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From #LeavingMeta meeting above, an interesting realization, reflection the #migration process and its difficulties:

(some) users actually like #algorithms.

to give them #content.

coming into an "empty" #network and having to choose yourself can be a turn off.
we d like to see what s "already there."

how to address this?
#starterpacks can go some of the way.
#migration in groups can help.
#social process of moving needs more attention.

it is not a #tech issue.

#algorithms #IsaacNewton

"Although enormously powerful — centuries later, Newton’s method is still crucial for solving present-day problems in logistics, finance, computer vision and even pure math — it also has a significant shortcoming. It doesn’t work well on all functions. So mathematicians have continued to study the technique, figuring out different ways to broaden its scope without sacrificing efficiency.

Last summer, three researchers announced the latest improvement to Newton’s method. Amir Ali Ahmadi of Princeton University, along with his former students Abraar Chaudhry and Jeffrey Zhang , extended Newton’s method to work efficiently on the broadest class of functions yet."

quantamagazine.org/three-hundr

Quanta Magazine · Three Hundred Years Later, a Tool from Isaac Newton Gets an Update | Quanta MagazineA simple, widely used mathematical technique can finally be applied to boundlessly complex problems.
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“While Bambu’s touchscreen and #software does a wonderful job easing newcomers into #printing, #cutting, and #etching, and it’s got more cameras and #algorithms than ever before (including #LIDAR, timelapse, a new nozzle #camera and a bird’s eye camera too), I’m actually finding its basic #3DPrinting modes aren’t as reliable yet as other printers I’ve used.”

#Art / #automation / #Bambu <theverge.com/news/634294/bambu>

bambu-lab-h2d--331A1135
The Verge · The Bambu H2D isn’t just a bigger 3D printer — it’s a laser cutter, pen plotter, and Cricut competitor tooBy Sean Hollister
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On top of banning all Recommender Systems on social media, we must change from being powerless users of Tech giant services into having democratic collective control of algorithms on all services we use!

Tech platform co-ops creating apps and services which users can democratically and collectively control 🙌

"We, the undersigned researchers, affirm the scientific consensus that artificial intelligence (AI) can exacerbate bias and discrimination in society, and that governments need to enact appropriate guardrails and governance in order to identify and mitigate these harms. [1]

Over the past decade, thousands of scientific studies have shown how biased AI systems can violate civil and human rights, even if their users and creators are well-intentioned. [2] When AI systems perpetuate discrimination, their errors make our societies less just and fair. Researchers have observed this same pattern across many fields, including computer science, the social sciences, law, and the humanities. Yet while scientists agree on the common problem of bias in AI, the solutions to this problem are an area of ongoing research, innovation, and policy.

These facts have been a basis for bipartisan and global policymaking for nearly a decade. [3] We urge policymakers to continue to develop public policy that is rooted in and builds on this scientific consensus, rather than discarding the bipartisan and global progress made thus far."

aibiasconsensus.org/

Scientific Consensus on AI BiasScientific Consensus on AI Bias

#latetotheparty #late2theparty #fun #funny #video #short #gag #scetch #joke #jokes
Ja ich weiß die sind schon alt diese Videos, aber der #Youtube #algorithms hat sie halt jetzt erst in meine Timeline gespült und ich bin bestimmt nicht der einzige an dem diese #Schenkelklopfer vorbei gegangen sind. Viel Spaß mit den #SoundGuy #Videos von und mit Kevin James 🍿🎥🎬😂

youtube.com/playlist?list=PLFH

youtube.comBefore you continue to YouTube

"The best way to think of the slop and spam that generative AI enables is as a brute force attack on the algorithms that control the internet and which govern how a large segment of the public interprets the nature of reality. It is not just that people making AI slop are spamming the internet, it’s that the intended “audience” of AI slop is social media and search algorithms, not human beings.

What this means, and what I have already seen on my own timelines, is that human-created content is getting almost entirely drowned out by AI-generated content because of the sheer amount of it. On top of the quantity of AI slop, because AI-generated content can be easily tailored to whatever is performing on a platform at any given moment, there is a near total collapse of the information ecosystem and thus of "reality" online. I no longer see almost anything real on my Instagram Reels anymore, and, as I have often reported, many users seem to have completely lost the ability to tell what is real and what is fake, or simply do not care anymore.

There is a dual problem with this: It not only floods the internet with shit, crowding out human-created content that real people spend time making, but the very nature of AI slop means it evolves faster than human-created content can, so any time an algorithm is tweaked, the AI spammers can find the weakness in that algorithm and exploit it."

404media.co/ai-slop-is-a-brute

404 Media · AI Slop Is a Brute Force Attack on the Algorithms That Control RealityGenerative AI spammers are brute forcing the internet, and it is working.