RE: https://mastodon.social/@MikeElgan/116628156172886406
Oooh, this resource👇🏻 is going to be *incredibly* helpful whenever I may try to question / explain the uberisation of #GenAI coming soon to an org. near you! 😜
We've been here before, haven't we?, and we don't seem to have learned much from previous mistakes with other tech hype cycles, specially, when you connect the dots with trends like this one I shared a while ago 😔👉🏻 https://mastodon.social/@elsua54/116482791455221637
Oooh, I think I'm going to add this toot 👉🏻 https://mastodon.social/@koen_hufkens/116623232837449069 to this thread and see how many more #GenAI vendors come forward admitting to the world (and their own customers! )what we all knew a while ago.
Looks like the mask(s) are *finally* coming off and about time, too! 😜👍🏻
RE: https://mastodon.social/@mattsheffield/116610488291267590
Hummm ... I guess I haven't missed much since I deleted my #LinkedIn account back in mid-December last year ... As per 😈👇🏻
"Confused, dependent users are more profitable than competent, autonomous ones. Lock-in is more valuable than interoperability. Opacity is more valuable than transparency. The architecture of modern consumer technology has been optimized against user competence with extraordinary success"
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"It’s about being able to make informed choices instead of having choices made for you by systems optimized for someone else’s revenue"
#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia
"The platforms are making your information diet worse on purpose, because worse converts to engagement, and engagement converts to revenue" [2/2]
#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia
"The algorithm situation is the one that most directly affects daily life and receives the least serious scrutiny. […] These systems are explicitly not neutral — they’re optimized for engagement, which empirically correlates with outrage, anxiety, conflict, and tribal reinforcement, because those emotional states produce the behavioral signals the engagement metrics reward" [1/2]
#SovereignByDesign #OpenBiz #Web20 #FuckTheAlgorithm #SocialMedia
"Whoever holds your behavioral data holds power over you. That’s true whether or not you’ve done anything wrong" [2/2]
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"The problem is not, primarily, that services collect data. The problem is that users have been convinced to treat pervasive surveillance infrastructure as benign or beneficial, and to respond to any criticism of it as paranoia, technical elitism, or failure to appreciate convenience. The learned helplessness is the crisis. The data collection is the symptom" [1/2]
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Going to take the liberty of adding a few noteworthy quotes below to remind me as to why I am here (#Mastodon) nowadays 😅👇🏻
"This is the result of two decades of deliberate, calculated effort by the largest technology companies on earth to turn users into consumers, instruments into appliances, and technical literacy into a niche hobby for weirdos"
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"The obituary for the power user is being written right now. The people writing it are the same ones who sold you the phone, designed the app store, wrote the terms of service you didn’t read, and built the algorithm that decided you didn’t need to see this" 🤯😤
"The Slow Death of the Power User" 👉🏻 https://fireborn.mataroa.blog/blog/the-slow-death-of-the-power-user/
A superb essay, poignant as hell. I can relate, I used to be one of those folks up to about a decade ago 😱😢
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Luis Suarez