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tarkowski

@tarkowski@101010.pl

digital sociologist / strategist / activist. Open Future (EU), Communia (EU), Creative Commons (World), Centrum Cyfrowe (PL)

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openfuture, to opensource
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We are about to kick off a campaign that sums up our critical engagement with the term “openness”. Every Wednesday for the next 10 weeks, we will be sharing resources on where #OpenMovement currently stands 📬 Looking forward to your feedback!

#OpenAccess #OpenEducation #OpenSource #OpenData #OpenWeb

tarkowski,
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@hamishcampbell

thanks for sharing your #4opens framework. We're interested in this kind of approaches, that conceptualize openness as an approach that cannot be reduced to a single move (like licensing).

We've been exploring them based on the assumption that there is still room for traditional, vanilla open approaches - but also increasingly stronger forms of governing the commons are needed.

By the way, I think that a lot of open projects (be it open source development, or collaborative content production, citizen science, etc. are actually based on quite complex open frameworks, but only parts of them (licensing in particular) are well structured / codified and made legible - a lot of the other stuff is undefined / invisible.

@openfuture @witchescauldron

tarkowski, to ai
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Good new piece from Tech Policy Review arguing that #AI regulation should build on frameworks for social media regulation. Instead of inventing the wheel anew.

The piece focuses on the US context - so it's worth to translate these ideas into European context, where connections are increasingly made between #AIAct and the #DSA. Ideas about platform responsibility and regulation, especially around systemic risks, can be translated into the #AI debate (and this is actually happening).

This, by the way, is an interesting case of policymakers being quite agile. Regulation is criticised for being too slow - here there's a chance for quite an adaptive approach.

https://techpolicy.press/to-move-forward-with-ai-look-to-the-fight-for-social-media-reform/

tarkowski,
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@mlinksva Mike, you are right, the take on development (something that I know much less about than you do) is wrong, and simplifies the dynamics introduced in this space by open source(ish) approaches. I focused on the argument which I find interesting, and which you comment in 3/ - that there are similarities (and possibly also connections) between AI and social media. Basically, it would be good to have clarity which AI platforms will most probably be structurally similar to existing platforms ("social media").

tarkowski, to ChatGPT
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The term „chatGPT” has been among the top 10 viewed #Wikipedia entries in the last 3 weeks. This is interesting in many ways. Especially that “AI” is not on the list. It’s #chatGPT that people want to know about, the mysterious acronym. #AI is either not on their minds - despite all the media and industry hype - or it is like magic, not to be investigated. ChatGPT is a pretty bad name, as far as names go, and it’s getting normalised quickly (but not yet commodified)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Wikipedia_Signpost/2023-05-22/Traffic_report

tarkowski, to random
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"Jim @openfuture.

And the quote is from a foreword to a recent conversation between Jim Lovelock and Hans Ulrich Obrist, published by Isolarii.

https://www.isolarii.com/forewords/gaia-polycrisis-tim-lenton

tarkowski,
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and then this quote, which connects the information crises with the global polycrisis:

"Thirdly, we need to revisit the flows of information—or lack of them—in our societies. For the products and services we enjoy, we should be able to easily see their impact on Gaia (let alone other people). But currently we are living in a realm of restricted information flows where data is increasingly monetized merely to try to sell us more things with which to impact Gaia."

ianrosewrites, to random

People in security and computing have been saying for years - there's no cloud. There's just someone else's computer.

Right now, there's no AI. There's just someone else's work.

Stop calling generative text and image programs AI. It's inaccurate and insulting. They are just the evolution of corporate creative theft that's been going on as long as media corporations have existed.

tarkowski,
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@ianrosewrites i agree with your point, but it gets tricky if you want to do advocacy on regulation. The European Act is on „AI”, it becomes convoluted to call it something else in policy debates

mimsical, to random
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Could using AIs -- like ChatGPT, Bard, Bing -- to help us write emails, ads, presentations, essays and the like subtly influence us to adopt the biases of those AIs?

New research says "yes"

1/

https://www.wsj.com/articles/chatgpt-bard-bing-ai-political-beliefs-151a0fe4

tarkowski,
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@mimsical in general, stuff we read subtly influence us. So in a way, this is not something new. What I think is new is the scale and consistency with which a single model, with its biases (or more generally, viewpoint) might influence broad swathes of people

tarkowski, to random
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Hello #Berlin.

I’m at a workshop on the future of the digital commons, and across the street from the workshop space I bump into a #CC licensed building.

If you had to license a communal, squatted space, which one would you use? Non-Commercial, No Derivatives turns out to be a pretty smart choice

tarkowski, to random
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@ainali hi Jan this is Alek from Open Future. I would be keen to learn your views on wiki enterprise and „wiki ai”. Maybe you would have time for a short call at the end of the week?

irwin, to random

Are we still in the "One Social Network/Microblogging Service to Rule Them All" mindset?

tarkowski,
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@irwin a good question to ask ourselves here, regularly. Even if it’s not “one to rule them all” situation, there’s a strong “who’s gonna win” vibe. Which does not fit well with the decentralised / interop principles of this (and other spaces).

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