Check out some of the cool new moderation features coming out of Bluesky. First, posts are automatically tagged via AI and you can choose to hide, warn, or show them.
You can mute and block accounts, but you can also create your own mute lists (lists of accounts that you mute), and you can subscribe to other people's mute lists if you trust their judgement.
@micahflee Micah, you are an investigative reporter. When you credulously use the moniker "AI" to describe a software program that Bluesky uses to classify posts, just because they are calling it AI, you do your readers a disservice. This is akin to giving Elon credit for "driverless cars" just because he labels it such. And let's not get started on Bluesky's "open distributed" system that is neither open nor distributed. The job of an investigative reporter is to investigate and report. Love to know more about how Bluesky has magically hatched a real AI that can do content moderation. That would be a very big development, but instead we just call everything AI now just because some company's deceptive marketing pitches it as such.
@micahflee So, are you asserting that Bluesky is using machine learning models for classification? That's a story. What type of machine learning models are they using? How have they integrated machine learning into the content moderation process? How does the system train? Do they use image recognition to source data for their machine learning models? Are these capabilities proprietary or are they sharing them via open source? This is some really groundbreaking stuff that people have been working on for a long time with very limited success. It is very impressive that Bluesky has made such a breakthrough, or is it just bullshit? That would be a story?
And come back to us when there is another instance on their open public distributed protocol.
There's no surprise here Mike. #Elmo is just doing his job as an alpha-merchant-of-chaos ‘stoking engagement’
Notion that he's failing or struggling with #Twitter as a ‘business' is laughable:
He didn’t buy it to fix it.
He bought it to wield it.
He just hired a “#Data Mine Manager” (Yacarrino)
#PersonalData is an asset class and fuel for “X’ branded #AI’s. 16 yr data trove archive alone is priceless to sovereign immune MBS.
$44B was 🥜’s
I just started using GitHub CoPilot for VSCode, and.. wow. This basically does 50-80% of the scut work, meaning I can crank stuff out 2-5x faster and focus on the higher level stuff and not spend time thinking about "did I remember to handle error X when. grab a web page." Also, it'll reduce the amount of typing, which is good for avoiding RSI. At $19/month/user for a team, the ROI on this is like... 20-30 minutes?
@kurtseifried
I build bots that educate new coders and democratize access to AI -- random humans building stuff. Codex and ChatGPT do not educate and empower. There are much more effective, more powerful alternatives in the open source world that are more like the php of #AI. #VSCode and #OpemAI have made the wrong design choice. They will get crushed by better LLM architectures like Perplexity.ai YouChat AgentGPT and AutoGPT.
@jeffjarvis
It’s true that AI is trained on biases, but it can follow prompts of the user. If you ask for multi-ethnic or diverse professors, you’d receive a different result. 👩🏫 👨🏫 #AI#midJourney
Looks like AO3 is taking at least some measures against AI, but there's still room for improvement. The protections against AI need to be ramped up. Tags and an OPT-IN as a default are the barest minimum. Forcing users to OPT-OUT of allowing AI to use their works is unethical. Many users might not be aware this option exists and thus have their works scraped.
As a software developer, I'm aware that discerning an AI-generated text from a human-written text with current technology is basically impossible. As a writer, I want AI to be banned from creative spaces. AI is not creative. AI is not transformative. AI cannot think for itself. AI cannot love. AI is not a fan. I don't want a jumble of words based on stolen intellectual property alongside works people poured all their heart and soul into.
The guest of this episode was quantum physicist Andrzej Dragan. Andrzej Dragan is a researcher at the University of Warsaw and the University of Singapur, whose work combines aspects of both Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity.
Cory Doctorow (@pluralistic) explains "The Big Onion Lie Problem" or how the problem w/ #AI / #ML integrated into search isn't just they will spout hallucinated "facts". It's that those "facts" will inevitably propagate & become dangerously "truthy" & much more tedious to refute.
AI writing in google docs is starting to roll out to people on the wait list. If you want to get into these beta programs, you can do so here: https://labs.withgoogle.com/
“Less than 24 hours after publication on our digital platforms, The #IrishTimes became aware that the column may not have been genuine. That prompted us to remove it from the site and to initiate a review, which is ongoing. It now appears that the #article and the accompanying #byline photo may have been produced, at least in part, using #GenerativeAI technology. It was a #hoax; the person we were corresponding with was not who they claimed to be. We had fallen victim to a deliberate and coordinated #deception.”
“#AI-art generators are trained on enormous datasets, containing millions upon millions of copyrighted images, harvested without their creator’s knowledge, let alone compensation or consent. This is effectively the greatest art heist in history.”
"But this type of tool takes things up a notch by letting you alter the contents — and potentially, the meaning — of a photo in much more significant ways."
"I Created a Biased #AI#Algorithm 25 Years Ago—Tech Companies Are Still Making the Same Mistake.
In 1998, I unintentionally created a #racially#biased artificial intelligence algorithm. There are lessons in that story that resonate even more strongly today."
Relativistic Quantum Information & AI (www.youtube.com)
The guest of this episode was quantum physicist Andrzej Dragan. Andrzej Dragan is a researcher at the University of Warsaw and the University of Singapur, whose work combines aspects of both Quantum Mechanics and General Relativity.