It's okay to be an evangelist for good technology.
It's okay to turn off a feature like motion smoothing on their TV where there's really no downside.
But going and changing the software they work with in a way that will affect their workflow materially is not cool. It's the kind of weird "I know better than you" consent violation we see all too often from people here on Mastodon.
(I've also heard of people switching out Windows for Linux and I hope those people enjoy their eternity in hell.)
The exact same approach can be taken on Twitter, though.
Yes, Twitter does provide the additional official option, but this out-of-band approach is also available, just as a matter of knowledge and using available technology.
It doesn’t rely on any particular ActivityPub functionality.
@waldok l
This story follows a previous @arstechnica story that somehow managed not to notice that hard drives sent to a data recovery company are not a good sample from which to estimate hard drive failure rates and instead blames SMR (shingled magnetic recording) technology.
It even notes that the previous study sounded too bad to be true, but then takes the Backblaze results as evidence to the contrary.
Daily Inspiration: "Maybe it's a good time to put some intelligence around your artificial intelligence strategy!" - Futurist Jim Carroll
I built a new little microsite through the weekend - give it a look at https://jimcarroll.ai
Why did I do this? Because it's becoming pretty clear, pretty fast, that there is so much FOMO-driven momentum around AI right now that CEOs and senior executives are quickly coming to get to the 'WHY' of the AI-related action plans they are hearing from excited staff.
"WHY are we doing this?"
The page intro captures the essence of what I've been thinking:
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The acceleration of AI is not just about technology.
It's also about the promise and the peril, the opportunity and the challenge, the disruptive impact and the strategy. It's about leadership.
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"In chatbots, in some autonomous-driving systems, in the unaccountable AIs that decide what we see on social media, and now, in the latest applications of AI, again and again we are the guinea pigs on which tech companies are testing new technology.
It may be the case that there is no other way to roll out this latest iteration of AI—which is already showing promise in some areas—at scale. But we should always be asking, at times like these: At what price?"
https://www.wsj.com/articles/chat-gpt-open-ai-we-are-tech-guinea-pigs-647d827b @mimsical
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