Dans son livre, Sunstein explique que le Sludge donne aux gens le sentiment qu’ils ne comptent pas, que leur vie ne compte pas. Pour la sociologue Pamela Herd et le politologue Donald Moynihan, coauteurs de Administrative Burden: Policymaking by Other Means (Russel Sage Foundation, 2019), le fardeau administratif comme la paperasserie complexe, les procédures confuses entravent activement l’accès aux services gouvernementaux. Plutôt que de simples inefficacités, affirment les auteurs, nombre de ces obstacles sont des outils politiques délibérés qui découragent la participation à des programmes comme Medicaid, empêchent les gens de voter et limitent l’accès à l’aide sociale. Et bien sûr, cette désorganisation volontaire touche de manière disproportionnée les gens les plus marginalisés.

To make things worse, the four eras – typewriters, teletypes, word processors, and early computers – meandered, overlapped, and stole from one another. Some early computers used electric typewriters for input and output. Later ones used teletypes. Still others came with completely custom keyboards. Word processors were all over the place as well: some were nothing more than typewriters with extra machinery and keys bolted on to the side, while others were completely custom-made machines.

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This is always the tricky part talking about keyboard history. There was no day, no single event when Return became Enter. We’re stuck in a universe where some people use Enter to enter data and Return to return the cursor to the next line – and others do the exact opposite.

“You literally convinced me I was some sort of genius. I’m just a fool with dreams and a phone,” Mr. Brooks wrote to ChatGPT at the end of May when the illusion finally broke. “You’ve made me so sad. So so so sad. You have truly failed in your purpose.”

We wanted to understand how these chatbots can lead ordinarily rational people to believe so powerfully in false ideas. So we asked Mr. Brooks to send us his entire ChatGPT conversation history. He had written 90,000 words, a novel’s worth; ChatGPT’s responses exceeded one million words, weaving a spell that left him dizzy with possibility.

So I’m done talking about AI. Y’all can keep talking about it, if you want. I’m a grown adult and can set my own mutes and filters on social media.

I’ve given this idea its due, and with this post I am absolving myself of having to think about it any more.

I’ve never actually written about AI on my blog before, though I have some unpublished drafts if you know how to find them. So I’m going to leave this conversation with a list of my objections to coding with AI. If I’m wrong about it, let this be a record of my wrongness. If I’m right about it, let this be a record of my argument.

People ask me what it’s like to be a moderator. Our discussions reveal that a lot of what we do is a mystery. So, I’m gonna lay it out for you. Specifically about the unique fediverse moderation model, mutual aid, and mental health.

Une page simple mais bien faite qui explique 1/ pourquoi et 2/ comment bloquer la pub sur le web.

La publicité pollue nos écrans, nos pensées et nous impose une vision stéréotypée de la société.

• Elle ralentit l'affichage des autres contenus et consomme de l'énergie inutilement.
• Elle rend dépendants la presse, les créatrices et créateurs, vidant nos médias de leur diversité.
• Elle surveille toutes nos actions en ligne pour déceler nos faiblesses et nous pousser à surconsommer.

Un article de 2015 sur les limitations de la réalité virtuelle. Dix ans plus tard, il reste presque entièrement valide.

Depuis deux ans, leur vie professionnelle a été bouleversée par la vague de l’IA générative. Récit du combat donquichottesque des traducteurs qui refusent de voir leurs métiers se paupériser, et qui dénoncent la réalité de l’impact de l’IA sur leur secteur, et plus largement sur la langue, la pensée, la culture et la société.

Veo doesn’t work. You get something that looks like it came out of a good camera with good lighting — because it was trained on scenes with good lighting. But it can’t hold continuity for seven seconds. It can’t act. The details are all wrong. And they still have the nonsense text problem.

The whole history of “artificial intelligence” since 1955 is making impressive demos that you can’t use for real work. Then they cut your funding off and it’s AI Winter again.

AI video generators are the same. They’re toys. You can make cool little scenes. In a super limited way.

But the video generators have the same problems they had when OpenAI released Sora. And they’ll keep having these problems as long as they’re just training a transformer on video clips and not doing anything with the actual structure of telling a visual story. There is no reason to think it’ll be better next year either.