How much have the Saudis invested in Musk’s little takeover of Twitter? Just wondering… cnn.com/2023/08/31/mid…

This is Elon Musk’s vision for social media.

An AI Agent that just files lawsuits against nonconsensual corporate data scraping

ChatGPT has a data problem. First, European privacy watchdogs sanctioned OpenAI for mishandling users’ info. Now a class action in California over data used to train AI. What's next? Legal repercussions of the exploitation of data workers around the world? washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

This does for workers behind ChatGPT & co what Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] did for workers behind social media content moderation. 'ChatGPT... was trained by an AI... mimicking humans... rating an AI... mimicking humans... pretending to be a better version of an AI... trained on human writing.'

✨I have a guest essay in the The New York Times !! It was a delightfully challenge to turn the basic puzzle of my new European Research Council (ERC) project, 'Data Loss: the Politics of Disappearance, Destruction and Dispossession in Digital Societies' Københavns Uni into a guest essay in New York Times Opinion

Always thrilled to be of service. 😉 🏳️‍🌈

En 1997, IBM Deep Blue avait battu Gary Kasparov, le plus grand joueur d'échecs au monde. En 2023, ChatGPT n'est même pas capable de battre le philosophe de pacotille Raphaël Enthoven. En un peu plus d'un quart de siècle, il est étonnant de voir à quel point l'IA a reculé.

Libraries and archives are fundamental social infrastructures.

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Linda is a substantial, not recognized enough force in the field - here she is on the left with Tim Berners-Lee demonstrating the WWW in 1991.

You can learn more about her in this tribute from Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected]

drsarahtroberts.com/2018/08/10/for…

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Also everyone should read Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected] and Mél Hogan 😷 🏳️‍🌈 🍪 on prepper exit fantasies and tech billionaires boundary2.org/2019/08/sarah-…

Prophet is a fitting term and the author's nod to millenarian apocalyptic preppers is spot on. Can't deny the religious aspects of AI doomerism venturebeat.com/ai/the-future-…

Lol, I'm the reason twitter is going to end blocking.

Twitter’s rightwing takeover is complete. Why are liberals still on it? | Arwa Mahdawi | The Guardian theguardian.com/world/2023/jun…

“We have to ask: Is a facsimile good enough? Is imitation good enough? Is that all we care about?” says Dr. Sarah T. Roberts [email protected]. “We’re going to lower the measure of quality, and to what end? So the company owners and shareholders can take a bigger piece of the pie?” washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

Advertisers might find this of concern. If they’re still here at all.

Twitter lost its head of brand safety and ad quality, people familiar with the matter said—the 2nd departure of a safety executive this week as the company tries to win back advertisers wsj.com/articles/twitt…

Happy Pride! Watching fascists fight capitalists (corporations) while the rest of us get on with our own recognition of our own communities is probably the best outcome one could hope for.

Twitter's VP of trust & safety vanished from Slack | Fortune

Hm! 🧐 fortune.com/2023/06/01/twi…