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jeffjarvis

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#Journalism prof at CUNY's Newmark School. Author of THE GUTENBERG PARENTHESIS & OBJECT LESSONS: MAGAZINE upcoming from Bloomsbury. Cohost of This Week in Google on the TWiT network.

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Live by hype...
OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says he can no longer eat in public in S.F.
https://sfchronicle.com/tech/article/sam-altman-openai-ceo-19463889.php?utm_campaign=CMS%20Sharing%20Tools%20(Premium)&utm_source=t.co&utm_medium=referral

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It wasn't the safety team. It was the doom team. AI is a h all of mirrors....
OpenAI Reportedly Dissolves Its Existential AI Risk Team
https://gizmodo.com/openai-reportedly-dissolves-its-existential-ai-risk-tea-1851484827

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The "safety" team were the more fanatical doomsters but the rest of OpenAI is still a cult building their BS god, AGI. Reporters aren't reading up on and so they are missing the real story here. At least Axios links to AGI skeptic Gary Marcus.

OpenAI's safety dance

https://www.axios.com/2024/05/20/openai-safety-jan-leike-sam-altman

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No, Grift, Inc. “It’s almost like a Silicon Valley venture capitalist model of church growth." That's a marriage made in....
God Inc.—Church Startups Spread Franchise Model Across U.S.
https://www.wsj.com/business/media/church-startups-entrepreneurship-religion-49891861?mod=hp_trending_now_article_pos3

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Revenge of the liberal arts major...
Computer-Science Majors Graduate Into a World of Fewer Opportunities
https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/careers/computer-science-majors-job-market-7ad443bf?mod=hp_lead_pos10

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The rich get too rich, with Elon leading the way...
Musk Effect Drives Spread of Supersize CEO Pay Packages
https://www.wsj.com/business/ceo-pay-packages-charts-3e7b1624?st=0i5utt2ie8hibad

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Trump and Putin there in spirit...
European far-right leaders gather ahead of EU elections
https://www.theguardian.com/world/article/2024/may/19/european-far-right-leaders-gather-ahead-of-eu-elections

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Guardrails are futile, like suggesting a printing press can be prevented from publishing lies. Generative AI is a general machine that will do what it is told. The issue is the actor. Get used to it.
AI chatbots’ safeguards can be easily bypassed, say UK researchers
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/20/ai-chatbots-safeguards-can-be-easily-bypassed-say-uk-researchers

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One theory why polls, pollsters, and pundits should be ignored and citizens should be the first to speak in an election...
Seven Theories for Why Biden Is Losing (and What He Should Do About It) https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/19/opinion/biden-trump-polls-debates.html?smid=tw-share

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I think I just finished a draft of an afterword for an academic book about the formation of the role of publisher in the early modern period. Many fascinating chapters and lessons. I pray my contribution will be worthy.

jeffjarvis,
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@CitizenWald
Oh, you can be sure I'll be plugging. It's a Brill book, so it'll be pricey (but I will sneak you a PDF).

jeffjarvis,
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@CitizenWald And I am eager for that!

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The way things are going, @jeffjarvis may need to write another book as a followup to his classic, "What Would Google Do?" to be entitled "What Did Google Do?"

jeffjarvis,
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@lauren
What Hath Google Wrought?

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@lauren @harmonygritz
I would declare publishers to be the most guilty parties in screwing up the web with their attention economy of advertising importated into it, their flooding of the net with crap under their belief that they must fill any vessel with their content, their fraudulent clickbait, and their walls.
You?

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@lauren @harmonygritz
I should add that I have a book about rescuing the Internet coming out this fall. Preorders possible now. 😎
https://www.amazon.com/Web-We-Weave-Internet-Misanthropes/dp/1541604121

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@lauren @harmonygritz
In The Web We Wave (plug #2) I argue the time has come to demote the geeks, recognizing that the Internet is less a technology than a human network that reflects our success and failures. Thus I'm working on new academic programs to bring the humanities and social sciences into leadership of the net's (and AI's) future.

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@lauren @harmonygritz
Can't blame a feller for trying, eh?

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@lauren @harmonygritz
I agree, Lauren, I argue against just such as that in my book. (Plug #3)

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@harmonygritz @lauren
Oh, thank you for that. I'll confess I had not come across it. Paper printed out; I will read it after my constitutional....

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This is a delightful tour of a wonderful author's shelves. Gift link.
Book Tour: At home with Amor Towles https://wapo.st/3K8hmHn

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"Currently, experimental studies should not be used to support the conclusion that social media use is associated with mental health. Taken at surface value, mean effect sizes are no different from zero. Put very directly, this undermines causal claims by some scholars (e.g., Haidt, 2020; Twenge, 2020) that reductions in social media time would improve adolescent mental health."
https://psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?doi=10.1037%2Fppm0000541&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAR3Ch-cqTNvnfwapzrAdcHGj2meBqLbHSGdMc66sLbv6CYMdGkq_2dw3Q98_aem_AY0tiQJzF0AeV2IPb4Kcks-_a71cW4dbIopaIizTugQI_PXFNrN7PLll0zEbf8UT6-KnPGHgJ0WKRb-sm8OpgAn1

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In my next book, The Web We Weave, I call for the negotiation of just such covenants of mutual obligation to govern the future of the Internet and society on it according to sets of principles and goals. So I signed....
https://wikimediafoundation.org/news/2024/04/23/call-to-protect-wikipedia-global-digital-compact/

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Deep fakes, indeed.
Vatican tightens rules on supernatural claims in the digital age https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2024/05/17/vatican-supernatural-divine-manifestations/

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Days later they decide to find good news:
The Good News for Biden in Our Battleground Polls https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/us/politics/biden-battleground-polls.html?smid=tw-share

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Insipient bothsidesism. One of these men is competent and wise, the other is unable to have coherent thought.
What science tells us about Biden, Trump and evaluating an aging brain https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2024/05/18/biden-trump-age-cognitive-decline/

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@jmccyoung @cindyweinstein
Thank you. I hate to use gift links on articles I hate.

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