Email or username:

Password:

Forgot your password?
Top-level
Luis Villa

@kissane in a discussion last week[1], someone explained a related vibe as "I used to create works, now I produce points in a corpus" and I've been thinking about that a lot as an efficient encapsulation of the current moment.

Among other things thoughts, I'm not aware of any protocol, or implementation, or legal supplement to a protocol, that has terminology or other mechanisms to capture that vibe.

[1] Maybe it was @CyberneticForests ?

4 comments
Erin Kissane

@luis_in_brief @CyberneticForests

<whispervoice>I think protocols largely try to exclude vibes but they get through anyway, just in weird/uncanny ways</whispervoice>

Luis Villa

@kissane @CyberneticForests definitely agreed, though Fedi protocol more than most actively *includes* a loooooot of mid-20teens vibes (no QT, hostile to search, migrating names but not posts, etc.). How explicitly/implicitly those vibes are encoded varies a lot, though, which is of course the slippage you're (correctly!) so intrigued by.

Luis Villa

@kissane related to something I said to @polotek a few minutes ago, also: often vibes get layered into legal "protocols" (IP, TOUs, etc.) instead of the technical protocol, for a variety of reasons (some good, some less so).

Fedi/AP are rediscovering that, the hard way.

Eryk Salvaggio

Just published some of those thoughts from the CC panel today! ""This transition from “a thing I shared” to a data point to a dataset, and then to data infrastructure, has been a sour pill for those of us who shared our work online without foreseeing the future of AI models for labor displacement, surveillance, or other unsavory forms of automation." It's here: techpolicy.press/context-conse

@luis_in_brief @kissane

Go Up