Predictive data is not new. They act like this is some horrible dystopia. It's not new. AT all. More comprehensive now but not new. Also it's far less comprehensive than they're making it seem
Reminder that the FB guy hasn't worked on FB in 10 years and his "dial up monetization" stuff makes zero sese
SO ASININE re things showing people manipulating a single person's data. YES WE HAVE ALL THESE MODELS SO WE CAN HAVE TWO INDIVIDUALS BEHIND A SCREEN MAKING HIM LIKE HIS FRIEND'S PHOTOS MUAHAHAHA
These reenactments are so cringe. SHOUTOUT TO WHOEVER MY 2 SALARIED SOCIAL MEDIA GUARDIAN ANGELS WATCHING OVER ME ARE
THATS NOT WHAT GROWTH HACKING MEANS. It's just like life-hacking - finding new and better ways to grow companies. It can deal with more $ but other efficiency too
AB testing is like super old. Yeah they can do more now but AB testing is not evil. I AB test emails. If you're not AB testing shit you're an idiot
No, this is not like "stimulating nerve cells on a spider" or "like a prison experiment" you FUCKING hack
Reenacting families flipping out over a phone being locked away in a container is and breaking it open is not facts, it's some weird ass reenactment shit
Social media is literally 3 people in a glowing room forcing you to like your friends' pictures, yes
I love "social media knows everything about you and controls you" mixed with "Google search results change based on your location alone." If true, then their data use is hardly groundbreaking
Yes conspiracy theories never spread before social media.
"how do you wake up from the matrix when you don't know you're in the matrix"
very serious documentary here
They're saying companies are working as de facto govts when they regulate themselves... he's not talking about regulation, but the free market. You can argue for regulation but you probably shouldn't if you don't understand that lack of regs =/= government oh my gosh
why do they need a scene w the boy meeting his older self. This is fucking nuts
MY LATEST in my series on why age verification legislation can't work:
Age-verification laws don’t exempt VPN traffic. But that traffic can’t always be detected.
It's an *impossible* task once you consider VPNs.
Wrote this one with @RSI @CanyonBrimhall!rstreet.org/commentary/age…
One issue that has not been examined closely yet is how these laws would impact virtual private networks (VPNs). We interviewed various stakeholders around VPNs including VPN blockers, a cybersecurity scholar and a partner at a digital media firm
Obviously, age-verification laws would force platforms to identify the age of their users in each specific area—Utah’s laws apply to residents in Utah, Arkansas’ laws apply to residents in Arkansas, U.S. law would apply to U.S. residents, and so on.
I'm genuinely furious. Open AI is at the top now. I love their tech. Now they're lobbying for licensing which will effectively halt new innovation except from... them. Or other top firms. This is atrocious, blatant rent seeking. I study licensing and I work on tech policy /1
And this is a horrible marriage of the worst of both. Licensing is a massive barrier to entry that stops new entrants. Sam knows this. He knows EXACTLY what he's saying.
AI is already being used to treat and detect cancer more effectively. It has endless incredible applications, most of which haven't even been thought of yet. This is blatant anticompetitiveness and atrocious behavior from people who could have pushed for more innovation
This is fucking asinine and all this will do will limit ... tech development to the wealthy. This is a terrible idea, it's protectionist, and it's worth condemnation
This is a REALLY good article on a subject I'm really interested in: Trying to find the line between agreeing to govt demands/censorship and allowing people of a country more freedom through tech. There IS a line and some give is worth it, but where and how much is hard to say /1
Like this statement from the Midjourney CEO nails that he's thinking about it (even if he gets it wrong)
“Political satire in china is pretty not-okay... the ability for people in China to use this tech is more important than your ability to generate satire.”
"Tech companies’ desire to remain accessible to the Chinese market will surprise no one, but Midjourney goes further than most of its peers. Instead of restricting political expression for the program’s users in China, it restricts such expression for all of its global users."
REALLY? Citing INDIA? They're taking oppressive control of the internet. wired.com/story/indias-g… Whoever tweeted this is clearly not aware of the oppression happening
"The documentary examines Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s alleged role in deadly riots in the West Indian state of Gujarat in 2002, and the government has worked hard to keep Indians from watching it."
"Screenings at universities have been banned; in one case, students said authorities shut off electricity and the internet to stop it being shown, & clips of the documentary itself have been removed from Twitter and YT after the Indian govt cited controversial emergency powers."
"The reality, however, is more nuanced than the governor would have us believe, according to @SarahMCoyne1, a professor of human development and researcher in the field of media impacts on children."
@SarahMCoyne1 “The findings you’re hearing in news media are pretty overblown, whereas most of us who actually study this recognize it’s incredibly complex and the research just isn’t there that [social media] causes this,” she told me recently." @RobertGehrke
"A recent study of students in the Netherlands, for example, found that social media either had no impact on the well-being or a positive impact on 90% of the adolescents, she said."