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Meiselas: Katie Miller has been posting about you. I want to give you the opportunity right now to respond. What do you want to say to her?
Paulina Mangubat, Content and Creative Director for @TheDemocrats: I want Katie Miller to know that her husband is an ugly fuck.
Being a woman on the internet is a special kind of hell. Someone is paying big accounts to use my face and aspects of my identity to advertise fetish content. We have laws against this in the UK and I still canโt do anything to get these posts taken down. Reporting doesnโt work.
Is there a future forย social media?
@BridgetMarie has an answer: decentralized platforms. Where you choose your algorithm and no one person controls your feed.
Full episode with @rabble out now.
NEW: An @ij review of media reports has identified at least 14 recent cases of police officers allegedly using Flock and other automated license plate reader systems to stalk wives, girlfriends, exes, and even strangers who caught their eye in public.
Major update.
Flock CEO Garett Langley was privately apologizing for what the company defended in public, according to his emails with Dunwoody, GA Mayor.
This email from 10 days ago reveals the CEO apologized for Flockโs โpoor judgement.โ
The person delivering your Grubhub order may not have actually been working for Grubhub.
Streetsblog found that Grubhub subcontracted to another app called Relay to skirt paying NYC's delivery minimum wage to those workers.
Here's @sophlebo with more:
One of the scariest parts of AI? ๐ฐ
Who (or what) gets left out.
As a result, LLM outputs are heavily skewed toward the perspectives and content most common in their training data and the people who supervise them.
Which is almost always an absolutely terrible thing.
So, who gets written out of the AI future? And how do we fix it?
Join us to find out.
Who Gets Written Out of the AI Future? An Everyday AI Chat with Jordan Wilson and @mozilla 's @BridgetMarie