Why does anybody take the right's allegations about paid activists seriously when anyone on the right who is not a billionaire is on a billionaire's payroll? The Brents being obvious cases in point, along with at least half of the Supreme Court.
@chargrille Are any of us really safe in this world in this age? 🧐🧐
I love “probiotics for the brain.” Definitely captures the purpose the LichenSubscribe and Bloomscrolling hashtags serve for me. Hope you find your good bacteria!
The thing is, I expect these commitments to shift underfoot, from Slack and from every other company going through a WOOT! WE HAVE CUSTOMER DATA! phase.
We desperately need a regulatory regime for this. All that “Oh no! Congress must act to prevent Skynet!!” was just a bunch of BS, a laser pointer dot to keep the kittens in legislatures from looking at the actual issues.
So…the “Slack will now train AI using your data” thing is not as much of a five alarm fire as I’d first assumed:
“We do not develop LLMs or other generative models using customer data.” ← GOOD.
“Data will not leak across workspaces.” ← Or so they say. They •are• training across workspaces, but sounds like recommender systems and not generative models, so…we’ll see. Seems fraught. Still, that public commitment does mean something — legal expose, at least.
@cmconseils Oh, that is good to hear! I’ve been hesitant to watch: season 1 was fine, but season 2 really grabbed me…and left such a good taste in my mouth I’m hesitant to venture on to season 3 just yet.
@jeffjarvis@RD4Anarchy@fifilamoura Jeff, the phrase you’re looking for is, “Sorry, I was careless with terminology! I’ll edit the post.” Easily done. No harm, no foul.
(Not an anarchist myself, but did learn the difference between the vernacular “anarchist = chaos-lover” and the political science meaning of “anarchist” by making exactly the sort of mistake you made. No shame in learning something new!)
@thias Maybe so. The pendulum does swing back and forth: in 2004, it seemed like all code was going to be written in Java.
The CS program where I teach does make a concerted point of exposing students to different tools and languages repeatedly, and eventually creating a context where they’re learning them self-directed and project-driven ways.
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