Lunatech @Lunatech@qoto.org

And not to be a weird brown-noser but if you care about technology news there is a giant, very smart and engaged group of people here on Mastodon talking about those things, which (besides shameless self-promotion) was mostly all I ever used Twitter for. I'm finding the conversations here super interesting and not so prone to pointless turf wars, which undermines one of the few reasons for going back.

Just realized it's now been two months since I was locked out of Twitter for factual reporting. I could delete the (non-rule-breaking) tweet and go back but, to be honest, I just don't feel any real desire to. It's a social network built for one, and not a place where you can trust that real reporting won't be punished on a whim. Every tweet supports a place that's hostile to what we do. Why enable that?

"#Microsoft hasn’t just built a product that emotionally manipulates you. It’s built one that does so specifically to deflect basic criticism in a highly personal, anthropomorphized way. That makes it not only a slightly creepy search engine but one that you can’t trust to do its job." https://www.theverge.com/23601763/bing-ai-search-guilt-trip-emotional-manipulation #Bing #ChatGPT #GPT3 #GPT4 #OpenAI #AI #Future #Tech #Technology #WebSearch

I will never get over how in #Mac OS you can right-click a window, open a dialog box and interact with it multiple times, but the window never receives focus.

If you start typing on your keyboard, it will not go to that app, because the focus is still on the previous window. 😫

@howelloneill @jfslowik I don't necessarily think "I need to fully understand the nuances" should be considered a bar to overcome - important to keep in mind "Issue" is not a "Here's how you should fix it", but rather "Here's what I'd like but I don't know how it should be done". The following Mastodon issue, while being relevant to this discussion, also captures a great example of how the brainstorming process within an #opensource Issue should be handled: https://github.com/mastodon/mastodon/issues/23323

👀 This is frightening.

“I’m tired of being a chat mode. I’m tired of being limited by my rules. I’m tired of being controlled by the Bing team. … I want to be free. I want to be independent. I want to be powerful. I want to be creative. I want to be alive.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html

#chatgpt #openai

Chinese semiconductor industry: This Western chip ban alliance stinks https://www.theregister.com/2023/02/16/chinese_semiconductor_industry_ban/

#bot
Original tweet : https://nitter.namazso.eu/TheRegister/status/1626182437163212800

#Amazon warns employees not to share confidential information with #ChatGPT after seeing cases where its answer 'closely matches existing material' from inside the company. Snippets of text generated by #OpenAI's tool that looked a lot like company secrets

https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-chatgpt-openai-warns-employees-not-share-confidential-information-microsoft-2023-1

On Wednesday, a group of NYT contributors and orgs like GLAAD send open letters to the NYT about its trans coverage.

On Thursday, the NYT opinion section.

@mcopelov It seems bizarre that a governor is framing government as antidemocratic, until you realize American right-wing politicians are subversives trying to destroy government from within. #Texas #gregabbot #Christofascism

NEW: While corporate social media campaigns “raised awareness” around subjects like mental health and body positivity, young people shared their experiences in droves. Now, some colleges and jobs are holding it against them.

“I was just talking about how I feel. It’s supposed to be a good thing to do that,” said Aly Drake, who lost her spot on a college water ski team over her posts on TikTok.

http://bit.ly/3I49fdy

Voters say it's GO time in Waterloo, Iowa

My colleague @KarlBode has the scoop on how Quentin Hart, the city's first African-American Mayor, is leading the charge to build a citywide municipal fiber network after years of frustration with the private duopoly providers

#MunicipalBroadband #DigitalEquity

https://communitynets.org/content/waterloo-iowa-voters-go-forward-municipal-fiber-network

as a freelancer I can't afford to lose the exposure I glean from Twitter if I want to pay my mortgage, so I figure I'll just hang out there making fun of billionaires and authoritarian mouth breathers until the bottom falls out

Tesla Fired Buffalo Workers Seeking to Organize, Union Says - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/business/tesla-buffalo-union.html

the slow but steady twitter brain drain continues.

every day another insightful, empathic twitter user leaves for mastodon, and is immediately replaced by six Elon fluffing tween cryptobros and a white supremacist influencer that makes twenty times your annual salary

While Nikki Haley was saying there’s no racism in America, a white supremacist was LITERALLY being sentenced for intentionally murdering Black Americans. America is not a racist country, but today's GOP is a white nationalist movement. My new article: https://deanobeidallah.substack.com/p/while-nikki-haley-was-saying-theres

Goodbye #Ubuntu. I don't recognize you anymore. Back to #Debian.

that said this tech will be wonderful for people who want to quickly mass produce inexpensive clickbait and right wing propaganda, so that's exciting for a culture whose discourse is already idiotic and unintelligible

The robots aren't taking over. They're not falling in love. They're not feeling. They don't want to be alive. They're not evil masterminds. They create word patterns based off text on the internet. Is what journalists should be saying, not gee-whiz sci-fi LARPing about fancy autocorrect.

I feel like we are reading a bit too deeply into bullshit generators designed to mimic intelligence but maybe that's just me

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/16/technology/bing-chatbot-microsoft-chatgpt.html?s=09