Christine Lemmer-Webber (@cwebber) described ChatGPT as Mansplaining As A Service, and honestly I can’t think of a better description. A service that instantly generates vaguely plausible sounding yet totally fabricated and baseless lectures in an instant with unflagging confidence in its own correctness on any topic, without concern, regard or even awareness of the level of expertise of its audience.
I don't think journalists (in general) -- and certainly not the organizations they work for -- fully understand the threat Musk represents to the future of free expression and journalism itself.
Begging him to reinstate the banned accounts is pure folly. It is bended-knee supplication to a sociopath who now controls a powerful media company. But the power of his company depends in no small degree on keeping journalists there.
Leave. Now.
The Boston School of Public Health has left Twitter - https://www.bu.edu/sph/news/articles/2022/reconsidering-our-engagement-with-twitter
Their reasons? "...it is clear that there is essentially no oversight for the company’s functioning beyond what the new CEO, Elon Musk, thinks should be done. This creates a very visible media platform that is running its operations solely according to the priorities of one person, with no accountability."
Oof. #twitterpurge
Andrew Feeney
Dan Gillmor
Dr. Christian DeFeo