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A. Das

@rohandas.bsky.social

Writer, editor, digital programmer, sometimes movie critic. CMS@MIT, CRC@NYU. Editorial/programming: @TEDTalks, @io9, @slant_magazine, @livemint, @SundayGuardian. NYC/Kolkata.

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮@joshuafoust.com · 2d ago

Would suggest it also depends on newsmakers deciding to value facts and thus have to evaluate claims in their coverage, or if they persist in arguing their job is to just capture the discourse in which case facts and officials lying won’t matter. So far, the “nothing matters” movement is winning.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 2d ago

Drawing on a new report, Princeton CITP’s Hilke Schellmann & Mihir Kshirsagar see two futures: one where we lose confidence in facts and settle into rumor, another where trusted producers hold the line. Which wins depends on whether newsmakers and technologists actually talk to each other, they say.

If you know you know@privatechand.bsky.social · last wk.

I had a visceral physical reaction to this story that is hard to describe. Just destruction of everything I hold dear. Monstrous garbage oligarchies.

Dr. Jeroen W.P. Wijnendaele@drdragases.bsky.social · last wk.

No longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.

Eddie Robson@eddierobson.bsky.social · 3w ago

I was having a similar thought the other day about why AI gets the "it's the future and we all have to embrace it" line whereas renewable energy, which obviously IS the future and we're well on the way there already, is subject to "are we going too fast on Net Zero" nonsense.

mtsw@mtsw.bsky.social · 3w ago

Big business runs our media and so they're much more excited about AI and the concentrated profits to oligarchs it promises than solar, which has diffuse benefits to all people. In fact, solar will kill one of their favorite businesses (big oil)

Too Big to Fail@toobigtofail.bsky.social · 4w ago

I have increasingly realized that finance people have quite literally lost their minds to AI. Logic, reason, knowledge, critical thinking, all gone like tears in rain. The next you think "why is that financial thing happening?" remember that these people literally believe we'll have infinite robots

Jeremy Diamond ☕️@dmnd.me · 4w ago

Holy shit, this is even more insane than I thought. Of course there's a demand ceiling for durable products you fucking idiots. Once you have an Instant Pot, you don't need another Instant Pot. ai-2040.com/supplements/...

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 4w ago

"executives with no understanding of the industry" seems to be an endemic problem across industries: higher education, medicine, you name it, a bunch of suits with MBAs and unearned arrogance are destroying everything around us, and for some reason, we're supposed to accept that they know best

Greg Iwinski@garyjackson.bsky.social · 4w ago

TV writers were right in 2023 and are being proven more right every day — there was a stable television model that made everyone lots of money and put out good shows. Then execs with no understanding of the industry confused the production model and the distribution model, and they blew it all up.

Philipp Markolin@philippmarkolin.eurosky.social · last mo.

"In some cases, employees said, they felt as though their employers had started living in a completely different reality. The workplace had become a constant battle between their version of reality versus the AI’s — and their boss, these workers said, always chose the latter."

jon christian@jonchristian.net · last mo.

NEW: Workers say their bosses are becoming obsessed with AI and essentially turning the entire workplace into an exercise in AI psychosis -- making absurd pivots, communicating only in AI slop, and even asking ChatGPT who to fire futurism.com/artificial-i...

Matt Zoller Seitz@mattzollerseitz.bsky.social · last mo.

"Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return."

By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)@doctorow.pluralistic.net · last mo.

When Google strips all this away by harvesting an "answer" and displaying it at the top of the page, the bargain between Google and the open web breaks down. Google is extracting 100% of the value from the websites it summarizes, and giving nothing back in return. 7/