Search-the ability to find high-quality answers-is what makes the Web function. Cory Doctorow NONCONSENSUAL BLUE TICK on how both bots and Google's monopolistic greed have degraded it pluralistic.net/2024/05/03/key…

People create in large part to communicate with other people, Judith Donath @[email protected] and Schneier Blog argue, making LLMs — which synthesize their own answers rather than connecting people to what others have created — a direct threat to the public commons of the web. theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

'The advent of AI threatens to destroy the complex online ecosystem that allows writers, artists, and other creators to reach human audiences,' write Judith Donath @[email protected] and Schneier Blog in The Atlantic

theatlantic.com/technology/arc…

A thread about the 'New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness,' which I signed. (nydeclaration.com)
The dec says that along with mammals and birds, there's 'at least a realistic possibility' of consciousness in many other groups, including fish, crustaceans, insects.. 1

'Eventually, people may stop writing, stop filming, stop composing—at least for the open, public web.'

Superb essay by Schneier Blog & Judith Donath @[email protected] about the risks from LLMs, and LLMOs, to the open web. And the choices that we and the platforms need to make now.…

'... we ourselves are becoming agents, acting on behalf of the machine in our interactions with other humans...'
medium.com/@judithd/becom…

The Impact of #AI by 2040: Digital assistants could make us 'agents of the machine.' Read the full essay by Judith Donath @[email protected]: imaginingthedigitalfuture.org/how-peoples-fr…

Really no need to bicker over whether right or left is worse here -- Trump, I imagine, will stoke hatred of Jews to attract pro-Palestinian leftwing voters, uniting anti-Semites right and left nytimes.com/2024/03/07/opi…

'the Yemeni militia known as the Houthis subscribed this month, just weeks after the United States said it would be designated a terrorist group following its attacks on cargo ships in the Red Sea'

X, still the place to be.

nytimes.com/2024/02/14/tec…

January 2024 was the warmest January on record.

New data from Copernicus ECMWF shows that we've now had:

- the eighth record breaking month in a row and

- twelve months (Feb 23-Jan 24) with global temperatures more than 1.5ºC above the pre-industrial reference baseline.

BREAKING: Our spot analysis confirms we have a new jaguar in #Arizona , making it the 8th one documented in the U.S. Southwest in the past 30 years.

Its time for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to reintroduce jaguars.

Get details ⬇️
biologicaldiversity.org/w/news/press-r…

It's #ElectronicGreetingsDay ! Former Media Lab Professor Judith Donath @[email protected] created The Electronic Postcard when she was a PhD student at the Lab. The project was presented at ACM SIGGRAPH in 1995. history.siggraph.org/experience/the…

Buzzworthy news items are the stiletto heels of knowledge

In today's marketplace of ideas, paltry demand for truth leaves an overabundance of facts to molder on the shelves

X marks the spot. You are here.
nytimes.com/2023/09/10/opi…

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She's the latest guest on #OriginsPodcast

'Judith Donath - Technology, trust, and what holds society together'
originspodcast.co/episodes-1/jud…

Ethan Zuckerman Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society MIT Media Lab Oxford Internet Institute Sam Klein📚
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