Yeah, I'm here now
Meta and Google want to free you from screens — by putting one in front of your eyes at all times.
On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with @hypervisible to discuss the anti-social world they’re trying to create through mass adoption of smart glasses.
Listen to the full episode: https://techwontsave.us/episode/298_smart_glasses_are_ushering_in_an_anti_social_world_w_chris_gilliard
@dsalo That's a good way of putting it!
Latest podcast appearance, if you are so inclined. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/politechs/id1825785781?i=1000720559185
Video Dispatch: A Use Case is a Trojan Horse
A use case is a solution to a problem they wish you had
Such a pleasure to speak with
@hypervisible on Techtonic yesterday. We covered luxury surveillance and Facebook's spy glasses, which reportedly will soon have facial recognition.
Stream the show by clicking "pop-up player" on the episode page:
https://www.wfmu.org/playlists/shows/152175
We need to encourage better ethics in tech. New from me: "How it's going in tech – without ethics," referencing my conversations w/ @carissaveliz and @sundogplanets
https://creativegood.com/blog/24/how-its-going-without-ethics.html
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@stuartmarks Hey! Good to see you! How you been?
!!! My interview with @ArtistMarciaX on Mastodon and antiblackness in the fediverse (among other discussed topics) is now available online!
https://logicmag.io/policy/blackness-in-the-fediverse-a-conversation-with-marcia-x/
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You very definitely should read this piece on the social implications of "AI" and statistics by @FractalEcho over at the Goethe Institute:
"On Being an Outlier"
https://www.goethe.de/prj/geg/en/thm/tru/25453339.html
This from @hypervisible is really excellent on the multiple problems emerging from image confection: https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/google-gemini-diverse-nazis/677575/
It’s not free, and I try not to forward paywalls but for @hypervisible and this writing, an exception.
Bonus mention of @jalcine.
New piece out on the latest google gen AI misfire. https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2024/02/google-gemini-diverse-nazis/677575/
@leohavemann @emilymbender @alex Thanks!!
Mystery AI Hype Theater Ep 26: Universities Anxiously Buy in to the Hype, where @alex and I are joined by @hypervisible for an update on how students are being used as human subjects in janky LLM experiments.
Thanks to Christie Taylor for production!
Humans have something called "source amnesia" - our brains forget *where* we learned something but remember the "fact" itself, even if the "fact" was actually an assumption, a guess, or an AI output that we were going to "validate."
As a result, the semantic environment becomes polluted with "common knowledge" that's really nothing more than assumptions repeated often enough.
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Remember that any one of these billionaires could solve San Francisco’s homelessness crisis overnight, yet instead they spend their money vilifying the poor and attacking those of us who are trying to house people
Can tech billionaires turn San Francisco into a right-wing dystopia? I've been watching this situation develop over the past couple of years, and then a tech CEO's drunken Twitter death threat rampage tied it all together.
'Parallel': Elon Musk, Garry Tan and the Dream of a Right-Wing San Francisco via @newrepublic
https://newrepublic.com/article/178675/garry-tan-tech-san-francisco?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=SF_TNR
PCLOB (the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board) has received approval to release an unclassified version of its December 2020 classified report on the National Security Agency’s (NSA’s) use of XKEYSCORE, an intelligence analysis tool.
Read the report here: https://documents.pclob.gov/prod/Documents/OversightReport/900dc3c3-dc5f-4202-b7f8-55ce574afb1d/NSA%20XKEYSCORE%20REPORT.pdf
Calling Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 fans --- want to join us for the livestream? Next chance is today!
Monday Feb 5
noon Pacific
when the inimitable @hypervisible will join me and @alex to talk AI hype and ed tech!
@danhon I feel like we talked about the hallway track. Did I drop the ball on that?
