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Apple, AI, Italian brain rot and #HardFork exercise this morning!
@caseynewton @kevinroose
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@caseynewton And it is my birthday! To kick off the holiday weekend that the nation has graciously offered up to all in honor of this day, I am heading out on my bike for some leisurely riding around town, bakery, breweries - and will have #Hardfork playing in my ears! Have a great holiday weekend, Casey and @kevinroose !
Listen to this #Hardfork episode, good review of GPT-4o and Google I/O , with a good conversation about the dramatic impact it could have when Google starts integrating AI into it's search and how that could potentially destroy or at least diminish ad-revenue on the worldwideweb. People underestimate the possible impact and Google is not honest about it.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/17/podcasts/hardfork-gpt4o-ai-overviews.html
#NYT #AI #GPT #Google #internet #ads #OpenAI #podcast
The New York Times · OpenAI’s Flirty New Assistant, Google Guts the Web and We Play HatGPT
The writing is on the wall.
Actually it's not writing. It's neon letters directly wired to a fusion reactor.
The internet you knew? It's gone. There is no recovering it. There's too much money and incentive behind the idea of making the entire village into a strip mall run by LLMs. Your gardens are forfeit.
I don't know if a #hardfork is possible, but even if it isn't, we gotta get to work building the intentional, human web. The one that rejects generative content, the one that verifies humanity through mutual trust, the one that takes privacy and safety of our neighbors as the highest value.
There are many tools available, but united effort must join together around them. Carefully, intentionally, we have to start moving what matters away from the polluted land.
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@ Taylor 
In one sense, Rochko has won, namely the firm tie between "Fediverse" and "Mastodon".
My estimation is that about every other Mastodon user thinks that the Fediverse is only Mastodon, at least when it comes to being non-corporate and actually decentralised. And this actually includes people who have escaped from Twitter immediately after Musk had bought it out, i.e. they've been on Mastodon for a year and a half already. So the only two ways to have another free, open-source, non-corporate, non-commercial, decentralised project in the Fediverse seem to be either to fork Mastodon or to develop one from scratch.
Most of the rest is so firmly tied to Mastodon's UI and Mastodon's UX and Mastodon's way of doing just about everything that, even if they knew what else the Fediverse has to offer right now, they couldn't use it because it doesn't look and feel like Mastodon. Even if about 98% of them use Mastodon through a mobile app.
I mean, why else is hard-forking Mastodon such a huge topic, and moving from Mastodon to Akkoma or the Forkeys or (streams) or something else isn't a topic at all?
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Fork #HardFork
@ Taylor In one sense, Rochko has won, namely the firm tie between "Fediverse" and "Mastodon".My estimation is that about every other Mastodon user thinks that the Fediverse is only Mastodon, at least when it comes to being non-corporate and actually decentralised. And this actually includes people who have escaped from Twitter immediately after Musk had bought it out, i.e. they've been on Mastodon for a year and a half already. So the only two ways to have another free, open-source, non-corporate, non-commercial, decentralised project in the Fediverse seem to be either to fork Mastodon or to develop one from scratch.
Most of the rest is so firmly tied to Mastodon's UI and Mastodon's UX and Mastodon's way of doing just about everything that, even if they knew what else the Fediverse has to offer right now, they couldn't use it because it doesn't look and feel like Mastodon. Even if about 98% of them use Mastodon through a mobile app.
I mean, why else is hard-forking Mastodon such a huge topic, and moving from Mastodon to Akkoma or the Forkeys or (streams) or something else isn't a topic at all?
#Long #LongPost #CWLong #CWLongPost #FediMeta #FediverseMeta #CWFediMeta #CWFediverseMeta #Fediverse #Mastodon #NotOnlyMastodon #FediverseIsNotMastodon #MastodonIsNotTheFediverse #Fork #HardFork
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Mima-sama Tbh I'm not enthusiastic about a #Mastodon #hardfork. Not necessarily because of the #techdebt or even because it's technically inferior to other #ActivityPub implementations (which are both true), but because I cannot be sure if that new fork is going to adopt the same attitude as Mastodon in choking the rest of the #fediverse with its proprietary extensions and #EmbraceExtendExtinguish / #EEE.
