This week, Newsmax — a far-right news organization with a strong allegiance to President Trump and a history of pushing wild conspiracy theories — announced it had struck a deal with Meta.
More evidence that AI technology isn't neutral. If there's bias in the data it's fed or in how it's designed, it'll mirror that bias. What egregious for Meta dealing with Newsmax is that it’s making no pretense at neutrality. It's deliberately putting its thumb on the scale, and its AI output should be judged summarily by users as unreliable, assuming they even know about this relationship.
Early in the development of computer programming programmers coined the phrase "garbage in garbage out" to describe the fact that if you input flawed, biased or poor quality information, the output will be equally flawed, biased or poor quality information. Feeding people garbage is just part of meta Enshittification.
Wow, we are no longer living in a free society but a brand new one created by a handful of insecure men aka techbros who will do literally anything to keep power and amass billions of dollars. All of my neighbors are on FB and now all of them have been brainwashed and will continue to be confused by reality v fiction. It sure looks like a duck and quacks like a duck but Meta says it's a swan so who am I to argue.
This is horrifying and needs to be shared far and wide. People using these platforms need to be made aware that they are being manipulated. Thank you once again, Judd Legum, for the clarion call.
Such excellent work. But this is hardly new in AI. Ever larger AI LLMs are based on every more rubbish data. Worse, the design of LLM has no concept of accuracy or truth.
That's why no one should use AI for anything other than entertainment.
More evidence that AI technology isn't neutral. If there's bias in the data it's fed or in how it's designed, it'll mirror that bias. What egregious for Meta dealing with Newsmax is that it’s making no pretense at neutrality. It's deliberately putting its thumb on the scale, and its AI output should be judged summarily by users as unreliable, assuming they even know about this relationship.
Early in the development of computer programming programmers coined the phrase "garbage in garbage out" to describe the fact that if you input flawed, biased or poor quality information, the output will be equally flawed, biased or poor quality information. Feeding people garbage is just part of meta Enshittification.
Exactly what I was thinking!
And as LLMs get ever larger, there will ever more garbage
Wow, we are no longer living in a free society but a brand new one created by a handful of insecure men aka techbros who will do literally anything to keep power and amass billions of dollars. All of my neighbors are on FB and now all of them have been brainwashed and will continue to be confused by reality v fiction. It sure looks like a duck and quacks like a duck but Meta says it's a swan so who am I to argue.
This is horrifying and needs to be shared far and wide. People using these platforms need to be made aware that they are being manipulated. Thank you once again, Judd Legum, for the clarion call.
Such excellent work. But this is hardly new in AI. Ever larger AI LLMs are based on every more rubbish data. Worse, the design of LLM has no concept of accuracy or truth.
That's why no one should use AI for anything other than entertainment.
Very important story.
Here, the far-left alternative:
Drew Holden
@DrewHolden360
🧵THREAD🧵
Fauci’s lab leak coverup couldn’t have happened without the help of legacy media.
Do you remember how far outlets went to claim the lab leak was a conspiracy?
I’ve got the screenshots. ⤵️
Do you remember when
@TomCottonAR was repeating a “fringe theory” that “scientists have dismissed”?
An explosive take for the dumb online rubes, right @nytimes?
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2082575467094110360.html?utm_source=pdfs_mailer&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=alert
Every time Fauci was caught on COVID’s origins, he ran to his loyal lapdogs in legacy media to defend him.
Follow along ⤵️
To start, here’s Fauci, privately confessing his origin theory of COVID had been debunked in January 2020.
But Fauci, seemingly, didn’t want people thinking that COVID could’ve come from a lab in Wuhan, China.
So he turned to the legacy media to claim the science was settled.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/2081861427669692750.html
Garbage in, garbage out- a very enlightened, progressive goal. Sure.