Cautionary tales abound. We see what happened to WhatsApp for biz, where they removed e2ee in pursuit of the business market. Or what happened to Wickr, a private comms service which was shut down by Amazon post-acquisition b/c it wasn't profitable enough.
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Signal’s 501c3 Status Protects Privacy Against Surveillance Business Models
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Skiff was a cool private ~productivity suite. Now they're shutting down after being acquired One more example of how important Signal's 501c3 status is–a structural safeguard protecting privacy in an industry where $ is generally tied to surveillance.
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The Problem With ‘Generates’: Language, AI, and Meaningful Communication
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Right. Although the verb "generates" gives us very very little to go on, beyond signaling a deep disregard for the magical process of using and extending human language to relate to each other. There's simply nothing concrete or meaningful about this statement.
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Word Count as Metric: Meaningless Quantification in Serious Analysis
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Number of words is bare quantification signifying nothing. It's meaningless, uninteresting, beside the point as a serious person's metric. And yet…
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Unbounded Growth: Tech’s Latest Target in Expansion Quest
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The "number go up!" free radical finds yet another macromolecule to bind to/attack.
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FDA for AI: From Metaphor to Concrete Regulatory Framework
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The idea that we need an "FDA for AI" is frequently invoked as a metaphorical placeholder in convos on AI regs. But what does/could this mean? & what are the limits & possibilities of such an approach? Grateful to AI Now for moving the convo from analogy to concrete analysis!
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Understanding US Future: Technology and Societal Concerns
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This thread helps explain my terror at the current/future state of the US
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Rosenblatt and early AI pioneers: foundational figures in artificial intelligence
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Rosenblatt, 1940 something? Or any one of those guys from then to now lol.
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Dominion Energy halts new datacenters amid power grid constraints
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Dominion Energy, which supplies power to N Virginia (highest concentration of datacenters in US), is now saying no new datacenters b/c the grid cannot support their power needs. IMO it's irresponsible to have these hyperscaler aspirant convos w/o frontloading climate impact.
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Social Media Algorithms and Misinformation Distribution Mechanisms
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I think these assumptions rely on a counterfactual view of ppl's behavior + knowledge, + a misassumption re. how these media are distro'd, enter the discourse–generally via ad-targeting/engagement-calibrated bait on social platforms, often via fake-authoritative accounts.