The big, old publishers grab their bag o' gold from OpenAI et al, leaving out all of local, Black, Latino, digital, and new media and the needs of the public. The industry should instead band together for a news API. But it's every mogul for himself.
@jeffjarvis Strange, that this wide variety of media producers were called mass media while the monopolists today are regarded as individualized social media.
Dr. Martin Andree calculated that traffic on the internet has a Gini coefficient of 0,988. There are Alphabet and Meta and then there is all the rest.
In which I react to the Science paper on "managing extreme AI risks." I say it's time to move past discussions of AI led by AI people. I want to hear from the humanities and social sciences. Demote the Doomsters. https://medium.com/whither-news/demote-the-doomsters-208f15b3ea78
(Remember: I always crosspost on Buzzmachine)
@jeffjarvis The antisemite kooks like to say som6etime to the effect of "to really know who's in charge, look to whom you're not allowed to criticize".
@jeffjarvis Watching what's going on in america from the outside, it's crazy.. the bastion of free speech turning into 'you're free to say noncontroversial things only' (even north korea allows that kind of 'free' speech).
"In a large part of American political discourse, overt cynicism is the currency of sophistication....The disturbing truth is that there’s probably more sincerity than not in American politics. We may not want to believe it, but most of the people in charge say what they mean and mean what they say." - @jbouie
Justice Alito Is a True Believer https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/21/opinion/alito-flag-stop-the-steal.html?smid=tw-share
@jeffjarvis@jbouie Alito can be a true believer and also render himself unqualified to render impartial judgement. His true believer ferver has blinded him to reason in interpretation of the law. It has driven him to risible contortions of argumentation obviously developed to justify preordained conclusions.