it's B! Cavello 🐝First #Conferencia4D and now #ColumbiaHertie, I feel like I’m following @pluralistic around the universe!
I arrived late but caught @pluralistic talking about the post-American Internet. Now, the inimitable #LinaKhan discusses the dangerous ouroboros of cloud providers building AI models and benefiting from the consumption of their services… And “now, instead of McKinsey made me do it, they just say AI made me do it”
@pluralistic More choice quotes (now from Cory):
“When life gives you SARS you make sarsaparilla”
“They think any pile of shit big enough, must have a pony at the bottom of it”
“When life gives you SARS you make sarsaparilla”
“They think any pile of shit big enough, must have a pony at the bottom of it”
Lina Khan discusses “free speech” & the history of regulating dissemination channels (how many broadcast stations a company could own, for instance). There is a precedent, & there was some rekindling of this re: net neutrality, but we lost a lot of that energy.
@pluralistic talks on how switching costs prevent people from finding better platforms because “they love their friends more than they hate Mark Zuckerberg.” Conversely, requiring platforms to regulate speech gives platforms MORE power.
@pluralistic talks on how switching costs prevent people from finding better platforms because “they love their friends more than they hate Mark Zuckerberg.” Conversely, requiring platforms to regulate speech gives platforms MORE power.
Khan discusses how the business model of the ad-driven internet drives harmful behavior. @pluralistic and #LinaKhan disagree about the role of #Section230 in exacerbating this issue. Khan discusses how 230 has shielded algorithmic feed curation and how it maybe doesn’t deserve the protection. Doctorow challenges that the issue isn’t 230 (which he says protects new entrants), but rather lack of privacy protections (which, tbf, Khan nods along to).
Closing remarks, with allusions to trade policy and #EuroStack:
@pluralistic: “I think we’re in the in the first days of the post-American Internet. It may not be a good Internet. But we could make it a good Internet.”
Lina Khan: “We’re going to have to reckon with the question of whether cloud computing should be treated as core infrastructure.”
Cory and Lina for #PublicAI? 👀
@pluralistic: “I think we’re in the in the first days of the post-American Internet. It may not be a good Internet. But we could make it a good Internet.”
Lina Khan: “We’re going to have to reckon with the question of whether cloud computing should be treated as core infrastructure.”
Cory and Lina for #PublicAI? 👀