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Is an ethical social media platform even possible?
I've long been uncomfortable using platforms that have a bad reputation with respect to: Human rights / genocide Disinformation Privacy All three of those can be connected with advertising...
I've long been uncomfortable using platforms that have a bad reputation with respect to:
- Human rights / genocide
- Disinformation
- Privacy
All three of those can be connected with advertising revenue, among other things. When I use platforms that are shady in this regard, I know I'm colluding with them and contributing to the problems they create. So it's been a relief to see new platforms like Tildes emerge, as well as those based on ActivityPub.
But even platforms that don't have overt advertising (Telegram?) do have a problem with hate groups that go unchallenged. And I know that if I was running an instance of an ActivityPub compatible platform such as KBin, I mightn't be able to keep on top of moderating things like disinformation.
So I suppose my question is, where do you draw the line? I've deleted my Twitter and Meta accounts and I'm exploring alternatives, but I'm not sure if I'm going from the darkness to the light, or just into shades of grey.
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An AI-generated image of a Victorian MP raises wider questions on digital ethics
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Addressing equity and ethics in artificial intelligence
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What Ethical AI really means
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The language used to describe AI risks
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Tool safety
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Failures in accuracy, ethics and responsibility with Linus Tech Tips and LMG as a whole
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Apple tests ‘Apple GPT,’ develops generative AI tools to catch OpenAI
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Google is directing searchers straight to troves of nonconsensual deep fake porn, raising legal and ethical concerns
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How we could stumble into AI catastrophe
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As humans, can we make way more ethical and utilitarian use of technology and internet than is currently happening?
Rewind yourself back by about two decades from now when the Berners Lee basic protocols like HTTP and HTML were just being formed and the internet as we know it was just being prepared (those who...
Rewind yourself back by about two decades from now when the Berners Lee basic protocols like HTTP and HTML were just being formed and the internet as we know it was just being prepared (those who weren't born can also visualize it as enough documentation and information exists).
What a world of opportunities it was and what a promising future. It felt you could do almost anything with the help of this new technology, irrespective of your race, gender, caste, creed, religion and even social status.
The promise of the information superhighway was that an ordinary pleb will have as many opportunities as those at the top, isn't it? Do you think that promise has been fulfilled today? Do you think we have made at least decent use (if not the best possible use) of this technology?
Now, I'm not saying everything is in doom and gloom, far from it as computing power has enabled the masses to do lot's of things they could only dream of in the 1990s! Opening your smartphone in the middle of a street and having a video call with a friend was like a fantasy dream in those days (at least for the ordinary pleb).
There are many other great achievements too like cheap hardware which is light years ahead (relatively speaking), apps that let you control all aspects of your lives from finances to health to work in a matter of a few taps.
But on the other hand, we have let a few large entities thrive and create massive monopolies on these very technologies we happen to use. Efforts at open source and digital rights and freedoms took on until about late 2000s but then started fading. Today, we have those very entities which are trying to curb user's freedoms heading and/or controlling organizations like OSI, Linux Foundation, Mozilla Corp., Red Hat, etc. which are supposed to act like stewards of our digital freedoms. The situation today is very gloomy in the sense that many of the digital freedoms that our predecessors fought for are on the verge of getting lost today at the hands of surveillance capitalism and we (as collective society of humans) are responsible for it.
Can we take an oath today to make as much ethical use of technologies like internet as possible? To act in as much a manner as possible that preserves the digital rights and freedoms of the common individual or pleb in the society like you and me?
I believe that's the only progressive and better path for humanity.
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Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI
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If you die in the game, you die in real life
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r/Onlyfans101 mods are currently manipulating tons of NSFW subreddits
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AI and ethical licensing
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The Google engineer who thinks the company’s AI has come to life
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Always remember - The Therac 25 incident
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The Verge is updating their public ethics policy "to be clearer in our interactions with public relations and corporate communications professionals"
11 votes -
Privacy and digital ethics after the pandemic
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We read the paper that forced Timnit Gebru out of Google. Here’s what it says.
19 votes -
The dangerous rise of military AI: Autonomous machines capable of deadly force are increasingly prevalent in modern warfare, despite numerous ethical concerns
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Tech companies are pretending to be on their best behavior: Big tech is watching its step and trying to appear ethical during coronavirus. Don’t be fooled
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Algorithms associating appearance and criminality have a dark past
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The Great Google Revolt: Some of its employees tried to stop their company from doing work they saw as unethical. It blew up in their faces.
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With great tech comes great responsibility - A student guide for navigating ethical issues in the tech industry
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Why do we tolerate Saudi money in tech?
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Silicon Valley's crisis of conscience: the private retreat centers where Big Tech goes to ask deep questions
5 votes -
Is it okay to laugh at Florida Man? What it’s like to go viral as one of the Internet’s biggest memes — and the moral complications of laughing along
11 votes -
The tricky ethics of using YouTube videos for academic research
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How technology hijacks people's minds
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AIs should have the same ethical protections as animals
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Ethics washing made in Europe - Guidelines for AI ethics published by the EU have been too compromised by industry, according to a member of the group who wrote them
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'Bias deep inside the code': The problem with AI 'ethics' in Silicon Valley
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The ethical dilemma facing Silicon Valley’s next generation
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Looking to cancel Amazon Prime for ethical reasons (and quality decline) - what are my alternatives for online shopping?
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international...
For the past few years, I've grown more and more uneasy with Amazon's business practices. I think it's time to move on. Not to mention the declining quality in products since international shippers were added (as discussed in the podcast Reply All).
I'm addicted to the convenience of 2 day shipping, even though we use Amazon less and less, I like knowing I have that option.
I've been considering a Costco membership instead - how does their online shopping and shipping times/prices compare?
I've also considered using Jet more but I don't know much about their ethics, does anyone?
Open to other alternatives and discussion about business ethics here.
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The company behind the Unity Engine has posted their guidelines for building Ethical AI
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Jeff Bezos is wrong, tech workers are not bullies
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Why the NSA called me after midnight and requested my source code
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Kara Swisher: Who will teach Silicon Valley to be ethical?
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The internet apologizes …Even those who designed our digital world are aghast at what they created. A breakdown of what went wrong — from the architects who built it.
32 votes -
Meet the man who test drives sex robots
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Communist robot dreams
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Why computer science students are demanding more ethics classes
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The cautious path to strategic advantage: How militaries should plan for AI
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Shenzhen Tech Girl Naomi Wu: My experience with Sarah Jeong, Jason Koebler, and Vice Magazine
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Engineers say 'no thanks' to Silicon Valley recruiters, citing ethical concerns
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Police facial recognition system faces legal challenge
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On the engineer's responsibility in protecting privacy (Paul Baran, RAND, 1968)
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On the future computer era modification of the American character and the role of the engineer, or, a little caution in the haste to number (1968)
7 votes