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After months of digging and reporting, we have learned where Facebook's bizarre AI spam (like "Shrimp Jesus") comes from, who is making it, how it works, and how it is monetized.
Turns out Meta is directly paying people to spam FB with this stuff
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I really hope that the idea that tech companies can be ethical "from within" without any enforcing "from without", is something that will be considered politically naive by future historians (as naive as current sociologists deem Comte's political ideas).
The vision (and danger) of a technologists' technocracy, with as its simplest argument that "technologists and scientists know best", has a long history. It reminds me of Auguste Comte, the 19th century scientist who coined the term "sociology" yet also envisioned a parliament populated engineers & scientists who would be able to organize society on a rational basis.
Stimulating read by @robin with some great points on how talk about ethics without considering power imbalances is not just meaningless but also dangerously naive.
The first couple of paragraphs might seem a bit disjointed, but there are some crucial insights here. Sprinkling "ethics" on top of any initiative or organisation is meaningless if there is no counter-power involved, power that should ultimately be based on democratic politics.
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