Notices by Dare Obasanjo (carnage4life@mas.to), page 3

Going from humans creating content to humans reviewing the output of AI is going to happen slowly then suddenly across many fields.

What happened to humans translators with the rise of Google Translate will be a more common experience.

There’s a myth that social media apps sell your data which isn’t true but is related to the truth. In reality, almost every company you do business with from telcos to grocers to banks sells your info to other businesses.

However until social media, this just meant junk mail.

Social media changed this by going from retail stores sending me physical junk mail about sales because my grocer sold them my info to seeing TikTok ads for T-shirts on sale for similar reasons.

The problem with nostalgia is that you can’t tell if what you experienced was actually good or if you were just young when it happened.

Microsoft has always had a great philosophy around accessibility and introduced me to the idea of temporary disability. It’s a great way to broaden one’s perspective on how much impact making your product more accessible has.

The Turing Test is obsolete because we’ve run out of questions that are both clever enough that a smart computer can’t answer them but still easy enough for a dumb human to figure out.

CAPTCHA is also obsolete. We’ve lost the arms race.

This is a great story of how Barnes & Noble’s new CEO who was hired in 2019 has turned around the company. Sales are up, it opened 16 stores this year and plans to open more next year.

The secret is the CEO really likes books and readers. So he stopped doing deals with publishers to promote their latest books & NYT best sellers and encouraged individual stores to promote books they found most interesting.

So simple yet…

https://tedgioia.substack.com/p/what-can-we-learn-from-barnes-and

The New York Times comes out against encrypted apps like Signal using the classic arguments of terrorism and CSAM but puts their unique anti-tech spin on it by arguing

"Small groups of technologists are developing and deploying applications of their technologies for explicitly ideological reasons, with those ideologies baked into the technologies. To use those technologies is to use a tool that comes with an ethical or political bent."

This has always been the case.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/28/opinion/jack-dorseys-twitter-signal-privacy.html

Using Open Source or Free Software is using a tool that comes with an ethical or political bent.

Using commercial software is also doing the same except that since what you are supporting is capitalism, it's like a fish that doesn't understand the concept of being in water. We don't even notice it.