“Facts are irrelevant to the truth of the experience OpenAI sells, which is grounded in the fantasy of having someone you can always talk to and boss around without having to worry about managing their performance. The chatbot performs “assistance” in a way that makes its actually doing anything more and more beside the point” https://robhorning.substack.com/p/empires-of-modern-passivity
@FrankPasquale Thank you for the link. A very interesting read about #TikTok, #OpenAI and the #Instagramization of life. I like "experience of parasociality" as a description of this "society of the spectacle". In the future, we will have even greater problems with loneliness.
His keynote will focus on "Intelligent Interfaces", where he explores new forms of #interaction enabled by #sensing technologies such as sound, light, electric fields, radio waves and #BioSignals.
Social-media conversations would be so much easier if people read what is written and respond to that, instead of posting a response they have already decided based on what they know, believe, perceive, and assume, all of which they seem to do based on who they are replying to instead of what they are replying to.
In essence, instead of a dialog, we get a bunch of simultaneous monologs, criticisms, dumb downs, put downs, and suck ups. 😤
Since it's the last day of 2023, I'm going to share my Mastodon circles. These are the circles of people that interact most with myself and my posts here on the platform, so THANK YOU to all of you amazing people that I'll tag below!
Hey, it's Christmas time... and if you are like me, rejoicing in it has severe limits. But nonetheless, I wrote this fun poem (#free to #read ) you might want to check out to cheer up your Christmas experience (content warning - murder mystery, blood):
Bluesky for Journalists: On Bluesky, journalists and news organizations can self-verify by setting their website directly as their username. For example, some newspapers’ handles that already exist on Bluesky include @nytimes.com, @washingtonpost.com, and @npr.org.
A lot of accounts appearing on the fediverse, mainly from @Mastodon.Social that are following a lot of people, have few to no followers and zero toots.
This is a classic twitter behaviour to building an account, and it really jars to see it being done on the fediverse which is more social.
I accept that some accounts will have few followers/following when starting out, but at least toot a bit as you build up a following. #fediverse#socialnetworking#accounts#users#interaction#community