"How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok Into MechaHitler? The malfunctioning xAI chatbot provides some insights into how large language models work." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
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External lecturer at Uni of Cph, Copenhagen Business School & Roskilde University. Digital media scholar, part-time nerd, full-time mum, born again catlover and impatient IPhone-photographer. Trying to update a book (in Danish) on social media.
"How Did Elon Musk Turn Grok Into MechaHitler? The malfunctioning xAI chatbot provides some insights into how large language models work." prospect.org/power/2025-0...
Laundromat cafe, Copenhagen.
From dawn to dusk. Project exams as supervisor at RUC. With students from Mexico, Cameroun, Greece, Ireland/Philipines, Kroatia, France, Czech Republic, Germany and Denmark. Almost around the world in one day.
Kom til at tΓ¦nke pΓ₯ Resnaisβ Nat og tΓ₯ge da jeg sΓ₯ det sidste billede. www.cinematheque.fr/film/50890.h...
Selvom den fΓΈrste exodus er ovre, tror jeg heller ikke vi har set den sidste. Novembers βtilflyttereβ kom vist primΓ¦rt fra Twitter, nu er folk forsigtigt pΓ₯ vej fra Facebook, i hvert tilfΓ¦lde i mit eget netvΓ¦rk. Men der mangler stadig et brugervenligt alternativ til FB uden begrΓ¦nsning pΓ₯ tegn.
The cat and I are pretty hard at work at the moment.
Lots of interesting info in this new interview with the COO of Bluesky. Fi subscriptions coming end of year.βWe are two women heading Bluesky who have been on the internet for years. We put safety firstβ. But does distributed labelling of controversiel content do the trick, I wonder?
[da] det fΓΈles lidt som gammel elevfest at hΓ¦nge ud i samme program som @fohns.dk @tveskov.com @ernstpoulsen.bsky.social @4nd3rs.dk β¦ (altsΓ₯ pΓ₯ den gode mΓ₯de!)
When you invent the ship, you invent the shipwreck as Paul Virilio said. Story out that a ML librarian at Hugging Face created an AI training data set based on 1 million complete posts from Bluesky. Blueskyβs open fire hoseAPI allows this, like it, I suppose, allows researchers to crawl the siteβ¦
Interesting and thought-provoking findings which to a certain degree also reflect my own experience. Note however that findings are based on self-reported data from countries defined as having low- or medium profiency in English (Bangladesh, Bolivia,Japan, Nepal, Nigeria, Spain, and Ukraine).
@snurb.info reminds us that Weinberger pretty much killed the echo chamber discussion 20 years ago. + Often when people talk of echo chambers, they really mean βcommunityβ
Communities of interest are now forming on BS but it doesnβt mean the place will turn into a platform of siloed conversations.
Vi har valgt at udvide top-listen over populΓ¦re danskere pΓ₯ Bluesky.
Er du pΓ₯ listen - og hvem er ellers i toppen?
#bskydk #dkpol #dkmedier
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Today I taught a BA class in Media studies. Out of about 25 students in their early twenties, only two knew about Bluesky (and the X-odus). Obviously anecdotal evidence but I wonder when and if the under 30βs will move in here? Anyone out there with knowledge of f.i US youth and Bluesky use?
Thank for the link love Line :)
Internet studies people unite!
Internet studies starter pack is here - incomplete, skewed etc etc but some fantastic folks, to help us all rebuild our social networks. Happy to add you if I left you out! Please circulate, and here it is:
go.bsky.app/KHmxfWf
(Link to chapter overview plus download via Dropbox)
Research is not always slow! Jackson et al have just published a report on the 2024 US election with 80+ short analyses of various aspects of the election by renowned researchers, including social media use. www.electionanalysis.ws/us/
βThe state of most social platforms right now is that users are locked in and developers are locked out. We want to build something that makes sure users have the freedom to move and developers have the freedom to build.β β @jay.bsky.team in @nytimes.com
gift link:
whiteboard with MUST: - 10k user signups - view post on web - app store - other pds federate - 3p labels/services etc
A whiteboard from our Jan 2023 team retreat where I wrote down our goals, and the top one was β10k user signups.β
Weβre growing by 10k users every 10-15 minutes right now.
November mood.
Udviklingen af antal postsfra danskere pΓ₯ Bluesky, de seneste 90 dage
Full steam ahead pΓ₯ danskere som springer fra X / Twitter og her til Bluesky.
SΓ¦rligt i de sidste par dage er det gΓ₯et stΓ¦rkt med nye brugere og dermed ogsΓ₯ posts.
PΓ₯ Overskrift.dk monitorerer vi naturligvis ogsΓ₯ danske Bluesky posts og samtaler. #dkmedier #smdk
Similar trends in DK where an anti-screen evangelist with a renowned psychologist has started a citizen petition to also ban social media (Snapchat, Tiktok and Instagram) for young people under 18. If they get 50.000 supporters Danish parliament will have to discuss it&they are getting there..
Austrian Airlines' farewell to the Twitter.
This was Austrian Airlines' final post over on the Twitter.
Bluesky is now the #2 social app in the US, Canada, and #3 in the UK π¦
On bsky, ~30% of y'all are posters compared to the 1% main characters on other platforms. Turns out there's more chattiness & connection when you have algorithmic choice π€
According to Blueskyβs own profile in here, 1 million new users have joined the app in the last week. Is this the final X/Twitter exodus, an effect of the outcome of the US election or what is going on?
Uh, thatβs a lovely one!
Tak Torill!
Testing photos with a cat.
My first post, pretty late to the party!