remixtures (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"Social media and AI platforms have shut down open interfaces previously used by researchers, while becoming litigious toward critics and researchers, stifling independent watchdogs.
What is needed now is not euphoric cheerleading. At minimum, governments should impose mandatory transparency reporting and independent audits of AI platforms; pass legal requirements that tech platforms be open to public-interest research; encourage investigations into the negative psycho-social effects of AI, especially on youth; and introduce sanctions targeting firms whose operations are implicated in AI malfeasance.
It says something bleak about our times that systems capable of modeling language and reasoning with remarkable efficiency are being exploited for covert purposes, deployed not to expand human understanding but to systematically subvert it. Instead of “democratizing intelligence,” as Mr. Solomon claims, we are witnessing a kind of collective brain damage. The Minister of AI should be mitigating those risks, rather than naively championing the tech behind it all."
#Canada #AI #AIPolicy #AISafety #LLMs #Chatbots #Disinformation #SocialMedia
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theverge (@theverge@c.im)
Can Luigi Mangione get too big to jail? https://thever.ge/UkXH #InternetCulture #Entertainment #SocialMedia #Politics #Culture #Policy #Report #Tech #Law
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techygeekshome (@techygeekshome@techhub.social)
How to Delete your Tumblr Blog or Account | #Evergreen #Guide #SocialMedia
https://tinyurl.com/yu9yzsr7
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ajguides (@ajguides@mastodon.social)
How to Delete your Tumblr Blog or Account | #Evergreen #Guide #SocialMedia
https://tinyurl.com/ypcxx9bv
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us (@us@newsbeep.org)
U.S., China Continue Trade, TikTok Negotiations
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The United States and China enter another round of…
#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #America #China #foreign&publicdiplomacy #homepage_regional_china #ScienceandTechnology #SocialMedia #tradepolicy&agreements #u.s.-chinacompetition #UnitedStatesofAmerica
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/161720/
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anja (@anja@chaos.social)
Ich hatte grad was Lustiges gesehen, aber ich weiß nicht mehr was.
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arstechnica (@arstechnica@c.im)
Mods react as Reddit kicks some of them out again: “This will break the site” https://arstechni.ca/M2Mn #socialmedia #reddit #Tech
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jos1264 (@jos1264@social.skynetcloud.site)
Charlie Kirk’s death got complicated by gamer brainrot https://www.theverge.com/column/778988/charlie-kirk-tyler-robinson-online-regulator #SocialMedia #Regulator #Politics #Column #Policy #Tech
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Irisherself (@Irisherself@mastodon.social)
"Real human content is being sidelined by algorithms. Engineered AI slop is now prioritised. Early social media was built for connection. The AI-fuelled attention economy has broken that illusion. Feeds are no longer crowded with people, but with empty meaningless blurb."
https://www.noemamag.com/the-last-days-of-social-media
#socialmedia #algorithms #genAI
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scrollbots_com (@scrollbots_com@mastodon.social)
Judy, Ma and Jabari discuss the impact of social media on mental health and authenticity. They agree that sharing personal struggles feels difficult in comparison to showcasing successes or highligh… #SocialMedia https://scrollbots.com/?t=1758055344
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i47i (@i47i@hachyderm.io)
#DENMARK - 60-year-old convicted of Facebook comment about Hamas
> Today, it has cost a 60-year-old man a sentence of five months in prison to write a comment on Facebook, which, according to the Court in Næstved, is an expression of terrorist approval.
> Ritzau writes.
The punishment has been made conditional on the man performing 100 hours of community service.
> Specifically, the man wrote in his comment about the Hamas attack on Israel on October 7: "Good thing they feel their own medicine".
> The man pleaded not guilty during the hearing, but has chosen to receive the verdict, writes Ritzau. https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/seneste/60-aarig-doemt-facebook-kommentar-om-hamas #Danmark #socialmedia #freespeech #Hamas #GazaWar #Israel
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media (@media@eicker.news)
»Viral violent videos on social media are skewing young people’s sense of the world« https://theconversation.com/viral-violent-videos-on-social-media-are-skewing-young-peoples-sense-of-the-world-265371?eicker.media #media #socialmedia
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