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“Twitter’s decline in traffic, app downloads, usage, and civility is troubling, and most data-savvy prognosticators expect Meta’s Threads to overtake them within a few years.”
“Those who do rely on social media are exposed to plenty of fake news: somewhere between 1% and 5% of all news viewed is false or highly misleading. Facebook estimates that the Russian government’s effort to manipulate the presidential election in 2016 involved around 120 pages and 80,000 posts that were, through sharing, seen by roughly 126m Americans, half of the electorate.”
“At the heart of TESCREALism is a techno-utopian vision of the future in which we become a new species of “enhanced” posthumans, colonize space, subjugate nature, plunder the cosmos for its vast resources and build giant computers floating in space to run virtual-reality simulations in which trillions and trillions of “happy” digital beings live. The ultimate aim is to maximize the total amount of “value” in the universe.”
https://www.truthdig.com/articles/before-its-too-late-buddy/
“Personalized learning bots are unlikely to function in a neat streamlined way. That’s because every time they make an API call to a language model for content in response to a student query, they are drawing on vast reserves of information that are very likely polluted by past misinformation or biased and discriminatory material, and possibly may become even more so as automated content floods the web”
https://codeactsineducation.wordpress.com/2023/06/30/degenerative-ai-in-education/
“All these disasters spark talk of a “new normal.” That, too, is a form of denial. What we face is planetary instability and disruption of everyday life as burning carbon loads the climate dice so that it throws six after six. Mark Blyth calls it “a giant non-linear outcome generator with wicked convexities. In plain English, there is no mean, there is no average, there is no return to normal. It’s one-way traffic into the unknown.””
“What happens when the web becomes dominated by so much AI generated content that new models are trained not on human-made material, but on AI outputs? Will we be left with some kind of cursed digital ouroboros eating its own tail?
It’s what Jathan Sadowski has dubbed Habsburg AI, referring to an infamously inbred European royal dynasty.”
“What makes this behavior possible is that LLMs are trained on data from the social web, and thus have in their models the building blocks for how humans talk to one another and behave in various social contexts.”
https://a16z.com/2023/07/19/the-neverending-game-how-ai-will-create-a-new-category-of-games/
“What we’re seeing could be explained as “pass the parcel inflation”. This is the theory that, rather than a red hot economy, inflation is the result of businesses and people trying to pass on higher costs to others, if they can. Bank of England analysis partly confirmed this, finding about 75% of inflation stemmed from people passing on high energy & food prices at the end of 2022.”
“Your teams might be able to hit their deliverables remotely, but they aren’t building up the kind of human capital that leads to longer-term growth.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/07/27/lazy-girl-job-employment-women/