I'd rather not have the uncertainty. Either start from scratch like #GoToSocial is doing or help the other two mainstream AP families which are #Misskey and #Pleroma. That's the only way we can ensure no implementation overwhelmingly dominates the fedi. :seija_coffee:
#fediversemeta
RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/jenniferplusplus/statuses/112355187216928083
Hachyderm.ioJenniferplusplus (@jenniferplusplus@hachyderm.io)If in-place upgrades aren't the goal, then just build something new. Or contribute to one of the various preexisting projects. Don't adopt mastodon's tech debt for no reason. It's not worth it.
I know I'm eager to have more help, if existing projects suddenly sound better.
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Another podcast by the NYT, Hard Fork, covered the same story a few days ago with full disclosure at the start of the story and a more balanced, thoughtful, and funny approach.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/12/podcasts/ai-training-data-privacy-tiktok.html
Thanks #HardFork and @caseynewton
The New York Times · ‘Hard Fork’: A.I.’s Data Wall, a Surprise Privacy Bill, and What Happened to the TikTok Ban?
I really am enjoying #hardfork podcast by @caseynewton and Kevin Roose.
Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria - Tigran Gambaryan, a former crypto-focused US federal agent, and a second Binance executiv... - https://www.wired.com/story/binance-top-investigator-detained-nigeria/ #business/blockchainandcryptocurrency #security/securitynews #security #hardfork
WIRED · Binance’s Top Crypto Crime Investigator Is Being Detained in Nigeria
I'm a big fan of the Hard Fork tech news podcast. If you haven't listened to it before, I recommend giving it a try.
#Hardfork is a podcast worth listening, balanced views on #AI and #Technology brought with humor.
https://open.spotify.com/episode/7mWCe1iMB1X2hX35FWW6QQ?si=7lEvLAHVR0uAzOeoFrvaMQ
SpotifyCasey Goes to the White House + The Copyright Battle Over Artificial Intelligence + HatGPTListen to this episode from Hard Fork on Spotify. President Biden’s new executive order on artificial intelligence has a little bit of everything for everyone concerned about A.I. Casey takes us inside the White House as the order was signed.Then, Rebecca Tushnet, a copyright law expert, walks us through the latest developments in a lawsuit against the creators of A.I.-image generation tools. She explains why artists may have trouble making the case that these tools infringe on their copyrights.And finally, it’s time again for HatGPT. We get a taste of the tech headlines you may have missed from the week.Today’s guest:Rebecca Tushnet, professor of law at Harvard Law School.Additional reading:Casey’s debrief on his trip to the White House.Kevin’s breakdown of the executive order.A judge found many of the claims in a lawsuit against Stability AI, Midjourney and DeviantArt to be “defective.”
"All gas, no brakes" is an excellent summary of all the AI developments and news this week, the #Hardfork #podcast gives a good summary. The letter which called for a "pause" in the development of AI seems like a joke and a long long time ago... #AI
https://spotify.link/7P38ZcxyuDb
From this week's #HardFork: US vs #google.
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/casey-v-kevin-on-us-v-google-walter-isaacson-on-two/id1528594034?i=1000627978267
@caseynewton mentioned (17:50) that he's looking forward to when "...zero new meaningful search engines are created."
Q 2 Casey: have u tried #Ecosia? It's NFP, dedicating profits to help save Earth. I switched months ago and rarely (if ever) rely on Google & always find what I am looking for.
Remember, "Do no evil"?
I am really enjoying the Hard Fork podcast after listening to it for a few months. It's a sometimes light and fun look at serious issues around the tech industry. The hosts share their opinions and one of them is advocate for the Fediverse, the other host is less enthused.
The hard fork with Ethan Mollick about AI and teaching inspired this. Very good show.
Friday mornings... I hope to find a new episode of #HardFork but then have to wait till its friday morning in the US.
Look forward to episodes all week!
ps @caseynewton I am more of a 0.9x speed listener, those 3x'ers must be insane ^_^
it is a great deal of disappointment when we see journalists who - in the past - have done decent reporting work posing as spokespersons for companies. I just listened to the episode of the #HardFork #podcast where @caseynewton and Kevin Roose spend twenty minutes explaining what a federated network would be and marveling at the possibility that a federated network is the success or the future for social media. only they do it talking about #bluesky