Remember: Twitter is Elon's company, he has the free speech and free association right to run it pretty much however he wants and to ban people for petty narcissistic reasons. And we have the right to laugh and point at his ridiculousness and at the free-speech pretenses of his gullible fans.
Keep seeing criticism of Mastodon saying "it's fundamentally difficult to advertise on" and I'm sat here like "good"
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(@SnoopJ@hachyderm.io) (Hachyderm.io)The more I see gushing uncritical praise of machine learning, or worse, completely fabricated accounts of what people think goes on inside machine learning models, the more I worry about what seems increasingly like a literacy problem on the part of users. When people don't understand a technology, they just start making things up that sound like they could be true and which fit their existing biases. What's that gonna look like going forward with stuff like LLMs?
Me 1, Fail2ban 0. Finally!
There are tough sells, and there are tough sells. Selling shares of Twitter at $54.20 today could be grist for a sequel to *Glengarry Glen Ross*.
The idea of an all-knowing computer program comes from science fiction and should stay there. Despite the seductive fluency of ChatGPT and other language models, they remain unsuitable as sources of knowledge. We must fight against the instinct to trust a human-sounding machine, argue Emily M. Bender & Chirag Shah.,
It started as a fringe philosophical theory about humanity’s future. It’s now richly funded and increasingly dangerous
But here we are.
First light kindled, but trying to get a decent picture is too difficult. Happy Hanukah everybody!
So I just read the new Twitter policy on promotion of other social media platforms for free, mostly because I've seen a lot of discussion and wanted to read the entire thing. The following things are true: Elon has the right to do whatever he wants on his private platform, and, this is incredibly dumb and I kind of hope the other socials start blocking Twitter links. And finally, some of the stuff people are doing to get around this is hilarious and I hope Elon has fun playing whackamole.
The incident last week underscored how Elon Musk’s personal concerns can influence his governance of a social media platform used by hundreds of millions of people.
Why You Should Clarify Which Free Speech Value You’re Debating
Oh wow. Twitter has deleted it's social media linking policy page. Look at the pretty 404! https://help.twitter.com/en/rules-and-policies/social-platforms-policy
Elon Musk has used the same playbook at all of his companies from Tesla to SpaceX. Sadly for him, his model will cause Twitter to go down in flames.