josemurilo

josemurilo, 7 days ago to internet

"porquê é tão difícil avançar rumo a uma #internet mais #transparente e aberta?
@mariafarrell e @robin destacam que existe um espaço quase invisível, mas que detém o poder de definir os rumos da web. Forjados no ambiente das chamadas organizações de desenvolvimento de #padrões (#SDOs na sigla em inglês), os dois pesquisadores afirmam que é preciso se preocupar de forma objetiva, colocando luz sobre quem elabora e toma conta das normas técnicas que regem a internet."
https://outraspalavras.net/tecnologiaemdisputa/a-imprescindivel-refundacao-da-internet/

josemurilo, 7 days ago to ai

"it is good to see a platform standing up against #AI #generativeArt and trying new things. Bravo.
[but]
What we have here is a structure built on exactly the same rules at its core that guarantee a future enshitification: proprietary, closed and centralized.
Sooner or later, #Cara will change, the terms of service will be updated, it could be sold or monetized in a way you don't like."
https://www.davidrevoy.com/article1032/a-critique-of-caraapp-the-no-ai-instagram-and-artstation-copycat-child

josemurilo, 9 days ago to meta

"In a statement about the “precautionary measure”, the #AEPD wrote it has ordered #Meta to suspend implementation of #ElectionDay Information & Voter Info Unit features in #Spain.
The AEPD is using emergency powers contained in Europe’s GDPR—the pan-EU regulation empowers any data protection authority to act where they see urgent risks to users in their own territory."

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/31/spain-bans-meta-from-launching-election-features-on-facebook-instagram-over-privacy-fears/

josemurilo, 9 days ago to random

"For years, we’ve been #doomscrolling. World events have intersected with the maturation of large social platforms, shifting the way we relate in real-time. Very real #collectivetrauma stacks up ever-higher. We’re all together, but we still feel #isolated.

I’ve built my career on the conviction that it does not need to be this way.

It’s exciting to remember that, at any time, we can try something completely different and completely our own."

https://www.uploop.dev/blog/internet-we-want

josemurilo, 12 days ago to random Portuguese

"In the run-up to the European elections in the summer of 2024, we offer seven proposals for policy interventions in support of the #DigitalCommons. Building on the foundations laid by the regulation of commercial platforms over the past five years, the policies presented below aim to strengthen different forms of Digital Commons as building blocks of the European #DigitalPublicSpace."

https://paradox.openfuture.eu/policies/

josemurilo, 12 days ago to random Portuguese

"Though #heat has killed hundreds of people in Maricopa County every summer for the past four years, the idea that heat can be deadly is newly shocking to many decision-makers.

“Every year, we do a dog and pony show to cobble together funding. Heat kills people who aren’t in the social circle of those in charge. And the people in power need to understand that it is through no fault of these vulnerable people that they are at risk.”
#ClimateDiary
https://www.politico.com/news/2024/05/28/americas-hottest-city-phoenix-00158243

josemurilo, 14 days ago to ai

"why let them set the terms to begin with? We can make our own terms! From socially supported #infrastructure that breeds +locally governed applications & communications platforms, to a redefinition—or reclamation—of the concept of #AI, away from the surveillance-dependent #biggerISbetter approach, toward smaller models built with intentionally-created data that serve real social needs."
@Mer__edith
https://www.helmut-schmidt.de/aktuelles/detail/die-rede-der-zukunftspreistraegerin

josemurilo, 14 days ago to mastodon

"Despite its genuine #decentralisation, #Mastodon has implemented a server #covenant that excludes far-right extremists by a purely social process.
This has led to a #darkFediverse that don’t go along with the covenant but still talk to each other. If you want untrammelled #freespeech #socialnetworks, they’re right there!
[But] #Dorsey can’t live without unwilling ears to bash."
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/

josemurilo, 16 days ago to LLMs

"the worst part is that when they [#LLMs] can’t complete a task confidently, they don’t give you an error or tell you they’re unable to finish. They make something up and serve you incorrect information.
…companies like #Google are pretending this isn’t a problem and pushing these systems toward taking over as our phones’ virtual assistants and the brains behind our online searches."

https://www.computerworld.com/article/2117752/google-gemini-ai.html

josemurilo, 19 days ago to random

The "wildest wild card:

The #USCopyrightOffice has repeatedly stated that works made by AIs aren't eligible for copyright, which is the exclusive purview of works of human authorship. This has been affirmed by courts.

…for any company contemplating selling an #AIgenerated work, the fact that it is born in the #PublicDomain presents a substantial hurdle, because anyone else is free to take that work and sell it or give it away."
@pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2023/08/20/everything-made-by-an-ai-is-in-the-public-domain/

josemurilo, 27 days ago to ai

"This idea that there’s a kind of unquantifiable #magicsauce in #AI that will allow us to forgive its tenuous relationship with reality is brought up a lot by the people eager to hand-wave away accuracy concerns. Google,OpenAI,Microsoft dismissed hallucination as a small annoyance that should be forgiven…
But apologies to Sam and everyone else financially incentivized to get me excited about AI. I don’t come to computers for the inaccurate magic of human #consciousness."
https://www.theverge.com/2024/5/15/24154808/ai-chatgpt-google-gemini-microsoft-copilot-hallucination-wrong

josemurilo, 30 days ago to mastodon

"Its structure makes it unlikely to replace Twitter for a user base in the billions…But #Mastodon is also unlikely to go away.
Despite its genuine #decentralisation, it has also implemented a #covenant that does a pretty good job of excluding the far-right extremists by a purely social process — if you keep horrible arseholes on your server, you’re liable to be shunned."
https://davidgerard.co.uk/blockchain/2024/05/10/jack-dorsey-bluesky-decentralised-social-networks-and-the-very-common-crowd/