New York City public schools ban @OpenAI's #ChatGPT
https://www.yahoo.com/now/chatgpt-openai-new-york-city-public-schools-ban-192608080.html
Sinan Aral ✅
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David Austin Professor @ MIT; Director, MIT IDE; Founding Partner, Manifest Capital; Author, The Hype Machine, Former Chief Scientist, Social Amp; Former Chief Scientist, Humin;... In Stealth Now Too
Had a few thoughts on Twitter, Elon Musk, Content Moderation, Network Effects, AI Automation, ChatGPT and more on Yahoo Finance this morning...
I think I needed to get that off my chest! 🤣
https://finance.yahoo.com/video/twitter-seeing-unprecedented-rise-competitors-153916808.html
Just, what? Twitter abruptly bans all links to Instagram, Mastodon, and other competitors.
https://www.theverge.com/2022/12/18/23515221/twitter-bans-links-instagram-mastodon-competitors
Of course, he then heard the regulators knocking:
Twitter Scrubs Controversial Competitive Platform Policy From Site.
Excellent account of how to watch a football match and how to watch the brilliant "strolling and dawdling" of Lionel Messi...
Great Read
https://www.newyorker.com/sports/world-cup-2022/the-genius-of-lionel-messi-just-walking-around
Brendan NyhanDisappointing on Birdwatch/Community Notes - could be improved I'm sure but unlikely under M***
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-twitter-birdwatch-community-notes-misinformation-politics/#xj4y7vzkg
https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-twitter-birdwatch-community-notes-misinformation-politics/#xj4y7vzkg
Renee DiResta"Twitter’s infrastructure has delivered a perpetually roiling crowd; to be on Twitter is to fight on Twitter, and often to fight about Twitter."
Today I reread something I wrote in April ab Twitter as a public square, which includes a brief history of Twitter's evolution on content moderation. Right-wing wingnut media freaked out over this one (breathless fanfic about "regime scribbler DiResta", "disinformation career girl attacks elon musk!") but yeah, it's held up...
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/04/elon-musk-buy-twitter-free-speech/629571/
The Code Queen@tmccormick @sinanaral great episode 👏👏👏
Ali VelshiRussia is no closer to capturing Ukraine than it was 297 days ago. Former Ambassador John Bolton believes things could have been different, for the worse. “If Donald Trump were still President the Russians would be in Kyiv already.” #Velshi https://www.msnbc.com/ali-velshi/watch/john-bolton-if-trump-were-still-president-the-russians-would-be-in-kyiv-157982277713
Dan HirschmanIs it just me or is this NYT headline… kinda glowing for Musk? Like, “look at the strongman being all strong!” Are they seriously both-sides-ing Musk with an “it’s complex!”?
The New Statesman“The social media platforms have created an information ecosystem that kills the best of human nature. They want you to keep scrolling, and how do they do that? By making you angry and afraid and paranoid, by making it ‘us against them’.”
The Nobel Peace Prize-winning journalist, Maria Ressa, on why Big Tech rewards disinformation, and how to fight back.
Read the full interview: https://www.newstatesman.com/the-weekend-interview/2022/12/maria-ressa-interview-defence-of-democracy
Maria Ressa: “We are in a person-to-person defence of democracy. It’s hand-to-hand combat”
On a Wednesday afternoon in February 2019 Maria Ressa was giving a presentation to a group of Facebook executives in a glass-walled office at the back of her Manila newsroom. Suddenly, the co-founder