It does strike me that the ride of systems like ChatGPT et al. blows out of the water any attempt to foster media literacy. At least with standard Goggle search I know what website I ultimately take my information from. Fat chance with these AI systems, just as with Alexa & Co.

Which makes me think that I do need to read up on #epistemicrights as part of #humanrights. Finally time to pick up Lani Watson's The Right to Know?!

@mcc So, no real answer to your direct problem here, but some possibly useful concepts.

I'm not on and am not familiar with Twitter's noise controls so I don't know what applies here.

What you're describing is a basic amplification attack. It operates through replies and tagging. As you note, there's no keyword latch onto for anti-spam actions, but there are other signifiers, and Twitter's anti-abuse / trust-and-safety teams are probably sorting how to deal with this.

(For numerous platforms this is now effectively a machine-learning problem. My understanding is that Google's properties operate this way, and Facebook's largely do as well, which may explain many of the weird behaviours seen from those systems, for which the only thing I can say is that they're likely as confounding to the site's operators as they are to people on the sites, not that that's a good thing...)

What I've seen on other platforms is that notifications can be restricted. On an earlier Google platform (Google+), the ability to comment on a post, and the ability to generate notifications could both be set to specific sets of profiles ("Circles"). I created two Circles, "Notifications" and "Comments", which I'd add profiles to liberally, but remove as needed. I could still communicate and hear form most profiles of interest but abuse ability was limited. I've not seen that capacity elsewhere.

(G+ gets a lot of criticism, much well-deserved. From my experience at the time and retrospective analysis since, it seemed to do a really good job of mitigating many of the worst abuses that have plagued other platforms.)

The mechanism gets to a reconceptualisation I've been having about communications in general, what I've been calling #CommunicationsAutonomy (or a few other variants --- it's not a graceful phrase and I'm inconsistent...). I've recently run across #LaniWalker's concept of #EpistemicRights, which would be a subset of this.

The core idea is that there are a set of interrelated, and yes, often contradictory rights around information, association, assembly, etc., focused around:

• send ↔ receive
• create ↔ destroy
• reveal ↔ conceal
• associate ↔ disassociate
• express ↔ withhold
• authenticate ↔ repudiate

Privacy, for example is the ability to set and defend limits on the spread of your personal information.

In your case, the question is your right to preemptively opt out of unwanted communications. I've noted myself that somewhere between about a dozen and two dozen daily text interruptions is about my own annoyance threshold.

There's more here (mostly in comments): https://diaspora.glasswings.com/posts/622677903778013902fd002590d8e506

Point being that these are the sorts of issues Twitter (and any other platform architects / operators) should be looking at.

Meantime, elevating your own voice & concerns would be a Good Thing.

#CommunicationAutonomy #AutonomyInCommunication

@rysiek Thank / credit Lani Watson, via New Books Network:

https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-right-to-know

The Right to Know: Epistemic Rights and Why We Need Them

https://www.routledge.com/The-Right-to-Know-Epistemic-Rights-and-Why-We-Need-Them/Watson/p/book/9781138343795

@Dianora @temporal

#LaniWatson #EpistemicRights #NewBooksNetwork

@Dianora The realisation hit me a couple of years ago that virtually all of the informational abuses we normally consider all stem from a common cause: media monopoly.

Censorship.
Propaganda.
Surveillance.
Targeted manipulation.

https://archive.ph/https%3A%2F%2Fjoindiaspora.com%2Fposts%2F7bfcf170eefc013863fa002590d8e506

HN discussion at the time (most of it misses the point, of course, some salience however):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24771470

More recently I've started encountering the term "Epistemic Rights", which seems to correspond fairly strongly.

@rysiek

#monopoly #censorship #propaganda #surveillance #manipulation #MediaMonopoly #InformationalAutonomy #EpistemicRights