"Some people are users of #ai but the majority of the population is the subject of AI... This is not a matter of individual choice. Most of the ways that AI interpolates our life makes determinations that shape our access to resources to opportunity are made behind the scenes in ways we probably don’t even know."
It's so common it's as if there were an underlying ideology behind it, driving such behavior and being supported by laws & norms.
>"Some people are users of #capitalism but the majority of the population is the subject of capital... This is not a matter of individual choice.
Most of the ways that "free market representative #democracy" interpolates our lives makes determinations that shape our access to resources to opportunity are made behind the scenes in ways we probably don’t even know."<
It's not hard to miss this when it's your first rodeo paying attention (aka younger quartiles). However, having been in several successive iterations of this cycle and heard the same specific, narrow complaint focus aimed at other #evolution-driven innovation that came & went, you can imagine that watching people bump around the perimeter of the problem again, while ignoring the causal upstream sources in the #system is a growing frustration.
The #media plays the same role, whether it's describing the Wall St narrative excuse for the latest boom & bust, or telling us what the latest economic, #political, or cultural #fear de jour we should be consumed by.
The same natural laws that make #disinformation impossible to contain & counter with corrections also work to ensure that any scheme for "redistribution" of #surplus in an organization will meet the same fate.
All complex adaptive systems will go through a phase change & irreversible structural #reorg when internal imbalances exceed the requirements for a pareto-optimal type harmony.
If the enemy brings tanks to your infantry battle, you had better change tactics -which will now include tanks, btw.
Does anyone have a good place to upload videos ... Mostly for the documentary and other horology stuff, oh and silly things ... Giggles ... Like.rhe fediverse?
I know of peertube, any others and any instance that are good ?
#AI#GenerativeAI#Media#News#Journalism#Newsrooms: "More than 60 newsrooms and media organisations have shared their insights with us so far, with more coming in as we publish this update. The survey includes 35 questions ranging from the technical, to the ethical, the region-specific, and of course, we dedicated a section to generative AI technologies! The survey has been supplemented with great conversations we’ve had with many that have enriched this research.
"...popular #art operates on an experiential rather than a contemplative base...its form corresponds to action and...its time is the continuous present of duration.
The foregoing argument suggests that the shape of the public is traced in the form of a popular artwork. The formal qualities of convention and realism are there more because the artwork is popular than because it has claims to being art. Thus, we have seen in this chapter what has been demonstrated in the chapters that have gone before: that the concept of a public is the principle distinctive element in understanding popular art. Audiences enter into the mass #media and the cultural ideas that serve as popular art materials. Audiences exert a shaping impetus on popular artworks that gives them some claim to the status of popular artists. And here, in the forms of popular art, we have found the audience entering into an understanding of structure and of experience – the perdurant and the ephemeral poles of popular art form. Perhaps the best argument for the validity of the ritual model for the form of popular art is that it takes into account the relation of the audience and the work in a way that underlines the significance of that relation and reminds us how central it must be to any adequate understanding of popular art."
#Media#News#Journalism#SocialMedia: "On average across 46 markets, we now find that less than a quarter of respondents (22%) actively participate in news — down a striking 11 percentage points since 2018. Meanwhile, growing numbers of news users participate reactively (31%, up 6 points since 2018), and nearly half now do not participate at all (47%, up 5 points). These trends remain consistent in the U.S., for instance, where the proportion of active participators (24%) is down 11 percentage points since 2016 and passive consumers now make up a majority (51%) of news users."
The Liberals say the law is meant to end tech titans’ dominance of the digital advertising market, stating that in 2020, both platforms took in more than 80 per cent of Canadian online advertising revenues as the country’s journalism industry faced hundreds of closures.
Please provide me with arguments about why this is a good idea. I have a tenuous understanding of Canadian law and am leaning towards it not being a good idea.
It isn't a good idea. It's a #terrible idea that #politicians in #Canada latched on to to show they're "standing up to big US tech companies", and which the big Canadian #media backed as (what they thought would be) a big cash cow.
I'm 100% with you that the #government has no business deciding what qualifies as "#news".
Canadian media companies are going to see their traffic drop 50-80% - including the ones with no seat at the negotiating table.
Celebrating 3.2 Million Followers on Genshin Impact’s JP Twitter (twitter.com)
Thanks to all Travelers, the number of official Twitter followers has exceeded 3.2 million!...
Happy Birthday, Raiden Ei!
2023 Birthday wishes
Yoimiya, Kuki & fireworks (twitter.com)
"Yoimiya and Shinobu are both there. C'mon, let's go!"...
Happy Birthday, Yae Miko!
2023 Birthday wishes