Y'all, this article by Owen McGrann is so good that I am struggling not to quote the entire thing like one of those weird youtubers that stands in the corner of someone else's video and points. (Such an odd ouroboros.)

His philosophical points are well grounded, exquisitely argued, and provide that pleasurable tingle of neurons firing.

His premise is that akin to what #AI #slop has done to the internet, i.e. #deadInternet theory, they are poised to do to the #economy if we don't stop them. #DeadEconomy Theory, he names it.

Quote: #Longtermism, the philosophical engine of AI acceleration, whether its proponents acknowledge it or not, is warmed-over Parfit without the rigor. The argument (that we should optimize for the welfare of trillions of hypothetical future beings, and that present-day costs are acceptable in service of that goal) is a framework any competent ethicist can dismantle in an afternoon.

https://www.owenmcgrann.com/p/the-dead-economy-theory

~Theme to the X-Files plays~

#deadinternettheory #deadinternet #robot #bot #bots #internet #classicalconditioning #bfskinner #twitter #screenshot #socialmedia #influencer #influencers #ghost #ghosts #spooky #weird

The Feed Is Fake

"Joe Lim estimates that 90 percent of what you see on the internet is advertising in disguise [...]For three years, Lim ran a company called Floodify, which at its peak operated 65,000 [...] On a typical day, he says, Floodify posted 50,000 videos across TikTok, Instagram, YouTube, and X, all of them designed to pass for the unscripted output of ordinary users."

Archive link for NYMag/Vulture article

https://archive.md/OreAF
#socialmedia #longreads #deadinternet

Il ne faudrait plus lire ce genre d'info comme autrefois, en temps de récession : ces emplois ne seront peut-être pas remplacés, et rien ne semble indiquer qu'ils le seront un jour.
Donc 100 Mds d'investissement aujourd'hui, peut-être 0 demain, voir après hier, la transition est brutale, et trop rapide, sans plan d'action clair.... Dans tous les cas, cela n'invite pas au partage #deadinternet

#emploi #IA #gouvernance

https://www.boursorama.com/bourse/actualites-amp/gm-va-supprimer-certains-postes-dans-le-secteur-technologique-selon-bloomberg-news-5fe6b5b6f8073d7674a3914ef064828b