kevinriggle.bsky.social
Principal @ http://complexsystems.group. I keep people safe on the internet (trying). Looking at the world with an “anarchist squint” 🏳️🌈 @ [email protected]
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this is just a basic ux read, my ontological/epistemic/political economy thoughts are not ready for prime time right now. but even just at the ux/average user level, chatgpt is a _wildly_ irresponsible product deployment and i know this is not news, im just continually surprised at how bad it is.
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Building these systems sounds exhausting.
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Ages ago I read of another story like this where it finally came to the airline's attention because the fake flight attendant was getting too many compliments from passengers
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Washington Post has the same problem - weekend content that actually landed online days ago but is in the print edition today is taking its pre-planned homepage slots. The assassinations are at the top for obvious reasons but come on, cancer feature should get pushed for additional news coverage.
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just a truly shocking amount time, and you absolutely need expert knowledge of the field you are working with it on, and you have to constantly reinforce and police behavioral parameters and run repeated behavior audits.
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one complicated thought: out of the box/on the free tier, chatgpt is a dangerous product for the majority of users, in that it is capable of doing real harm, mostly invisibly. it takes a _huge_ amount of time and effort to resolve into a useful tool and the system basically fights you the whole way.
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The supermarket tabloid-ization of everything
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Something something attention economy
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Although looking at nytimes.com just now there is an awful lot of "weekend content" and a smattering of "breaking news" content and maybe, just maybe, right now the breaking news content is more important than the weekend content and should be expanded so the protests from yesterday still fit
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Although looking at nytimes.com just now there is an awful lot of "weekend content" and a smattering of "breaking news" content and maybe, just maybe, right now the breaking news content is more important than the weekend content and should be expanded so the protests from yesterday still fit
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Turns out no, they got a lot of coverage even from NYT
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The one exception is the Minnesota Star-Tribune which gave its entire front page over to coverage of the shootings. Otherwise the protests dominated
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That's either a very tight, very well-written book or the kind of book where all the meat is contained in the first two chapters and I get bored and distracted and wander away after two hours.
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And the comparison is a book that can be read in two hours! That is not a long book!
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Also your fucking AI toy can't do any of this shit, you're lying like a three-year-old telling the preschool teacher you went to a magic treehouse in the sky for your birthday.
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Oh I forgot about that, thank you for reminding me
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lol lmao even
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Protesting is hungry work!
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Which is to say that it is my opinion that no one should ever feel guilty with not keeping up with the news. I can't even keep up with my own reporting.
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Fascinating. I’ll have to investigate more
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I just moved here from CA and we seem not entirely free of the dysfunctions I saw in CA but still soooo much more functional
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Oh interesting. From what funding sources I wonder
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And this is self-critique as much as anything, frankly, I make the mistake of imprecision on this more often than I should.
But yesterday was a good reminder that the Democratic party base and the Democratic party leadership are two very different entities.
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Add that to their patronizing belief that the right wing is simultaneously the authentic animal spirit of the people (and therefore beyond disciplining) and a crippling desire to be seen as objective (i.e holding space for the authentic animal spirit of the people) and you end up here
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A similar sighting in Seattle. What a great discovery for science. I wonder what the species range is for pro-democracy dinos?
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begging the Air Force to lean into the joke and just have a bunch of guys scooting around in office chairs for their parade
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the first was the excellent “trans rights or I bites” trex from Sioux Falls quilters, a joy.