer folks, or queer POC getting replaced by bots that are presumably supposed to puppet identities in stereotyped/stereotyping or superficial way.

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Meta is testing, or has started to ship, its AI generated profiles, here on Instagram

www.instagram.com/himamaliv

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I don't want my fridge to have a camera or Wi-Fi. I don't want my dishwasher to be smart. I don't want my washing machine to text me.

In fact, I kinda miss knobs and dials and knowing big appliances would last 20 years and could still be repaired.

Pivoting to video, then metaverse, then AI destroyed more trust than they’ve created but I’m not a billionaire capitulating to the dumbest fucking authoritarians history has ever seen.

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A consensus is emerging: Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. Where is the action? | Nesrine Malik It may feel hopeless to see supportive states continue to back Israel, but bearing witness matters for future reckoning, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

“It simply becomes accepted that rights are not bestowed by humanity, but by the parties who decide who is human… If they must die, let it be a crime.”

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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The left panel reads "What AI companies want you to think AI is". Next to a smiley face it says "User says draw me a tree or write me an essay" Next to a computer it says "Intelligent computer thinks and provides answers" Next to a picture of a tree and an essay it says "Computer gives the things the user asked for" The second panel on the right is titled "What AI actually is" Next to a picture of a tree and an essay it says "Stolen materials like artwork, videos, music, games, books, journals are copied into a big database". Next to a picture of a smiley face it says "user says draw me a tree or write me an essay" Next to a picture of a computer it says "A bulky computer program wastes an extraordinary amount of energy creating an average of the stolen material from the database" Next to a slightly discolored pictured of the original tree and a scribbly version of the essay it says "Computer gives the user an average of the stolen material which may closely resemble the original with some changes."

I made a couple of explainer images about AI you can send to the old people in your family. Ask them to write letters to their MPs telling them to stop rolling out the red carpet for these grifters.

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📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't.

@smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇
nature.com/articles/s41...

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