AI election manipulation tracker by Rest of World Liked Rest of World’s 2024 AI elections tracker by Viola Zhou (Rest of World) As more than two billion people vote, we’re monitoring the way AI is being used in political campaigns, memes, and misinformation. Poursuivre la Lecture →
at least the indieweb has humans in it Liked https://werd.io/2023/as-social-networks-begin-to-fill-with by Ben Werdmuller (werd.io) As social networks begin to fill with AI-generated crap, it occurs to me that the small, independent web will be the last place where you know you’ll find content and conversations from real people. Poursuivre la Lecture →
Liked Google’s chatbot panic by Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net) The really remarkable thing isn’t just that Microsoft has decided that the future of search isn’t links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar – even more remarkable is that Google agrees. Poursuivre la Lecture →
I don’t use generalist search engines anymore Replied to The Tragedy of AI and Google Bard (curtismchale.ca) After reading Casey Newton’s post on Google playing catch up with AI via Bard I’ve been prompted to complete some thoughts I’ve had brewing about search. Poursuivre la Lecture →