Jeff JarvisOpenAI announces a competition for ten $100k grants to come up with democratic principles for the governance of AI. On the face of it, this is appealing. Love democracy. But just like tech companies begging for regulation, this can also be seen as an abrogation of their own responsibility to make their own ethical decisions about how they govern themselves first.
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director of the Tow Center @ Columbia Journalism School. We research the intersection of #journalism and #technology, #platforms, #futureofjournalism .Journalism, mostly Guardian and CJR, writes on journalism, media, platforms, digital transformation, complains often. #twittermigration moment
Max KennerlyIt's not failing to remove, it's choosing to promote. Wasting a ton of money to spread hate speech is Musk's great philanthropic endeavor, his Carnegie libraries. https://www.thedailybeast.com/twitter-fails-to-remove-hate-speech-by-blue-check-users-says-report-from-center-for-countering-digital-hate?utm_campaign=owned_social&utm_source=twitter_owned_tdb&utm_medium=socialflow&via=twitter_page
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Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦This piece by @maria, on social media after 
, is a great read:
https://popula.com/2023/05/28/the-ourobouros-of-succession/
There is so much fantastic stuff to quote from it, that I would just implore you to read it in full!
But below, here are the bits that got me good.
Edit: here's Maria's own post on this, people should be engaging with it instead!
https://thelife.boats/@maria/110446928318020725
h/t @emilybell
The piece we all need, not to read but to action @maria https://popula.com/2023/05/28/the-ourobouros-of-succession/
Carl T. BergstromPrediction: CBO will be the new SEO.
CBO — ChatBot Optimization.
Right now, I think it's mostly happening by accident.
Today I asked Bing's chat for some examples of contemporary style trends in bird photography.
It got fooled by some ad copy on a sigma lenses web page, and offered me the following.
(Its other two suggestions were trite and irrelevant: current trends include using the right camera settings and winning Audubon's photo contest).
However I cannot believe Congress spent 5 hours grilling the CEO of TikTok and so far zero hours on #LLMs
I will in truth miss the parade of dogs that have done bad things every time I open TikTok …and Bukayo Saka’s spelling school… but honestly - not much else
‘Are you……..doing a zoom call from your mother’s deathbed?
‘Well - she’s not actually dead, and I am in the car park’
‘Well - she’s not actually dead, and I am in the car park’