RT @Merzmensch: There is interesting vulnerability in video deepfakes that, to date, has been generally overlooked by the security research…

A question I’ve been asking myself for a long time. Then Zipcar came along. It never removed all the friction, but it was a much better experience. Yet, over time, the friction increased.
Then @Virtuo_UK came along, and I stopped renting with any other company (including Zipcar). https://t.co/DdRQETaGHl

This artwork does not exist in real life.

An artificial intelligence created it for me following my instructions.

These #AI-assisted artworks represent the current frontier of what’s possible by combining human creativity and computing power.

What you see is the future. https://t.co/F1koFvgQiQ

4/ That means that we have fewer chances to see that output and fewer chances to provide the validation that many people need.

1/ Many, many people need to know that what they are doing is appreciated. The likes & hearts & claps of social media have provided that validation for years. Not anymore. #AI algorithms have taken that validation away.

2/ Over time, those algorithms have increasingly rearranged the content in our feed to surface only the emotionally banal, feel-good, superficially positive output.

5/ The net result is that there’s an ocean of human beings out there that has something non-banal and valuable to say but feels less and less inclined to say it because they believe that nobody wants to hear it.

That’s not true. And we all losing in this.

3/ There’s no more chronological order and the output produced by the people we’ve chosen to follow in the first place is getting hidden behind suggested and promoted content.

6/ The way social media companies are using #AI to rank content is turning us into drones that say the same things and, eventually, think in the same way.

You have one tool to fight back: stop being a lurker.

7/ Give the people the validation they need when they offer you edgy content that makes you think, that makes you uncomfortable, that goes beyond the ordinary.

Tell the algorithm that you want more than convergence to the middle of the bell curve.