Q&A with Signal President Meredith Whittaker on the clash with Elon Musk, Telegram's Pavel Durov, “dorm room high jinks” of OpenAI's “edge lords”, and more
' I don't think we can have a conversation about disinformation without having a conversation about the role of massive homogenous platforms that have cannibalized … @researchbuzz@researchbuzz.masto.host : “...it really tears the veil on this mythology that you're all serious people at the apex of science building the next Godhead, when it's very clear that the culture is dorm room high-jinks egged-on by a bunch of ‘Yes men’ who think every joke you say is funny, because they're paid to do that … Christine Hall / @BrideOfLinux@mastodon.opencloud.lu : “Massive homogenous social media platforms are incentivized to calibrate their algorithms for engagement because they want more clicks, more ad views, that are incentivized to elevate — content, bombastic content, hyperbolic content, completely false content, right? … X: Simonetta Vezzoso / @wavesblog : “I think banning surveillance advertising would be a very good first step. We would be really cutting at the root of the pathologies that we are dealing with from the tech industry...” easy! Matt Rosoff / @mattrosoff : This is a great interview with a remarkable person: Forums: Hacker News : Signal's Meredith Whittaker on the Telegram security clash