Notices by Océane (oceane@peculiar.florist)

@nixCraft I'm concerned about the use of AI to manipulate people at the OS level. It's interesting you mention Zuke's website because my partner and I have witnessed, during the lockdown, that the curated feed of Facebook was showing us contents following the cycle of abuse – honeymoon phase, tension building, acute violence.

Zuke was using AI to hurt people before OpenAI was a thing.

@nixCraft I wish I knew about this page a decade ago.

@me And there's this slight difference that even though Mastodon does optimize for engagement (it's called “biopower” btw), it doesn't prevent its users from clicking on external links as much as capitalistic “social” media do, so we tend to connect at least slightly more directly to their online shops, they can add external links to posts anyway without having them being hidden by the algorithm.

I'm going out on a limb and say that the difference here is that significantly more people in proportion can click on external links without fearing to waste their time.

@me Indeed, artists get the same support here with a tenth of their audience on Instagram because we choose the people we follow, we're responsible for this, so of course we're more committed as a support network – at least for artists, and maybe even more broadly.

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Is it what you used for your small web chat test?