One wonders why Richard Hanania has gotten so much attention.
“I was surprised how upset some people got”: A conversation with the creator of TomWikiAssist, the bot that edited Wikipedia
"It's almost like people were really quite disoriented and terrified by it. And to some extent I get it and I'm trying to empathize with how they're feeling."
Creepy Wikipedia - Lemmy.World
#### A fediverse community for curating Wikipedia articles that are oddly fascinating, eerily unsettling, or make you shiver with fear and disgust image [https://i.imgur.com/82WfIgF.png] ##### Guidelines: 1. Follow the Code of Conduct [https://legal.lemmy.world/] 2. Do NOT report posts YOU don’t consider creepy 3. Strictly Wikipedia submissions only 4. Please follow the post naming convention: Wikipedia Article Title - Short Synopsis 5. Tick the NSFW box for submissions with inappropriate thumbnails. 6. Please refrain from any offensive language/profanities in the posts titles, unless necessary (e.g. it’s in the original article’s title). ##### Mandatory: If you didn’t find an article “creepy,” you must announce it in the thread so everyone will know that you didn’t find it creepy image [https://i.imgur.com/WWq2agj.gif]
I’m a Professional Writer Who Uses a Very Controversial Tool. It’s Not As Scary As I Thought.
I was skeptical about ChatGPT and Claude at first. Then I started to come around—and I’m glad I did.
Claude Mythos and misguided open-weight fearmongering
Another dance around fears of open-source.
Ian Preston (@ianopolous.bsky.social)
Mathematician/particle physicist turned privacy researcher. Java Rockstar #Oxford Building a better web - private, self-sovereign identity, p2p, social - with @peergos.org. Public social media undermines democracy. #covidisairborne #maskswork #cleantheair
Becca Lewis - Reactionary Futurism - 2025/2027 Rogers Chair Series
Erlend Sogge Heggen (@erlend@writing.exchange)
3.88K Posts, 688 Following, 1.28K Followers · Bullish on kindness. Founder of Spicy Lobster studios and Weird. https://weird.one Formerly VP of Community / Product Lead at Discourse. #opensource #gamedev #fediverse
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
Sloppelgängers
Superhuman’s CEO sat for an interview about the AI feature that used writers’ names without permission. What he revealed was worse than the feature itself.
Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ on Twitter / X
1. Ok, this is the thread to end all threads, or possibly my career. I am about to trash a new paper in @sciencemagazine, its editors, its reviewers, C&E News, others who stated or wrote adoring commentaries, anyone who looked at the paper or its commentaries without seeing pic.twitter.com/K5O1cX1BJP— Dan Singleton 🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️ (@dasingleton) April 8, 2019
Discerning Audiences Through Like Buttons · Issue 6.1, Winter 2024
Column Editor’s Note: The ‘like button’ is a ubiquitous and infamous feature of social media platforms. ‘Likes’ ostensibly allow users to interact and engage with one another, but platform developers hope that data generated by users’ likes allows them to model, predict and even manipulate both individual and collective affective states. This Mining the Past column by communication scholar Carina Albrecht explores the history of the like button from “Little Annie,” developed at CBS in the mid-twentieth century, to the Cambridge Analytica scandal. Throughout this history, researchers and tech developers hoped to make ‘subjectivities’—emotions, preferences, personalities, political orientations—into ‘objectivites’; they sought to turn inner worlds into profitable data. Albrecht’s history reveals that the like button is best understood not as a passive recorder of preexisting affect and sentiment, but rather as a data technology that generated the emotive effects the button claimed to measure.
Lucas Gautheron conducts a really interesting online design experiment to show popularity feedback kills diversity and innovation. Super cool work!! #IC2S2 @ic2s2.bsky.social
I do think this is a kind of novel problem with our current media environment - Serious people aren't good at making content, they have other things to do, but content is what drives attention. Tastemakers used to highlight the serious people but they're gone, replaced by content creators.
