@lisabortolotti@ethics@philosophy The curiosity contributrion sounds interesting more generally. Too bad busy people seldom have cognitive-emotional space for such.
Eitenberger's part touches personally; with AD I have had to study neurology to get rid of the credibility deficit. AlzForum, e.g., functions as my backrest in interactions with specialists (though I have to write something down in advance).
FWIW I suggest the #Element app for Matrix. It has both a web version and an "app" (mobile/Windows/macOS/iPadOS/etc.) version. You can preview our main room here:
Realized a lot of people think of Minimum Competence primarily as a newsletter, I think. It is also a #podcast. If you like #legal and #law#news, give it a shot. Episodes are daily (M-F) and usually in the vicinity of 10 minutes.
Hosted by me and @gina. We're proud of it and hope you enjoy it.
Hey #lawfedi folks, haven't sent out the bat-stodon signal in a bit. We're over here at esq.social, an instance open to any #law or #legal-adjacent professionals, or those that maintain an interest.
If you're on a general-interest instance and have any designs on moving to a Local Timeline that speaks your language, give us a look. We'd be excited to have you.
Any questions or help required, shoot me a message. We have about 500 users, ~120 of which are regularly active.
Here is an interesting piece about some possible impacts that AI might have on online communities.
Shown here is one that I feel has been a problem for many years:
"... everything new posted online is created by a machine or by someone looking to turn a profit."
Although I do occasionally find other voices online, big social media has been very effective in silencing too many of them. Their algorithms-tuned-for-profit and use of dark patterns has made it increasingly difficult to hear the helpful voices over the ugliness and nonsense.
And we've allowed them to improperly use Section 230 as a shield to protect them from responsibility for the harms they have knowingly created.
Generally, since there is no duty to host all voices, I don't thinknthere will be a solution to this within the constraints of 1A. Being able to be selective and even biased about removing people from one's service is generally 1A protected.
🤯 Law firm Morgan & Morgan convinces USPTO to revive '#LAW' trademark bid
"[Morgan & Morgan] said that the relevant public perceives #LAW as 'both a mnemonic / vanity telephone number ... and as the source of legal services and legal referral services provided by Morgan & Morgan.'"
⭐ This last article includes a quote from Chris Messina, the originator of hashtags for social media:
"... trademarks don’t belong on hashtags. Hashtags are a kind of conversational commons, and should be owned by no one but the crowd.”
@ianbradbury@gulovsen@paninid@law in my experience this also occurs at very large institutions where the workforce is tech literate. Typically when the IT is so restrictive as to interfere with work. People stop asking permission.
@jsjoshua@gulovsen@nikhileshde@paninid@law Also, when your corporation gets large enough, various business units/departments/whatever want to do things that require ”IT” but they either don’t know how to properly interface with corporate IT or can’t be bothered (which is frequently totally justified due to unresponsiveness, etc.), so they just fund “IT” stuff themselves.
Source: I was a long-time consultant at numerous F500.
Question for fellow #lawyers who practice in the areas of marketing and advertising in the U.S.:
Have there been any enforcement actions arising out of the FTC's Guides Concerning the Use of Endorsements and Testimonials in Advertising that do not involve fraud, e.g., for simply failing to state that a social media post by an influencer was sponsored?
I know they send out warning letters but I have not found anything that resulted in any sort of penalty. TIA
Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.
Here is a statement from a West Virginia Linguistics professor whose entire department has been eliminated. It provides additional context to the Provost's decision to cancel 38 majors and the tenure and untenured faculty lines associated with them.
@Aatube Because, without algorithms, tags and shares are the only way to get posts seen and grow your network. Tags are the lifeblood of Mastodon and sometimes, the #HashtagGames are amusing.
Personally, I don't think they should class towards your letter-count either, but sadly that would be impractical tech-wise.
@Lorry But hashtags like "He" and "VanityFair" probably won't help since nobody would be looking at that. Also while I despise kbin's algorithm for microblogs, I'm pretty sure mastodon has a competent one in my limited experience.
I keep trying them bc they really feel like they ought to be useful, but I'm reminded of a lot of graphical HTML tools which end up requiring so many tweaks that it can be easier to hand code.
The only bit that might be missing from this is the issue of private or proprietary info possibly flowing back into the LLMs? That concerns me with the cloud-based ones.
Data leakage/exfiltration is one, then there's the significant environmental footprint, such as through water usage: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03271.pdf
LLMs also pose a cyber security risk, since one can "poison" the model during fine-tuning, esp. if you use user input for training: https://softwarecrisis.dev/letters/the-poisoning-of-chatgpt/ Internet-enabled LLMs have additional vulnerabilities.