Here's a first... I just got an email because ChatGPT suggested an article I wrote to somebody. Could I send them a copy? Except, I never wrote the article, it doesn't exist. PLEASE realize right now that this tool isn't pulling out cool references for you. It's making plausible titles and matching them to authors names.

6/ “Hood did work for the subsidiary, Note Printing Australia, but was the person who notified authorities about payment of bribes to foreign officials to win currency printing contracts, and was never charged with a crime, lawyers representing him said.”
#TedoexTopFive

https://www.reuters.com/technology/australian-mayor-readies-worlds-first-defamation-lawsuit-over-chatgpt-content-2023-04-05/

5/ Those labels were introduced after some #UserExperienceResearch was done. slapping inaccurate labels like this could suggest that NPR’s reporting is not entirely credible. Additionally, NPR may not be amplified by the recommendation algorithm. This is not good.

4/ #TedoexTopFive

“The designation puts NPR, which has 8.8 million followers on the site, in the same category as propaganda outlets like the Russian-government-owned RT and the Chinese Communist Party’s People’s Daily newspaper. Both are also “state-affiliated media,” according to Twitter.”

This is becoming a pattern.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/media/2023/04/05/twitter-npr-state-affiliated-musk-media/

3/ “Charlie Javice, the 31-year-old founder of financial aid startup Frank, has been charged by federal prosecutors with financial fraud after JP Morgan Chase & Co. alleged in a civil suit last year that Javice had faked millions of Frank customers to convince the bank to buy her company for $175 million.”

https://www.businessinsider.com/charlie-javice-frank-criminal-charges-financial-fraud-jpmorgan-chase-2023-1

2/ “Another concern is that large language models, which underlie chatbots such as ChatGPT, are known to “hallucinate” — make false statements as if they were facts — and can be used for nefarious purposes such as spreading disinformation and cheating in exams.”

https://www.ft.com/content/26372287-6fb3-457b-9e9c-f722027f36b3

1/ @shonatiger suggested I bring #TedoexTopFive here… where I used to have 5 interesting articles from the interwebs. Threading here is not that easy, but I’ll try do this anyway. So I’ll try this one out today. May take all day to develop. But here we go…

Yes, we need regulation. But as we said:

"It is indeed time to act: but the focus of our concern should not be imaginary "powerful digital minds." Instead, we should focus on the very real and very present exploitative practices of the companies claiming to build them, who are rapidly centralizing power and increasing social inequities."

https://www.dair-institute.org/blog/letter-statement-March2023

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Last week I attended the launch of the #BTech project led by the UN. The project aims to centre human rights in discussions of digital tech business on the African continent. There is a lot of work that needs to be done beyond policy and stakeholder engagement.

@timnitGebru we need a lot more truth-telling about the underlying theft of other people’s IP that’s powering all of OpenAI’s product as well as the role of the fawning press so eager to be on the good side of a bunch of billionaires they’ll write hagiographies so luridly obsequious that they’re just a few sentences shy of something you’d find in a teen’s crush diary.

It’s all just so over the top, it’s hard not to think we’re in a tele-novella …

Prompted By: A Conversation about Writing and Authorship Prompted by Artificial Intelligence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=02AUXedcq6I&feature=youtu.be

People grumbling that #Mastodon is slow at the moment... You just turned up with 1 million people in a tiny, rural village and you're complaining there's a queue to get into the only tearoom, which is run by gay pensioners Babs & Maureen as a retirement hobby on Mons-Weds. Relax!
#TwitterMigration