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   Megan (meg@fediscience.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 09:13:01 JST Megan

   I read three #tech articles this morning and they all have something in common. They each illustrate the divide between the old web (where people had choice and control over information and devices) versus the new internet (where discovery is outsourced to algorithms and companies that serve up a continuous carousel of clickable content). It is nice to see people reclaiming their agency and returning to personal curation rather than automated addiction. Links to follow.

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     Death by Lambda (xdydx@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 09:12:58 JST Death by Lambda

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     @meg @TheConversationUS

     >> "Algorithms are already undermining people’s
     >> capacity to make judgments, enjoy
     >> serendipitous encounters and hone critical
     >> thinking."

     The word undermine here makes it sound like the Algorithms are "winning" and not that humans have an inherent weakness that is being exploited.

     #Risk only exists (is the product) in the presence of #threat (#AI) and #vulnerability / weakness

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     Megan (meg@fediscience.org)'s status on Thursday, 16-Nov-2023 09:12:59 JST Megan

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     • The Conversation U.S.

     "So, no, #AI won’t blow up the world. But the increasingly uncritical embrace of it, in a variety of narrow contexts, means the gradual erosion of some of humans’ most important skills. Algorithms are already undermining people’s capacity to make judgments, enjoy serendipitous encounters and hone critical thinking."

     @TheConversationUS https://theconversation.com/ai-is-an-existential-threat-just-not-the-way-you-think-207680

     HistoPol (#HP) 🥥 🌴 and Bill repeated this.