What Twitter has denied him, by kickinghim off, is attention
digital censorship remains non-discrete because silencing means something about the values of the platform
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The most effective forms of censorship today involve meddling with trust and attention, notmuzzling speech itself.
extremely well put -- censorship is not as literal as it once was before the digital age; it instead involves convincing the public that they have the liberty to control what they do/don't engage with on social media, despite corporate agenda-setting through discrete, targeted content.
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These kinds of messages are to human community whatsalt, sugar, and fat are to the human appetite.
very well put; it is human nature to be drawn to things that fill a void.
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generate increasingly accurate, automated predictions of whatadvertisements we are most susceptible to and what content will keep us clicking, tapping,and scrolling down a bottomless feed.
Corporately spearheaded rather than communistic.
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And sure, it is a golden age of free speech—if you can believe your lying eyes
user-generated content is a double edged sword; yes, any individual's voice can be heard publicly, however, is this unprotected power a threat to reputability?
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the act of using text LLMs-generated and claiming it as their work is referred to as AI-generated plagiarism.
definition of AI as plagiarism
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“No warning—canceled, the hosts let go, thecommunity members left to consider what, exactly, happened to their home (Brown 1999,“Netscape to Community: You’re Evicted”)
despite a seemingly, consumer-centric platform, the real power is still in the hands of the company. The company's decision to shut down a community page goes to show their inconsideration and elitist perspective over their consumers, despite their "community-driven" actions
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The digital age has permitted the public to exercise self-expression (via writing) in a way unimaginable in prior generations.
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interesting dichotomy between a writers attitude in writing for an intended, intellectual audience vs an unintended audience; while writing for the blog, okolloh is focused on capturing her feelings/emotions however, she claims to be introverted when a book opportunity is presented
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then fact-check and revise that draft can be an excellent way to help students practice critical thinking skills.
connect to Antonio Byrd Literacy Crisis piece
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Inboth cases, the benefits are wildly exaggerated
AI's promised innovation only benefits those that bias is in favor of
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“If they want to try something out, they ask us, and we have a decision-makingframework based on our values and our principles,” Jones says.
Maori people were able to surveil and protect their data from big US tech companies by having the power to decide who does/ does not receive access
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Our data would be used by the very people that beat that language out of ourmouths to sell it back to us as a service,” Jones says. “It’s just like taking our land and selling it back tous,” Mahelona adds.
US tech companies have little interest in letting Maori people reconnect with their native customs , but instead, offer this "privilege" at a steep cost
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that they’re tested on those without thechoice to opt out;
good point; everything established on public domain is up for AI "grabs", the user does not get to contextualize or opt-out of their contribution to AI's "knowledge" forum
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If we filter out the discourse of marginalized populations, we fail to provide training data thatreclaims slurs and otherwise describes marginalized identities in a positive light,
filtering out negative perceptions of marginalized groups may create erasure
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“The training data hasbeen shown to have problematic characteristics resulting in models that encode stereotypicaland derogatory associations along gender, race, ethnicity, and disability status,”
in this way, AI is a reflection of the biases in our society so we are to blame
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instead of fighting their way through that and growing from it, they retreat to something thatmakes it a lot easier for them.”
suggests a future of cognitive offloading
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But she’d rather get good grades
suggests a pedagogical flaw; valuing a grade letter rather than the cognitive challenges and experience that it takes to write an essay unassisted
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“I’m against copy-and-pasting. I’m against cheating and plagiarism. All of that. It’s against the student handbook.” Then shedescribed, step-by-step, how on a recent Friday at 8 a.m., she called up an AI platform to help her writea four-to-five-page essay due two hours later.
dissonance in students' anti-AI morality but submitting to it anyways
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“It’s short-circuitingthe learning process, and it’s happening fast.
AI use intercepts critical thinking processes, and is doing so at a exponential rate
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I can write an essay in two hours that normally takes 12.”
many students gravitate towards AI because it is time efficient
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