Mastodawn

Ah, the 21st-century corporate playbook: Let's let harmful content roam free and then act surprised when outrage boosts our metrics📈😱. Meta and TikTok are probably drafting their "We had no idea" speeches while polishing their engagement trophies🥇🎭.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj9kgxqjwjo #corporateethics #socialmedia #outragecontent #engagementmetrics #digitalresponsibility #HackerNews #ngated

Meta and TikTok let harmful content rise after evidence outrage drove engagement - whistleblowers

Companies allowed more harmful content on user’s feeds, knowing their algorithms ran on outrage, BBC hears.

Eliza Ng Feb 15

Is AI scraping the web a workout in futility? 🤖💪 Balancing AI's hunger for data with a distributed web diet might be the secret! Exploring if ethical AI can make servers breathe easy. 📚💻
https://www.eliza-ng.me/post/twokeyphrasesfr_1/
#DigitalResponsibility

Web's Breaking Point: Navigating AI’s Scraping Storm and the Quest for a Responsible Data Future

The Scraping Conundrum: Balancing AI Progress with Digital Responsibility The relentless scraping of the internet by AI companies has become a hotbed of controversy, highlighting the tension between the booming demand for data to train sophisticated models, and the strain it places on internet infrastructure and the accessibility of online resources. As AI scrapers aggressively scavenge the web, often ignoring traditional digital courtesy signals like robots.txt, they underscore a broader discussion on ethics, economics, and the feasibility of current AI business models.

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Mohd Parid Jaya Feb 10

The Modern Pilate

We have built a digital world that functions like a Roman court.
The Platform acts like Pilate: washing its hands of responsibility, pointing to "Terms of Service" while the chaos ensues.

The Algorithm acts like the Mob: rewarding the loudest, angriest voices.
The Victim is Context.

Read on: https://library.profpeter.my/paper-trails/mastodon-short/the-modern-pilate

#DigitalResponsibility #SocialMediaReform #ContextMatters #StopTheNoise #AlgorithmEthics

Devesh Prabhu Jan 28

PRIVACY IS NOT A POLICY DOCUMENT, IT'S A DAILY BEHAVIOR PROBLEM 🔐 | https://bit.ly/49Zr5wl | Once privacy disappears, trust follows. Sithout trust, no brand, no system, no economy survives. #Privacy #DataProtection #DigitalResponsibility #TrustEconomy #CyberAwareness #LinkedIn

Tim Green Jan 25

Unfiltered AI platforms like Soulfun and Lovechat challenge traditional norms by offering uncensored, adult-oriented interactions, sparking debates on freedom, responsibility, and harms such as non-consensual deepfakes. Society must balance expression with safeguarding consent.
Discover more at https://dev.to/rawveg/consent-cannot-be-optional-1p6c
#HumanInTheLoop #AIethics #ContentModeration #DigitalResponsibility

Consent Cannot Be Optional

The interface is deliberately simple. A chat window, a character selection screen, and a promise that...

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Saksham Agrawal Jan 16

Future-ready citizens need life skills, not just grades.

#EducationReform #LifeSkillsEducation #IndiaEducation #NewsPerspective #FutureCitizens #CivicSense #FinancialLiteracy #DigitalResponsibility #EmpathyMatters #DailyInsight #PolicyDebate #TruthReport #MindsetShift #YouthDevelopment #AwarenessIsPower #SchoolReforms #ThoughtOfTheDay #NationBuilding #BetterIndia #NewsPage

N-gated Hacker News Jan 14

Ah yes, the age-old dilemma: how to save humanity from the perils of #selfies and #TikTok dances 🤳. Apparently, the magic elixir is setting the age limit to 16, because, you know, 15-year-olds are notoriously terrible at using social media responsibly 🙄. Also, remember to enable #JavaScript and cookies—because nothing says "serious proposal" like a broken webpage 🍪.
https://www.afterbabel.com/p/why-every-country-should-set-16 #socialmedia #agelimit #digitalresponsibility #HackerNews #ngated

Why Every Country Should Set 16 (or Higher) as the Minimum Age for Social Media Accounts

Four features of strong age-limit policies for countries ready to follow Australia’s brave lead

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servenomaster Dec 7

The biggest risk with AI isn't evil robots — it's how easy it is to trust it blindly. 😶🌫️

From lawyers to judges, even court decisions have had to be withdrawn because no one double-checked the AI's work.

The danger isn't in cheating — it's in how simple cheating has become. 🧠💻

🔗 Watch the full episode here: https://youtu.be/RxI7My0sZkg

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AIEthics #Technology #Innovation #FutureOfWork #DigitalResponsibility #AIConcerns #PodcastShorts #TechTalk

ConJunction Dec 3

New Essay in »Digital Responsibility: Building Bridges Between Organization Theory and Information Systems« in SBUR

In the wake of a workshop on “Digital Responsibility” at the Annual Meeting of the Association of Professors of Business Administration (VHB) at Leuphana University Lüneburg that brought together scholars and perspectives from organization studies (OS) and information systems (IS), the workshop organizers Hannah Trittin-Ulbrich, Markus Zimmer and Stefanie Habersang edited a curated essay collection to be published in Schmalenbach Journal of Business Research (SBUR).

Together with Elke Schüßler and Maren Gierlich-Joas, I contributed one such essay offering “Interdisciplinary Theoretical Reflections On Digital Responsibility”. It is summarized in the introducation as follows:

Essay 1 situates the first and second fault line in OS and IS scholars ongoing discourses on theory. The authors distinguish three views of theorizing that we can find in both disciplines. They highlight that OT and IS scholars often draw on the same theories, which provides a basis for interdisciplinary research into digital responsibility. Offering a vantage point, they present avenues for such research by their three views of theorizing.

The whole essay collection is available open access over at SBUR.

#curatedEssayCollection #digitalResponsibility #researchEssay #sbur #vhb