AI's "human in the loop" isn't: A moral crumple zone, an accountability sink, but not a supervisor.

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Cory Doctorow

2024-10-30 12:46:03

AI's ability to make - or assist with - important decisions is fraught: on one hand, AI can *often* classify things very well, at speed and scale that outstrips the ability of any reasonably resourced group of humans. On the other, AI is sometimes *very* wrong, in ways that can be terribly harmful.

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Pluralistic: AI’s “human in the loop” isn’t (30 Oct 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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Hey look at this

* EU to Apple: “Let Users Choose Their Software”; Apple: “Nah” eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/eu-a…

* The cult of the founders programmablemutter.com/p/the-c…

* Bruno Pontiroli’s Absurd Portraits Highlight Quirky Behavior and Zoological Buffoonery thisiscolossal.com/2024/10/bru…

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#20yrsago @GreatDismal on ObL tape web.archive.org/web/2004101603…

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#10yrsago 100K Hungarians march against Internet tax vice.com/en/article/huge-inter…

#10yrsago Dissecting the arguments of liberal apologists for Obama’s surveillance and secret war https://nationalinterest.org/feature/big-brother’s-liberal-friends-11515

#10yrsago Potato-chip surveillance: once you start, you just can’t stop theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

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#5yrsago The @internetarchive's massive repository of scanned books will help Wikipedia fight the disinformation wars web.archive.org/web/2019103104…

#5yrsago With “OK boomer,” millennials are killing intergenerational resentment nytimes.com/2019/10/29/style/o…

#5yrsago Facebook sues notorious spyware company NSO Group for 1,400 attacks on diplomats, journalists, dissidents, and government officials reuters.com/article/us-faceboo…

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#5yrsago The First Scarfolk Annual: a mysterious artifact from a curiously familiar eternal grimdark 1970s memex.craphound.com/2019/10/30…

#1yrago Zuck's gravity-defying metaverse money-pit pluralistic.net/2023/10/30/mar…

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Yesterday's threads: Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2024-10-29 19:52:57

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: Conspiratorialism as a material phenomenon; and more!

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