In a world where the rapid advance of open-source generative AI is leading to a tidal wave of near-zero-cost BS flooding every text, image and video channel, eliminating account verification is a massive, historical mistake.

Will at least be fun to watch. 90% of mass media stories about AI safety are focused on a handful of big companies and the possibility of making LLMs say disagreeable things. There has been very little attention paid to the dark corners where groups are running models locally to cause actual harm.

Now that Twitter is censoring users on behalf of the Modi government in India, I'm reupping this October prediction that Musk's international entanglements would be the Achilles heel of Twitter.

Twitter should release all communications with governments regarding censorship.

https://twitter.com/alexstamos/status/1586070566221402113

Here is a conversation with @evelyndouek on what happened this week, and how this is a major departure from the unwritten policy of major US platforms to resist censorship requests that strike directly at core political freedoms.

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Musk fired the lawyer responsible for telling him what happens if Weiss or Taibbi click that button.

https://twitter.com/abgutman/status/1601037060864811009

Hopefully that button doesn’t actually work for them; Twitter has put a lot of work into internal access controls. If those two have been provisioned DM access, I expect that’s, at a minimum, an FTC reportable security incident.

Let's steelman @elonmusk's concern about political influence on the content decisions of major platforms. and come up with practical steps Musk could take to set a new standard:

1) Commit to releasing all communications by global political actors related to content moderation. This would include all communications with government affairs teams, official requests from "internet referral units" such as those run by the EU and Israel, and out-of-band comms with executives such as Musk himself. You would want to include governments, parties and candidates.

This thread confirms what I knew! Excellent!

Twitter's reaction to 2016 included policies for both on-platform trolling and hack-and-leak. The latter lead to a big overreach that had nothing to do with the deep state or @EI_Partnership. A bunch of execs, of course, argued.

https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1598822959866683394

And... that's it.

It's clearly not Twitter's responsibility to prevent the US media from publishing hacked, faked or stolen information. Had a great conversation on how platform's shouldn't overreach beyond their borders with the @TWiT team this week: