"Platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are structured around a social graph in which users follow and are followed by other users. In turn, the content we see depends on what’s shared in our network."
#ZeveSanderson, #SolomonMessing,
#JoshuaATucker, 2024
Ugghh, no. This was true of all 3 DataFarms when they first started. But all 3 have been inserting posts into people's feeds from outside their social graph for years.
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"... the release of OpenAI’s ChatGPT launched an international conversation about how generative artificial intelligence—i.e., AI capable of producing text, images, video, and more—could transform our lives."
#ZeveSanderson, #SolomonMessing,
#JoshuaATucker, 2024
The lie that this artificial paint-by-numbers involves "intelligence" has been repeated constantly by the industry hype machine. It's worrying when even academics uncritically parrot this lie.
> The results are resoundingly clear—judgements about position relative to a baseline are dramatically more accurate than judgements about angles, area, or length (with no baseline). Hence.. [#Cleveland] suggests that we replace #PieCharts with #BarCharts or #DotPlots and that we substitute stacked bar charts for grouped bar charts.
#SolomonMessing on #EdwardTufte and #DataVisualization
