Commercial & Citizen Interests — Superversive

Capture “Regulating AI requires a lumbering bureaucracy to take on notoriously secretive companies and rapidly evolving technologies.” Regulatory capture refers to a situation in which agencies, policymakers, or regulators are influenced or co-opted by the industries or interests they are suppos

Superversive

“A machine unfettered by the friction of humans deciding if the firm should send images of nooses and razors to a 14-year-old girl consuming videos on self-harm.

“AI, as instructed by the Zuck, will likely make things worse, not better.

“Like by like, and comment by comment, the machine divides us and makes us despise others and ourselves.”

- #ScottGalloway

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METAstasis | No Mercy / No Malice

Last week’s quarterly flogging of tech executives made for good theater. It’s a show meant to make us feel something before we return to our lives. American media soon pivoted to something more important and more American, money. Meta announced earnings on Feb. 1, posting one of the most impressive quarters in business history. Some […]

No Mercy / No Malice

If the CDC was not media-trained, and that resulted in a catastrophic loss of confidence in the institution, what do you think is happening to high school administrators and teachers?

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A High School Deepfake Nightmare

An in-depth police report obtained by 404 Media shows how a school, and then the police, investigated a wave of AI-powered “nudify” apps in a high school.

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If hormones and firearms don’t go together, then neither should dudebros and AI

Some personas and weaponized technologies are recipes for disaster.

And we’re sleepwalking amongst herds of gray rhinos.

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