Lightnews — Scholar-powered news

stymiegang.bsky.social

@stymiegang.bsky.social

40 followers 170 following 5 posts

Posts Replies Media Videos

Reposted by stymiegang.bsky.social

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis

@jeffjarvis.bsky.social

The Danish journalists in this thread understand what is happening in America but apparently American journalists do not. They are not so savvy after all.

Jeff (Gutenberg Parenthesis) Jarvis @jeffjarvis.bsky.social · Jan 8

Google translation of headline in @politiken.dk

January 8, 2025 at 2:57 PM

Reposted by stymiegang.bsky.social

Ed Zitron

@edzitron.com

Me in March 2024

www.wheresyoured.at/are-we-watch...

Yet the world I fear is one where these people are allowed to run rampant, turning unique content into food for an ugly, inbred monster of an internet, one that turns everybody's information sources into semi-personalized versions of the same content. These people have names — Sam Altman of OpenAI, Sundar Pichai of Google, Mark Zuckerberg of Meta (which has its own model called LLaMA), Dario Amodei of Anthropic, and Satya Nadella of Microsoft — and they are responsible for trying to standardize the internet and turn it into a series of toll roads that all lead to the same place.

And they will gladly misinform and disadvantage billions of people to do so. Their future is one that is less colorful, less exciting, one that caters to the entitled and suppresses the creative. Those who rely on generative AI to create are not creators any more than a person that commissions a portrait is an artist. Altman and his ilk believe they're the new Leonardo Da Vincis, but they're little more than petty kings and rent-seekers trying to steal the world's magic.

January 7, 2025 at 3:59 PM

Reposted by stymiegang.bsky.social

Adam Serwer

@adamserwer.bsky.social

People voted for a fictional Trump they made up in their heads and the question is whether the massive propaganda apparatus behind him can maintain that fiction while he does all the things many of his voters told themselves he wouldn’t do bsky.app/profile/carl...