Pluralistic: I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine (29 Jan 2024)

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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine: The Mechanical Turk would like to have a word with all of us.
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Pluralistic: The real AI fight (27 Nov 2023)

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The real AI fight: Effective Accelerationists and Effective Altruists are both in vigorous agreement about something genuinely stupid.
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How the Writers Guild sunk AI’s ship

No one’s gonna buy enterprise AI licenses if they can’t fire their workers.

A wrecked, listing, rusting tanker whose side is emblazoned with the menacing red eye of HAL 9000 from Stanley Kubrick’s ‘2001: A Space Odyssey.’ In the foreground, a woman dressed in a natty 1930s skirt-suit holds a WGA picket sign that reads, ‘I asked ChatGPT to write a sign and it SUCKED.’” — Cryteria/CC BY 3.0 (modified)

After a grinding, 148-day strike, the Writers Guild of America ran the table, conceding virtually nothing and winning virtually everything.

The most consequential outcome will be data on streaming viewership. For the studios, these numbers are state secrets, revealed on a need-to-know, burn-before-reading basis, even within the studios themselves.

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Pluralistic: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble (09 Mar 2023)

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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "Twiddler" (27 Feb 2023)

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Podcasting "Twiddler": What makes digital platforms so enshittification prone?
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Pluralistic: 09 Oct 2022 $100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck

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$100 billion later, autonomous vehicles are still a car-wreck: The self-driving car fraud was great business for Uber and Tesla.
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Pluralistic: 28 Jul 2022

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Your computer is tormented by a wicked god: Bootkits are why we can't have nice things.
Peter Thiel's evil, but he's not an "evil genius": How to criticize self-mythologizing villains.
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Pluralistic: 22 Apr 2022

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Don't believe Obama's Big Tech criti-hype: They're not evil geniuses (they're not geniuses, period).
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Pluralistic: 30 Sep 2021

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Facebook thrives on criticism of "disinformation": They'd rather be evil than incompetent.
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Pluralistic: 11 Apr 2021

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Google's short-lived data-advantage: Don't believe the criti-hype.
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