Even when the big platforms themselves suspend or boot someone off their networks forviolating “community standards”—an act that does look to many people like old-fashionedcensorship—it’s not technically an infringement on free speech, even if it is a display ofimmense platform power
This signifies that the old ways of censorship are similar to how it is now. The goal is to stop the spread of an idea or thought, before the entire public gets a hold of it.
Have you received thousands of messages, mentions,notifications, and emails threatening and mocking you? Have you been doxed for yourtrouble? Have invisible, angry hordes ordered 100 pizzas to your house? Did they call in aSWAT team—men in black arriving, guns drawn, in the middle of dinner?
This really suggest the argument against free speech, because people are able to provide consequences in any way that they can. This can cause speech to feel more limited if these instances could be the repercussions.
"I had zero ideas about what to say,"
There is a clear difference between writing essays, and actually writing for an audience. You really have to take into account what people might or how they may perceive your views.
Our digital media timelines, like oral communication, privilege the fleeting present; what we document — words, sounds, images, video — quickly recedes into the past.
It's interesting how digital media can actually relate to such an old concept of communication. However, the similarities are quite prevalent when we understand how quickly messages disappear.
“If these new technologies only speak Western languages, we’re now excluded from the digitaleconomy,” says Running Wolf. “And if you can’t even function in the digital economy, it’s going to bereally hard for [our languages] to thrive.”
This shows that these new technologies aren't very versatile, which won't allow for it to thrive. It needs to function in the digital economy and speak numerous languages for it to be fully effective.
They invoke US fair use the way colonisers invoked divine right, as if legality is just adetail that will sort itself out later.
This is interesting to note, since legality isn't something that can be figured out by itself. This has to be done by government figures who are paying attention to these issues.
One of the reasons for the mischaracterization is the lack of diversity in the datasets — thesystems simply weren’t given enough Black and brown faces to learn how to understandwhat they look like.
This is really interesting to think about since AI only knows what it is given. This ends up making people of color less represented by AI, since they don't have information surrounding these groups of people.
AI will not take over the world because it lacks independent agency, intrinsic motivation, and thecomplex, adaptable reasoning that human beings possess
AI does not have the ability to reason and think like a human does, which makes me believe that AI will not fully take us over at this point.
I don’t run because it’s necessarily fun to do, nor do I run because I’m going to be a professionalrunner
This is a great analogy, because even though we may not like writing essays or want to be really good at it, it is still really beneficial to our future.
Professors and teaching assistants increasingly found themselves staring at essays filled withclunky, robotic phrasing that, though grammatically flawless, didn’t sound quite like a college student —or even a human.
A lot of students think they can get away with this, when it really is so easy to tell the difference.