Lisa Melton
Recently I read a post by some jackhole techbro who wants a default automatic feed algorithm here just like Big Social™.
Opening the door for AI bullshit is not even the worst part of this idea.
Folks, all of us here ARE the algorithm. Personal curation is a feature, not a bug.
We make Mastodon awesome by following people and boosting what we find meaningful, significant or just cool. That's how it works.
Let's keep making friends. Let's keep sharing. Let's keep Mastodon alive. Together. 💖
Warner Crocker
@waynedixon @lisamelton Concur
Wayne Dixon
@lisamelton if they want to create a mastodon client to do local AI for an algorithm, more power to them. I’m sure some people might like that, but it should absolutely be a choice, not the default.
I’m guessing that they’ve basically ignored all of the stories about Big Social’s algorithms being manipulated just to keep you engaged.
Warner Crocker
@lisamelton Concur
djsumdog
Coles Street Pothole
@lisamelton I'm a pretty firm advocate for no AI use at our office. My simple line? "You are better than the AI." True here, too.
T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:
djsumdog
I had drinks with a old co-worker a few weeks back who was (and still is) a web marketing manager. He told me he writes some reports with the LLM and he's pretty sure his director asks to summaries all the reports she gets with LLMs..
I rarely uses the Weighted Random Word generators outside of code and I would NEVER use them to craft a message to someone or a blog post. The thing about writing is that it's the way we organize thoughts. you are organizing what you want to communicate. The moment you outsource that to matrix/transformer/attention multiplication, you've lost the ability to arrange what you're thinking and putting it into order.
That's such a essential part of written language, something that we've only had for a few hundred years! Literacy rates were at 2%~5% for much of the ancient world until like .. what... 1500? 1600?
These days I can't even read generated shit. It might not even be auto-generated. Some people may just write that way now because they use GiPPTY /Claude so much that it's just how they think now. It drives me bonks.
Coles Street Pothole
@djsumdog @lisamelton I'm not in a tech field, no coding—we just have researchers writing reports, and some of them were trying to use AI to write . . . and it was soooooo painful. The stuff read like it was written by a forgetful corpse. There was no . . . connection for me. I sniffed it out and asked them to please stop, to write things from scratch on their own.
djsumdog
T man :sex: :puffgiga: :puffpowerroll:
djsumdog
GreenSkyOverMe (Monika)
@nosaj @lisamelton https://mastodon.social/@trendytoots/116405761773264584
Nosaj :boost_ok: :loading:
Someone needs to make an algobot account that just boosts the trending posts every hour and tell people that that's the algorithm. 🤣
Atoro
@lisamelton I follow @hypebot which boosts me trending toots into my otherwise chronological timeline. That helps me to see stuff outside of my curated bubble.
The important part is, that this is MY decision and no one forces anything on me.
Dusk to Don :blobraccoon:
*stands on desk*
We ARE the algorithm!
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