There’s a good chance we’re headed into a negative loop in which genAI creates slop that is custom-tailored for recommender AI systems to go viral, creating stronger incentives to create more slop — and all the while drowning out human-created as well as higher-quality content. Which we need, because participation and democracy needs us to have good info.
Compelling piece from 404 Media about the accelerating crisis in education driven by AI: Teachers Are Not OK.
We’re staring down a future where students exit education having learnt little but how to write good AI prompts, and then disguise the fact that’s what they did.
Well, I loved that season of Doctor Who, and hope we get a renewal soon.
I refuse to let the wave on online negativity around this show rob me of the genuine enjoyment I get from it.
Honestly, the fact that they haven’t released Dugga Doo as a single to streaming is just leaving money on the table.
Mozilla is killing Pocket. Dammit.
Time to see how well micro.blog imports laaaaaarge Pocket libraries…