jeffjarvis

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

Confession: I have been on that Other Site for the last few hours talking about Tucker Carlson and Don Lemon because ... well, this is a good example of why I do miss search here. I want to see what people are saying; I want to know the latest reporting; and, yes, I want to quote-tweet NYTimes Pitchbot. Now it's OK if the community of Mastodon decides it doesn't want to be a key place for news but I'd regret that. And I'm not speaking so much as a journalist but as news user.

jeffjarvis, 11 months ago to random

Prigozhin v. Putin :: DeSantis v. Trump.
There is no one to root for.

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to random

Jeezus. Maybe the "struggle" is because of coverage like this from The New York Times. Appalling.

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to random

Wrong on so many levels: ageism and ableism as well as bothsideism and bald sensationalism. This from a company run for many years by brilliant, old men. David Remnick should be but is not ashamed. New Yorker be damned.

jeffjarvis, 6 months ago to random

OpenAI is the pure bullshit company.
Altman's contention that they are building "artificial superintelligence": Bullshit.
Board members' cult of effective altruism: Bullshit.
Output from the machine: Bullshit.
It's all hallucinations: Pure bullshit.

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to random

I wish I could celebrate news of the departure of the single most malign influence in English-speaking democracy, Rupert Murdoch, but I fear Fox will only be worse under son Lachlan & that this is a means to solidify his power before Dad's death.
We have Murdoch to curse for giving us Trump, Brexit, and a right-wing news monopoly in much of Australia. I also blame him for launching media's war against the internet--because he was pissed off he failed so badly online, a story rarely told. 1/

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

Sigh. LLMs don't hallucinate. They assemble words. They know nothing, understand nothing. They are being misused by tech platforms and misrepresented by media.
When A.I. Chatbots Hallucinate https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/business/ai-chatbots-hallucinatation.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

CNN gives Trump an event in front of a audience that gives him a standing ovation. Fuck you, CNN.

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

There are so many open letters about AI, I'm starting to wonder whether AI's writing them. The latest protests AI learning from art to make art. But how has art ever been made? I'd hate to see this be a hardening of copyright's restrictions on creation. The letter's language is emotional: "This is effectively the greatest art heist in history... Generative AI art is vampirical, feasting on past generations of artwork even as it sucks the lifeblood from living artists."
https://artisticinquiry.org/AI-Open-Letter

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

Watching Richard Gingras
and Kent Walker testify before a Canadian Parliament committee on Google's reaction to C-18, testing Google sans news.
https://parlvu.parl.gc.ca/Harmony/en/PowerBrowser/PowerBrowserV2?fk=12133695

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to random

Burning Man is a festival of narcissism: The privileged who have so much privilege they can give up privilege for a few days and call that self-reliance. It is the paradox of narcissism: self-obsession is not self-awareness.

Yes, it’s OK to laugh at wealthy Burning Man attendees mired in muck | Moira Donegan https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/sep/06/burning-man-wealthy-attendees?CMP=share_btn_tw

jeffjarvis, 10 months ago to random

At the dawn of computers, newsrooms thought their "content" is what made them valued, so they each needed special "systems" to "manage" it. They commodified content until it lost value; so did their CMSes. Here is word that Vox, which made a big deal of creating its own CMS--licensing it to other news organizations--is dropping it for WordPress. Newsrooms are not each so special after all.

https://www.axios.com/2023/07/18/vox-media-chorus

jeffjarvis, 8 months ago to random

Just got my new COVID vaccination. Thank you, science. Screw you, Ron DeSantis.
And WTF, Aetna: You are not covering the booster (or the RSV vaccine)??? Don't tell me you care about our health. Shame on you.

jeffjarvis, 11 days ago to random

Germany now calls the United States the land of forbidden books. Think about that for ten seconds, please.

jeffjarvis, 11 months ago to random

E&P asked me for my thoughts on Gannett's suit against Google. This is what I said:
https://www.editorandpublisher.com/stories/eps-exclusive-interview-with-gannett-ceo-mike-reed-on-todays-google-antitrust-lawsuit,244338

jeffjarvis, 6 months ago to random

They made the black woman resign:
N.Y. Times writer quits over open letter accusing Israel of ‘genocide’ https://www.washingtonpost.com/style/media/2023/11/04/nyt-jazmine-hughes-resigns/

jeffjarvis, 6 months ago to random

POLLS ARE BULLSHIT. Pollsters are bullshitters. Reporters who report polls report bullshit. The only polls that matter are the ones that come on election day. Anything else preempts democracy.

jeffjarvis, 6 months ago to random

Look at these headlines on The Times' home page and the narrative they promote:

jeffjarvis, 10 months ago to random

In-N-Out is a bad company with greasy burgers, tasteless fries, and awful policies.
In-N-Out Burger to Require Doctor’s Note for Employees to Wear Masks https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/us/in-n-out-doctors-note-employees-masks.html?smid=tw-share

jeffjarvis, 10 months ago to random

Today is publication day in the US for my book, The Gutenberg Parenthesis, in which I examine society's entry into the age of print for lessons as we leave it. Bloomsbury just gave me 25% off discount codes: TGPJJ23US (US) or TGPJJ23UK (worldwide).
https://gutenbergparenthesis.com/

jeffjarvis, 4 months ago to random

When journalism thinks its value is intrinsic in the commodity, content, rather than in service, education, and collaboration:

The New York Times sued Microsoft and OpenAI for alleged copyright infringement

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/new-york-times-sues-microsoft-and-openai-alleging-copyright-infringement-fd85e1c4?st=2fyq2ht1yuw9usm

jeffjarvis, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to random

Works every time. #MoralPanic sells. This is the corruption of the attention economy. It is as old as the steam-powered press and mass media.

jeffjarvis, 9 months ago to random

Judge upholds Copyright Office: No copyright protection for AI. “Human authorship is a bedrock requirement.” No soup for you, machine.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/ai-works-not-copyrightable-studios-1235570316/

jeffjarvis, 1 year ago to random

The surgeon general just went on TV to tell Morning Joe social media is dangerous to youth.
Fifty-one years ago, the surgeon general contended television was dangerous to youth. In both cases, they talk correlation, not causation.
And forty years ago, the surgeon general was contending the video games were dangerous to youth.
See also Kirsten Drotner in Paedaggoica Historica on histrorical amnesia:
#MoralPanic #MediaPanic

https://www.nytimes.com/1972/03/22/archives/surgeon-general-wants-tv-to-curb-violence-for-children.html
https://www.nytimes.com/1982/11/10/us/around-the-nation-surgeon-general-sees-danger-in-video-games.html

jeffjarvis, 9 months ago to random

"Footage posted by onlookers in the Tver region showed what seemed like the trail of an antiaircraft missile and then the jet, an Embraer Legacy 600, falling out of the sky with one wing missing."

Plane Carrying Wagner’s Prigozhin Crashes in Russia, All Aboard Killed https://www.wsj.com/articles/plane-carrying-wagner-owner-prigozhin-crashes-in-russia-all-aboard-killed-82d25f1e