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Will Oremus
New: Casey Newton's Platformer is leaving Substack, suggesting its recent move to ban some accounts has failed to quell a writer revolt over its tolerance of extremist content. https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/01/11/substack-platformer-nazis/
Will Oremus
The Washington Post says it will pause its advertising on X, joining numerous other brands. Apparently Elon posting a Pizzagate meme this morning was the last straw. Story by @drewharwell: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/11/28/pizzagate-musk-twitter-x-controversy/
Will Oremus
web4 is a web written by AIs for other AIs. unfortunately there are still humans in the loop reading the content and expecting it to not be total gibberish. web5 fixes this
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Will Oremus
A high-profile First Amendment ruling that restricted the Biden admin's contacts w/ tech firms & researchers relied on "invented quotations," Stanford says in a legal brief—and violates disinfo researchers' own speech rights. My story today: https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/08/03/disinfo-researchers-are-under-pressure-right-theyre-starting-push-back/
Will Oremus
Asked for examples of sexual harassment at law schools, ChatGPT named a GW law prof accused of touching a student on a class trip to Alaska, citing a 2018 Washington Post story. The law prof is real. The rest was made up. We wrote about what happens when AIs lie about you: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/05/chatgpt-lies/
Will Oremus
It gets weirder. ChatGPT generated the fake scandal involving law prof Jonathan Turley in response to prompts from Eugene Volokh last week. Turley wrote about it in a USA Today op-ed on Monday. OpenAI appears to have since addressed the issue: ChatGPT no longer names Turley when given the same prompt. But today we tested the same prompt on Microsoft's Bing AI. And guess what...
Will Oremus
Antisemitic tweets have more than doubled on Twitter since Elon Musk took over, a new study finds. Asked for comment, Musk's press department auto-responded with a poop emoji. https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2023/03/20/antisemitic-tweets-soared-twitter-after-musk-took-over-study-finds/
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Voron
@willoremus Billionaires don’t have to respond to peasants anymore now that government doesn’t care about peasants anymore either 
Paul Widzowski
Well Musk is easy to understand from a Christian point of view, He is a serial adulterer, with his tryst with Brin's wife being a vile and clear case. Second, I am unfascinated by the hyper wealthy, greedy and spoiled children. the society defines "net worth" so that Musk has a higher score than, say Mother Teresa. I follow God not mammon, and when it comes to "net worth" I score Mother Teresa higher than Musk.
Will Oremus
Starting nowish (1pm ET): The Washington Post's @cqz interviews the president of Signal, @Mer__edith Live stream: https://whittakerjan2023.splashthat.com/
Will Oremus
Folks in tech who say it's easy to criticize but hard to build... Sorry, no. It's easy to build if you don't care about the flaws or societal consequences or ripping off others' work. Any midwit sociopath can do that. The hard thing is to build something that *isn't* evil. 
Darius Kazemi
@willoremus Also, speaking as a builder and a critic... have these people *tried* writing useful criticism? There's a reason I put out ~1 major software project a year and ~1 major critical essay a year. They're about equally hard to do well!!
Will Oremus
Here’s the full story on Musk’s Twitter takeover and firing of the executive team: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2022/10/27/twitter-elon-musk/ |
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