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Dan Gillmor boosted

If you needed another reason why LLMs are problematic, read this.

The problem is that any popularity algorithm can be manipulated. This is something we have seen with search SEO, with social media algorithms and now with LLMs. People will try to manipulate these algorithms for marketing reasons and sadly for more nefarious reasons.

For me, the first step of any solution is to ban user profiling.

https://www.newsguardrealitycheck.com/p/a-well-funded-moscow-based-global

#AI #Politics #SocialMedia


Dan Gillmor boosted

Very pleasant day of talking to family (including talking my parents through setting up Signal, yay), cooking projects, watching a movie (one upside to a shitty weather day), and saying hello to all the crows who apparently migrated back here today.

Mama goats are in the barn for #BabyGoatCountdown (4 days), and my incubator is only running 1 degree cold currently so maybe the #FediverseChickCountdown will still be happening? I'm guessing at least 1 day late (Monday, not tomorrow).