"... Data Workers Inquiry ... is a really important example of bringing attention to what's going on in the work that is hidden behind the facade of artificial intelligence because it's being marketed so heavily is fully automated when it's always people and so the various initiatives to make that visible are hugely meaningful even if they are small compared to the onslaught."
#EmilyMBender, author of The AI Con, 2025
I'm really enjoying the interviews I've heard so far on the Sunday Show, the podcast of Tech Policy Press;
It's refreshing to be reminded that there is a wide range of people doing deep thinking about the information environment. Researching it, sharing their insights and findings, and talking about radical solutions.
"Instead of thinking about fixing existing platforms - that's done, they're not going to fix themselves - I think it's about developing new platforms. Voting with your feet, getting to places where you want to be."
#KateStarbird, University of Washington, 2024
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#podcasts #TechPolicyPress #SundayShow #SocialMedia #PlatformCapitalism
[PODCAST] Taking Stock of the Google Search Remedies Trial by #TechPolicyPress
https://pca.st/episode/12f196a3-8bdf-45ff-83c7-0ec07b56c00b
I’m listening again to the #TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse (8 Dec 2024, 33 min)
https://pca.st/episode/ed93d6ed-cf06-4c45-9117-7c0da527cf8e
Register to join the FREE #MediaEdLab Zoom webinar on “Participatory Storytelling and News” tomorrow, Monday March 3rd:
https://mediaeducationlab.com/events/participatory-storytelling-and-news
Great #podcast episode @petramolnar on Migration in the Age of #ArtificialIntelligence by @justinhendrix with #TechPolicyPress
Lots of interesting elements in this discussion, but especially the reality that we will be facing unprecedented migration. #ExtremeWeather & #ClimateChange will shake borders.
The role that #AI is going to play in reducing people to a number is shocking.
Intriguing & on-point observations by #KateStarbird about “participatory storytelling” in today’s social media environment, the way right wing social media influencers succeed via-a-vis “traditional objective media / journalists.” Also how “the Democratic Party is not telling a compelling story…”
#TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] “Towards Resilience: A Conversation with Kate Starbird About the Future of Online Elections Discourse”
https://pca.st/episode/ed93d6ed-cf06-4c45-9117-7c0da527cf8e
Important read from Taylor Owen in #techpolicypress 'On the Coming Merger of Tech and State Power' https://www.techpolicy.press/on-the-coming-merger-of-tech-and-state-power/
(1/2) #PodcastQueue recommendation: #TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] The Race for AI Supremacy (17 Nov 2024)
https://pca.st/episode/0fa9c403-1ece-4dbe-804a-162c4b289f50
Fantastic conversation with journalist and author Parmy Olson. Her new book is “Supremacy: AI, ChatGPT, and the Race that Will Change the World,” focusing specifically on “Sam Altman and Demis Hassabis and their roles in advancing artificial intelligence.”
More media literacy in tech related article and podcast recommendations, follow my
(1/2) Great [PODCAST] conversation with Philip M. Napoli from Duke University about our transformed information environment replete with disinformation and systemic attacks on media literacy academic researchers:
“Documenting the Assault on Disinformation and Hate Speech Research” by #TechPolicyPress (24 Nov 2024)
https://pca.st/episode/e9e3ab66-ad80-44e0-96b8-2e1b3674ffc4
Also addresses his recent paper for “The Information Society” titled "In pursuit of
On one of the #TechPolicyPress episodes that downloaded today, "Unpacking the Digital Services Act", the guest claims that gen "AI" "is a tool, obviously, for human creativity" and what the fuck?
That's not obvious at all, because it's false. #genAI is a tool built through and for *stealing* and exploiting human creativity. Not in its service. #AIEthics
Don’t miss @justinhendrix interview @kissane for Sunday’s #TechPolicyPress #Podcast discussing #Fediverse Governance Report #FediversalistPapers co-authored with @darius supported by @DigInfFund
📝https://fediverse-governance.github.io
🎙️https://player.captivate.fm/episode/aaf1f847-89df-4a72-8bef-9c828876b2d0
(6/6) #edtechSR #Google #AntiTrust #regulation #history #LiberalDemocracy #RuleOfLaw #FreeSpeech #freedom
via #TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] From King James to Google: Barry Lynn on the Antitrust Revolution (13 Oct 2024)
https://pca.st/episode/602cd085-3d84-4685-b52a-ca62dc61f346
AI enhanced image by Wes Fryer via Ideogram:
https://ideogram.ai/g/jjJFUIsZQ_SzswilGVI0UQ/0
Edited with Adobe Express for iOS:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/adobe-express-graphic-design/id1051937863
It is not the case that “AI gathers data from the Web and learns from it.” The reality is that AI companies gather data and then optimize models to reproduce representations of that data for profit.
#TechPolicyPress #AI #GenerativeAI
https://www.techpolicy.press/challenging-the-myths-of-generative-ai/
NEW ARTICLE: From Cambridge Analytica to Tenet Media: What Will it Take for the US to Regulate Influence Firms? My latest in #techpolicypress https://www.techpolicy.press/from-cambridge-analytica-to-tenet-media-what-will-it-take-for-the-us-to-regulate-influence-firms/ #influencers #socialmedia #disinformation #propaganda #commodon #polcomm #USElection #Trump #Russia @potemkinvillage Thanks to @justinhendrix!
#TechPolicyPress offers about the only #sociopolitical analysis of tech available anywhere, so I listen.
Today there's an interview with #Mozilla's president. Surely a radical thinker, I hoped.
He spoke about Mozilla's focus on AI, how it will generate "trillions of dollars of new wealth", how excited he is about #capitalism.
And how great it is that #Firefox offers you more choice by letting you "change the default search engine" - WTF does that mean?
🙄🥱
‘AI systems constrain our ability to beat the odds, flip the script, or start over. As they increasingly mediate important aspects of our lives — what college one attends, whether a parent has to repel state suspicions of child mistreatment, or even whether an accused gets bail or parole — the ability to secure a manual override becomes ever more advantageous.’ — @maroussia
https://www.techpolicy.press/the-future-is-analog-if-you-can-afford-it/
(And let’s stop calling it ‘AI’ already!)
@shane ooh what are your favourite podcasts Shane?
Mine are mostly political or tech and I assume would bore most people: #LateNightLinux, #BigPicture, #Macrodose, #Deconstructed, #OnTheMedia, #TechPolicyPress, #PoliticsTheoryOther, #factually.
Always looking for more good ones 😊
#TechPolicyPress - such a good podcast - did a great pod today about our work https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-sunday-show/id1552627235?i=1000657566216 #AI #shareholderactivists #responsibletechnology #Meta #eko
#TechPolicyPress [PODCAST] A Perspective on Meta's Moderation of Palestinian Voices (26 May 2024)
https://pca.st/episode/1c0ba15a-81c8-471f-9019-612a9c1bcd14
#edtechSR #MediaLit #Gaza #Israel #IsraelWar #ContentModeration #HumanRights #genocide #LikeWar
