Jason Toney on algorithm-speak, main character energy, and why a simple question about music charts revealed how badly we've forgotten how to talk to each other online."
The Turing Collapse | Jason G. Butterfield | Offprint
When we can no longer tell who's real online
Why the fuss about conversational programming?
First, there isn’t much fuss … yet. But there will be.
Medium CEO Tony Stubblebine on AI Slop, Quality Content & Social Media Fragmentation
(please don't) add me to the group
We talk a lot about how broken the internet is for all of us as individuals. Doomscrolling, algorithmic feeds, overall exhaustion at The Horrors. But this...
Effective voice: Beyond exit and affect in online communities - Seth Frey, Nathan Schneider, 2023
Online communities provide ample opportunities for user self-expression but generally lack the means for average users to exercise direct control over community...
After the feed with Eli Pariser, Ben Smith, and Jasmine Sun
Why ChatGPT Keeps Interrupting You — Dr. Tom Shapland, LiveKit
We Need To Stop Calling Entertainers ‘Artists’
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Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’
His blunt, brash scepticism has made the podcaster and writer something of a cult figure. But as concern over large language models builds, he’s no longer the outsider he once was
Lisa Nakamura: The internet is a trash fire. Here's how to fix it.
Life on the internet is real life, and we need to stop pretending that what happens online doesn't matter, says digital media researcher Lisa Nakamura. In this timely talk, she explains the steps we can take to correct the toxic behaviors that have become common online -- and help make the internet a place where we all feel safe.
You have to mainline info all the time because our information tools make you do so. Infinite scroll timelines, group chats with no beginning or end, recommender algorithms with no sense of place — all of them require constant vigilance to make sense of. We can do better.
Charlie Warzel
had a death in the family and was almost completely off the internet for a few days & my observation is that there is too much happening too fast such that basic facts abt the world are difficult to ascertain unless you are mainlining info all the time & doing that seems to drive people insane
This is, at it's core why I hate what openai launched with ChatGPT. It's also why I think social agents are interesting and why Claude Code, as a power tool enabled interesting conversations with my collaborators.
tweety fish
there is a strong intellectual tradition in cognitive science (that goes well beyond Chalmers) around thinking of many of the tools we create (rulers, books, maps, whathaveyou) and a lot of our social interactions as necessarily integrated parts of our cognition and integral parts of our humanity
blacksky.community now determines trending topics for our app based on conversations within Blacksky’s community of users.
I think of all of the AI / ML / CS tech out there, speech generation freaks me out the most.
Opensourcing TADA: Fast, Reliable Speech Generation Through Text-Acoustic Synchronization
www.hume.aiAlgorithm Mediated Experiences
On the effects of algorithms on everyday experiences
AI chatbots are becoming experts at changing people's minds. What's their secret?
Can Revealed Preferences Clarify LLM Alignment and Steering?
Value misalignments in X’s feed algorithm is a reflection of value tensions in engagement
AI and the Collapse of the www
Knowledge Collapse
How LLMs Distort Our Written Language
