On the web's 35th birthday, there are two issues to address: power concentration, which contradicts decentralization, and exploitation of personal data
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OpenAI, Microsoft, Meta, Google, Amazon, Anthropic, and Inflection make voluntary AI promises to the White House, like cybersecurity investment and watermarking
White House Pranav Dixit / Business Today : OpenAI, Google, Meta, Amazon and others pledge to watermark AI content for safety Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : White House secures AI safety commitment As...
Investigation shows how dubious Twitter accounts with cultish followings can cause sudden surges in trading for penny stocks after endorsing them
followed by lulls — often encouraged by social media accounts with cultish followings https://www.ft.com/... Ingrid / @ingridlunden : Big can of worms here. ‘Dubious Twitter accounts with cultish foll...
The rise of TikTok, Clubhouse, and Substack shows that social networks have gotten competitive again, amid antitrust pressure on Facebook from the US government
Casey Newton / Platformer : Tweets: @caseynewton , @ingridlunden , @s8mb , @sarthakgh , and @hamishmckenzie Tweets: Casey Newton / @caseynewton : TikTok, Clubhouse, Substack, Dispo: the consumer inte...
New mathematical model-based research suggests that exposing US social media users to viewpoints different than their own furthers political polarization
Mathematicians are teaming up with political scientists to create models of how social media divides us, and results suggest at least … Tweets: @mims , @ingridlunden , @mims , @somospostpc , @rjcc , @...
Skeptics say the effectiveness of online ads is misleading because the benchmarks marketers use don't distinguish people buying from ads and those buying anyway
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Skeptics say the effectiveness of online advertising is overhyped since ad marketers optimize ever more for people who would have bought anyway
Mel Karmazin, the president of Viacom, one of the largest media conglomerates in the world, walked into the Google offices in Mountain View, California. Tweets: @frolleinjune , @wolfiechristl , @radio...
A look at Grover, an AI system that is skilled at writing convincing fake news on myriad topics, which researchers created in order to reliably detect fake news
“To know your enemy, you must become your enemy.” — One of the biggest problems in media today is so-called “fake news,” … Tweets: @allen_ai and @ingridlunden Tweets: Allen Institute / @allen_ai : “...
An in-depth analysis of social media platforms through the lens of social capital theory and why we should think of them as “Status as a Service” businesses
Editor's Note 1: I have no editor. — Editor's Note 2: I would like to assure new subscribers to this blog that most my posts are not as long as this one. Tweets: @eugenewei , @ingridlunden , @sriram...
Twitter execs lash out after Facebook calls service “Social Media” in trending column
Twitter Execs Are Annoyed At Facebook For Referring To Them As “Social Media” — When a Twitter flame war between Wendy's and Burger King last week ended with Wendy's saying it would respond … Tweets...