@neilturkewitz
I write mostly about the intersection of tech & art/culture which these days means I spend nearly all my time trying to address the exploitation underlying current AI models. A secular humanist interrogating modern religions.
From the pen of my dear friend & source of constant inspiration—@daniellecitron.bsky.social
“The reasonable steps approach is valuable precisely because it’s flexible. As technology & content moderation practices evolve, so, too, will the reasonableness & efficacy of certain policies & practices.”
I agree completely with @bruceboyden.bsky.social here. The response of law to technology shouldn’t necessarily be technological. The object of law/legal interpretation should be to find the through line that connects disparate technological developments to a single moral standard & duty of care.
We shouldn’t be so concerned that Mullin doesn’t have a bachelor’s degree
Plenty of smart, successful people never went to college
We should be concerned that Mullin is unqualified, particularly stupid and ridiculously arrogant-a dangerous combination which is unfortunately very common among MAGA
Did you see Jack Dorsey’s ridiculous comments about why he fired 40% of his staff at Block? GRRRRR!
UK Lords Report, as per @diginomica.com
“widespread unlicensed use of protected works, coupled with limited transparency from AI developers about how their models have been trained, leaves rightsholders unsure about whether their content has been used, & unable to enforce their rights when it has.”
He says “I'm most upset that it fragmented the conversation across ideological lines, versus one protocol being able to host everything. Maybe that desire was just way too IDEALISTIC.”
I have better words—“self-serving” & “ill-considered.” By failing to address harassment, he undermined speech.
Jack says “I don't want to be a company that dies from irrelevance,” in defense of telling almost half his workforce that THEY ARE IRRELEVANT.
I’m not sure there’s anyone out there more insufferable. There may be folks more explicitly evil, but the nexus of zen & heartlessness is incomprehensible.
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The House of Lords Digital & Communications Committee just published their report on AI, copyright & the creative industries, and their conclusions could not be clearer.
🧵 1/5
- AI training isn’t ‘learning’ and shouldn’t be treated as such
The House of Lords has been absolutely consistent on this, and they are totally right. Will the government listen?
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Thanks Marielza! As @ednewtonrex.bsky.social mentioned in his thread, the House of Lords has been consistently excellent on seeing through the Silicon Valley hype and rejecting what is effectively a wealth transfer from UK creators to US tech companies. Let’s hope that the government sees the light.
Long enough to do the fandango.
Don’t forget to breathe.
“Might is right” has never been so on point in every respect. The fusion of techno fascism & Christian nationalism is astonishing. Small wonder that the Kennedy Center and intimations of Avalon are so profoundly troubling to the President.
He’s not even the second least sharpest tool in the shed.
“Competence option” is unnecessarily generous. In fact, with this Administration, competence would be a disqualification. Of course, this remains a hypothetical question.
I don’t know—Tuberville gives him a run for the money in that department.
“He competed in mixed martial arts (MMA)—which is like wrestling but for people who killed bugs with a magnifying glass as children.”
“Defending human authorship isn’t nostalgia.
It is a form of cultural resistance.”
Exactly! Strip mining of our souls to produce derivative content paste removed from truth, emotion or meaning is not a future to which we should aspire. It’s a world in which colors are replaced with gray. Only gray.
Incredible, eh?
Uraeus (2017-2018), by Anselm Kiefer
Rockefeller Center, NYC
#WorldBookDay (UK & Ireland)
Good point. My thinking about AI was too parochial!
“Most of what a writer experiences is failure. Developing a voice takes years. The point is not to make it out of the woods quickly or unscathed. Getting lost is not the rough part. It’s the whole thing.”
—Charles Yu
@theatlantic.com
@authorsguild.org @penamerica.bsky.social @wgawest.bsky.social
Artificial security?
Well observed Ian…and there’s also a dark side.
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Amazing, isn’t it? It predates Apple’s 1984 commercial which in hindsight looks sorta derivative.
