Der Spiegel schreibt: "Gut, dass Merz sein Wahlversprechen bricht. Der künftige Kanzler stellt unter Beweis, dass er die Zeichen der Zeit erkannt hat." Ja, aber die "Zeichen" standen auch schon so, als er noch kurz vor der Wahl jede*n diffamierte, der irgendwie die heilige Schuldenbremse und Sondervermögen ins Gespräch brachte. Die "Zeichen" standen auch schon so, als er weiterhin ein CDU Wahlprogramm pushte, dass den Staatshaushalt mit vielen Mrd EUR Mindereinnahmen belastet. Den Punkt kann man ihm nicht geben. Er wusste vorher, dass seine Wahlkampfversprechen nicht haltbar waren. Das ist kein seriöses Handeln.
We keep seeing this. With Helplines, journalism and other corporations. They roll out the AI and have to walk it back days later cause it's aggressively racist or plain false. Why are we doing this? Why invest all that money in turning the digital sphere into a dump?
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The Los Angeles Times removes its AI-powered "Insights" feature from a column after the tool tried to defend the Ku Klux Klan, just a day after its...
"It is time to admit that all the tropes and rhetoric and conspiracy theories of the so-called free software movement are an impediment to making any actual progress on making positive political change with regards to software." https://r0ml.medium.com/free-software-an-idea-whose-time-has-passed-6570c1d8218a
I wondered who Free Software is actually for. So I did some wrinking (which is writing and thinking at the same time).
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Who is Free Software for?
For a while I have been arguing that maybe there are some issues with the whole “Open*” movements, their founding myths and ideologies ...
With Open Source/Free Software as well as Creative Commons we have build pipelines to contribute to the commons (great!) but we never thought about how to defend those commons against appropriation. That is why Open Source ends up massively benefitting corporations who don't give much back. That is also why Creative Commons has no interest in building more modular licenses that do for example prohibit training "AI" systems. It's the market-liberal idea that if there's a lot of stuff there someone will make some money, someone will fund a startup and that is what everything is about. We've been had.
Remember the failed "Free Our Feeds" campaign that wanted to run a second bluesky relay for a fuckton of money and never got anywhere? Well they now partnered wit a Blockchain company because what their failed idea needed was a slow database. Fucking hell, that's incredibly stupid.
Who Owns the Future of Social Media? A giant leap to decentralize core components of Bluesky
/PRNewswire/ -- Project Liberty and Free Our Feeds are taking a decisive step toward reshaping the digital landscape by securing the long-term dece...
I am super in favor of people working for big tech "to do good from the inside" or "to change them from inside" realizing that you don't change the system, you either leave or you are changed. Sometimes I'd love to see a tracker though: "It took me making 1 million dollars to realize that you can't twist capitalism into something good from the inside" would at least help contextualizing later fundraising.
Auch beim Spiegel zeigt Bodo Ramelow wie klare Kommunikation und Haltung aussehen. "Ich wiederhole mich: Ich habe nichts mit der AfD gemein und lasse mir das von Ihnen auch nicht unterjubeln. Wir werden niemals die Stimmen der AfD einsetzen, um die anderen Demokraten vor uns herzutreiben." https://archive.ph/O1FVi
Über "die Arbeiter" wird in den Medien nur gesprochen, wenn man sie jetzt wegen ihrer Wahlentscheidung (diesmal wirklich erschütternd viel AfD) schelten kann. Über deren Bedürfnisse spricht man einfach nicht.
When I tell people that I don't really use "AI" assistants, "AI" bros will always tell me: Yeah so you can't criticize them because you don't use them, $whateverrandom model I use is awesome and does everything perfectly and you just don't invest the time to find which model under which conditions and prompt works well enough for you. My sweet summer child. If "AI" startups want me to do tests on their products, they can ask me for my daily rates and I'll do it. But I don't work for free to try to be their PR person. I argue from structural reasons, reasons that don't change just cause someone massaged their prompts better or trained their network for some benchmark. What a ridiculous idea: You don't drink every day? How can you criticise alcoholism? The Vodka I drink every day makes me smarter. Sure thing.