"The idea that complex social problems are amenable to cheap technical solutions is the siren song of the software salesman"
Re the Online Safety Bill/regulatory proposals invoking harm to the vulnerable as a problem mass surveillance could solve.
Reddit: "My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and the students need to mark up its essays and point out where ChatGPT is wrong and correct it."
https://old.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/117gtom/my_friend_is_in_university_and_taking_a_history/
Honestly, this is great! The students learn to check sources, discover that ChatGPT is unreliable, *and* can't use it to generate essay question answers for them, all at the same time!
My friend is in university and taking a history class. The professor is using ChatGPT to write essays on the history topics and as the...
I joined this site a fortnight ago today.
I did not have a clue how it worked, or about its lore and culture.
Now, it seems intuitive - though not because I am adept but because networks and protocols are familiar and practical things.
We use them all the time: www, mobiles, emails, etc.
And this place is structured to encourage calm civility.
It was Twitter which was strange and, in many ways, inhumane - rewarding clicks and rage and vileness.
We just got used to it.
And now we are out.