Posts by timswan@mastodon.social
 (DIR) Post #ASHj9RkZBMQ4tPxjxg by timswan@mastodon.social
       2023-02-02T23:57:15Z
       
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       @lauren I expect that, in the short term, this may boost Twitter’s revenues, since so many for-profit companies have integrated Twitter into their products. But in the long term how could any of these companies ever entrust their future to Twitter?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASSIe2KjAeV119nWaW by timswan@mastodon.social
       2023-02-08T02:22:01Z
       
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       @lauren Isn’t a laptop, tablet, or cell phone just a battery pack with advanced features? Isn’t any one of them as likely as any other to catch fire?
       
 (DIR) Post #ASeFwooPpVhkkOMIds by timswan@mastodon.social
       2023-02-13T20:39:15Z
       
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       @film_girl @davew @simon It’s true that the ability to discern reality from fiction is always important, but for the written word that has traditionally been the role of editors and fact-checkers. When an AI is trained on a corpus of unknown provenance it can be much, much, harder to know what is true.
       
 (DIR) Post #ATNuUcG8QQmIAQRrbk by timswan@mastodon.social
       2023-03-07T21:24:41Z
       
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       @lauren I may be wrong, but spying isn’t the top concern. Manipulating the American electorate using their extensive understanding of users behavior and their (by all accounts excellent) algorithm is more likely what politicians fear.
       
 (DIR) Post #AU3RydUBSXXdrPn996 by timswan@mastodon.social
       2023-03-27T22:23:22Z
       
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       @dave My prediction is that this will massively increase business productivity, thereby concentrating more wealth among the wealthiest, while putting lots and lots of people out of work.