This does not make sense.

What do you do if you don't like a book? Do you stop reading it, or do you read it to the end?

I don't need to know 95% of what's in the news. There's too much noise!

I just don't think chatbots will make the world a better place. 🤷‍♀️

Violence has always attracted an audience. Just think of gladiator fights, witch burnings, public hangings, and boxing matches.

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Maybe some more self-reflection is needed.

Where there is a hero, there must also be a villain.

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ChatGPT is spending trillions of dollars and destroying the environment so people can figure out that you should make pasta on a date

Unfriending...

Still have yet to see AI make my life better in any way

"The ultimate aim of authoritarian propagandists is often to sow so much doubt and confusion that it leaves people passive and ready to give up their agency to a strongman leader. Conspiracy theory narratives are particularly useful for this." www.noemamag.com/journalism-i...

"A new study shows that cutting social media use for just one week can reduce mental health symptoms, like anxiety and depression, in young adults."

The word of 2025 is "AI slop". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

"There are accounts that are run by troll farms, that are run by nation states, and then there are accounts that are just trying to make a buck by pretending to be American. There is always some money to be made from fanning America's culture wars on social media."

Is law a kind of algorithm?

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With all this noise, it's difficult to hear what's really important.

1/Russia-Ukraine diplomatic freelancing underscores transformation of neo-royalist order. Courtiers can strike deals but also stir up confusion. Witcoff edition. www.reuters.com/world/europe...

The more I see the John Lewis Christmas Ad on TV, the more it comes across better and better I think, especially against other Christmas Ads running (and not because I love 90's Dance Music) The full 2min version carries more emotion with it too www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1bR...

This is really scary... Having followed Orbán's governance of Hungary for 15 years, I must say that this makes perfect sense.

Twitter pays people based on engagement (views, retweets, comments, etc). It appears that many MAGA accounts are based abroad and they use AI technology to generate low-effort rage bait. My guess is that this will get worse as AI tech improves. For instance, fake videos of minorities doing crime.

"Instead of thinking about debunking disinformation, we should be thinking about how to tell better stories…they're stories of action, stories of policy, stories of meaning…And it's up to us to tell these stories." —Peter Pomerantsev

This is really scary... Having followed Orbán's governance of Hungary for 15 years, I must say that this makes perfect sense.

It's actually extremely easy to influence LLMs with prompt injections and training data insertions. This is why a lot of orgs are moving away from the "scrape it all and let legal sort it out later" providers. We're also seeing unproven marketing claims coming out of LLMs as fact.

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No way! How could that be possible?

While the regulatory procedures based on laws are always helpful, it is obvious, once again, that the main aspects of the digital sphere (platforms, data, AI etc.) are political issues, because they have to do with power and the inscriptions of it. So, we need political -not legal- answers to them.

As I reflect on the ways in which generative AI is going to change human relationships, it strikes me that these “validating machines” are going to be more consistent and reliable than any human because they don’t express doubt or counter-evidence. Ego glazing is the AI equivalent of love-bombing.

Everyone is talking about how AI will change everything. But what exactly will it change? The only specific example usually mentioned is that AI will take everyone's jobs.

kai ziehl #streetphoto #nightphoto #monochrome

WPP's troubles are pretty much self-inflicted.

Youll never hear about AI “replacing” C-suite jobs

“Because knowledge is the enemy of action. A chaotic environment demands bold decisions that captivate the public attention and shock his adversaries.” — Giuliano da Empoli, The Hour of the Predator

“Now the situation has been reversed: chaos is no longer the weapon of the rebels, but the banner of those in power.” — Giuliano da Empoli, The Hour of the Predator

“Once the chaos goes beyond a certain stage, the only way to restore order is to identify a scapegoat. And the leader, any leader, is always a scapegoat-in-waiting.” — Giuliano da Empoli, The Hour of the Predator

“If politics is the continuation of war by other means, it is hardly surprising that this activity tends to attract the most violent characters, people who find meaning in life only when they are in conflict.” — Giuliano da Empoli, The Hour of the Predator

It's entirely fitting that one of the first big AI-generated music producers is a Deloitte consultant.

We badly need an Enlightenment 2.0.

“...a wealth of information creates a poverty of attention...” ― Herbert A. Simon

"Why American-style polarisation is spreading across the West" Two words: algorithms and incentives. Mostly incentives. Until we modify or eliminate incentives, all we can do is watch as the fabric of society is pulled apart, strand by strand. www.ft.com/content/5060...

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Here we go agin...

Sigh.

Slobodian on places like The Line is good www.dezeen.com/2025/10/22/q...

"Advertisers are increasingly just going to be able to give us a business objective and give us a credit card or bank account, and have the AI system basically figure out everything else." www.404media.co/the-future-o...

The Cheap Thing

joe falisi #reflection #cityphoto #pedestrian #b&wphoto

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