As a keen observer of misinformation on social media, Markup reporter Lam Thuy Vo knows that #algorithms and #social platforms can often favor a privileged minority.
Freelance technology journalist Shubham Agarwal (@phonesoldier) discusses the decline of mainstream social media platforms, the emergence of the "pluriverse" and what the future could hold for our online social and professional lives. Plus, Flipboard's CEO @mike describes what features a social media network would need to have to be successful today.
🥥 New to the #Fediverse?
1 ) Welcome.
2 ) We have no #ads and no #algorithms, but we have skillz.
3 ) If you #favorite a post, you're telling the author that you liked it.
4 ) If you #boost a post, you're helping its author get seen by a wider audience on more instances.
5 ) Choose wisely, Grasshopper! 🥥
People yearn for acceptance, to be acknowledged for who they are. No one enjoys being ostracized, sidelined, or ignored.
Algorithms on certain social platforms can sometimes foster these feelings, leading to sadness or, worse, anger.
Let's strive for inclusivity in our online spaces.
Together with 17 civil society groups across Europe we call on @DigitalEU to support Ireland’s push for healthier #socialmedia & apply it across the EU.
To tackle addictive #algorithms, surveillance-based recommender systems should be disabled by default!
With "Filterworld: How Algorithms Flatten Culture" out this week, it was the perfect time to revisit my @Flipboard podcast interview with @chaykak and turn his picks into a newsletter.
See which book, artist, author and home appliance the New Yorker writer thinks are essential. (One is from 1933!)
Our next :rstats: talk will be an Intro to Functional Programming in R on Thursday July 13th at 5pm Eastern Time!
Functional programming is a great skill for any R programmer to have in their back-pocket and can take your programming to the next level, increasing your productivity and making it easier for you to solve complex problems.
What a privilege to be in the company of such smart, engaged and nice colleagues, friends, keynote speakers, stakeholders at the @algosoc ‘launch’ today. The challenges to ensure public values in the algorithmic society are real. We will all do our best!
"I think something more fundamental has been lost for all of us as social media has evolved. It’s harder to find the spark of discovery, or the sense that the Web offers an alternate world of possibilities. Instead of each forging our own idiosyncratic paths online, we are caught in the grooves that a few giant companies have carved for us all." #BigTech#algorithms
Making the internet more hostile to human lives through #algorithms, #metrics and #generativeModels should be treated as an attack upon human rights and be responded to as such.
The AI Act is done. Here’s what will (and won’t) change
The companies with the most powerful AI models will face more onerous requirements, such as having to perform model evaluations and risk-assessments and mitigations, ensure cybersecurity protection, and report any incidents where the AI system failed.
You have an n by m grid, where each square is either filled or empty. You also have a stamp in some shape that you can use to fill squares in the grid. You can only stamp squares if none stamped squares are already filled.
Is determining if a given grid with preset files squares can be completely filled with the stamp in P or NP?
📢 Two fully funded #PhD positions in our group, the Sydney Algorithms and Computing Theory group (SACT) at the University of #Sydney, and André van Renssen
#SocialMedia#SocialNetworks#ContentModeration#Algorithms#RecommendationEngines#Messaging: "So you joined a social network without ranking algorithms—is everything good now? Jonathan Stray, a senior scientist at the UC Berkeley Center for Human-Compatible AI, has doubts. “There is now a bunch of research showing that chronological is not necessarily better,” he says, adding that simpler feeds can promote recency bias and enable spam.
Stray doesn’t think social harm is an inevitable outcome of complex algorithmic curation. But he agrees with Rogers that the tech industry’s practice of trying to maximize engagement doesn’t necessarily select for socially desirable results.
Stray suspects the solution to the problem of social media algorithms may in fact be … more algorithms. “The fundamental problem is you've got way too much information for anybody to consume, so you have to reduce it somehow,” he says."