I repeat: Guardrails are futile. Generative AI has no sense of meaning or (dis)information. So, yes, it can be made to say anything. This is not news. It reminds me of early days when people fainted that something could be wrong on Wikipedia. #MoralPanic
See How Easily A.I. Chatbots Can Be Taught to Spew Disinformation https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2024/05/19/technology/biased-ai-chatbots.html
"Affect and the Rise of Right-Wing Populism: Pedagogies for the Renewal of Democratic Education, suggests ideas about affective pedagogies for educators to use (along with recognizing the risks involved) to renew democratic education"
This book has lots of interesting ideas that are helping me refine my thinking of political change, moral panic, citizenship in a democracy, and empathy or compassion as a political emotion (souring into pity).
Gonna think about how to translate this to plainer English...
how to sell moral panics with bad science, jonathan haidt edition
by Greg Fish
"no consistent correlations between screen time and negative mental effects. On top of that, suicide rates among teenagers are down despite going up for all other demographics, and longitudinal surveys show no decline in life satisfaction among teenagers since 2012."
The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.
Margot Déage: "A girl who does not belong to a boy or a man can fall into the category of whore at any time, whatever her clothes or sexual practices."
Margot Déage: "Being in a position to say who’s a whore and who’s a good girl is a power in itself within the girls’ group, a power that is strongly mobilised by certain girls. The ones who can fall, in general, are the hardest on the matter."
The social norm is constructed: not naturally occurring but created by the society in which it is found.
Hence there are no actions which in themselves are inherently #abnormal or universally condemned by all societies at all times. Deviance is thus situational and contextual.
@dhepworth #MoralPanic sells. Moral entrepreneurs profit along with the media who willfully, credulously promote them.
See this excerpt from Haidt and then see the next excerpt from my upcoming book, The Web We Weave. There's Haidt and then there's the fuller facts.
More nonsense #MoralPanic: "Murthy said that between 2000 and 2020 there has been a 70% decrease in the amount of in-person time young people in the US spent with their friends."
What's the increase in their connection with friends over the net?