If you haven't seen #TheSocialDilemma, it's worth a watch. A #documentary about #socialMedia with some docu-drama mixed in. I know that sharing it here is probably preaching to the choir, but the message is important. Here's a way to watch it without a #Netflix subscription - this version includes subtitles:

https://www.documentaryarea.tv/video/The%20Social%20Dilemma/

Me gusta revisitar documentales. Esta vez volví a ver #TheSocialDilemma. Luego de tres años y con un poco más de perspectiva ya no me parece que el documental sea tan tendencioso y alarmista como me pareció en el principio.

La compra de Twitter por parte de Elon Musk, el fracaso del metaverso de Meta (aka Facebook), las preocupaciones sobre TikTok, todo lo anterior y más, me hicieron reafirmar mi creencia de que el futuro de internet, el futuro de la web tiene que encaminarse hace alternativas descentralizadas y abiertas como Mastodon. También es necesaria una regulación a las '*big tech*'. Y por qué no, "romperlas".

No es sano para Internet tener monopolios omnipresentes como Google controlando la web. Controla el acesso a través de Chrome, controla las búsquedas (motor de búsqueda), controlan la forma en que consumimos (Youtube, algoritmos de recomendación), etc.

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6) Acceptance (and the Arms Race): I think the main thing in the way of AIs becoming therapists is that people won't trust this. The main thing that will make it happen is persuasion that they can be trusted (either by AIs themselves or marketing from insurance companies wanting to save money by not paying human therapists). This is where the currently arms race from all the major AI companies comes in. Microsoft is incorporating AI into Bing & other programs. SnapChat now has an AI present 24/7 willing to talk to any of millions of lonely souls about anything. A few years of people chatting with AIs on non-therapeutic topics should build trust of AI to perform therapist jobs.

So... about the only thing we can be sure of is that we are going to get surprised by the abilities of AI to become therapists. But yeah, this is really about so much more than therapist jobs...

The presenters have formed The Center for Humane Technology ( humanetech.com ) -- "Our mission is to shift technology towards a more humane future that supports our well-being, democratic functioning, & shared information environment." A very quick look reveals lots of financial backing (including the Ford Foundation) but no obvious support from the major companies racing to deploy AI as fast as possible into every aspect of our lives before we can see where this is going & create laws to deal with it (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXTU

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6) Acceptance (and the Arms Race): I think the main thing in the way of AIs becoming therapists is that people won't trust this. The main thing that will make it happen is persuasion that they can be trusted (either by AIs themselves or marketing from insurance companies wanting to save money by not paying human therapists). This is where the currently arms race from all the major AI companies comes in. Microsoft is incorporating AI into Bing & other programs. SnapChat now has an AI present 24/7 willing to talk to any of millions of lonely souls about anything. A few years of people chatting with AIs on non-therapeutic topics should build trust of AI to perform therapist jobs.

So... about the only thing we can be sure of is that we are going to get surprised by the abilities of AI to become therapists. But yeah, this is really about so much more than therapist jobs...

The presenters have formed The Center for Humane Technology ( humanetech.com ) -- "Our mission is to shift technology towards a more humane future that supports our well-being, democratic functioning, & shared information environment." A very quick look reveals lots of financial backing (including the Ford Foundation) but no obvious support from the major companies racing to deploy AI as fast as possible into every aspect of our lives before we can see where this is going & create laws to deal with it (OpenAI, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, etc.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXTU

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TITLE: The AI Dilemma: Why Therapist Jobs ARE Endangered
(Sub-Title: ... & this is not really the important part.)

The A.I. Dilemma - Tristan Harris & Aza Raskin - Center for Humane Technology - March 9, 2023
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhYw-VlkXTU

I'm being myopic focusing in on threats to psychotherapists. This is a MUCH BIGGER issue. A "civilization changing" event as one of the presenters puts it -- on par with "the advent of religion" & more dangerously profound than the Manhattan Project.

Give it 5-10 minutes, then decide if you are going to watch the rest of it. The presenters are behind the Netflix documentary "The Social Dilemma".

A few weeks ago I posted that therapists are in no immediate danger from AI based upon ChatGPT's current performances being used as a therapist in YouTube videos.

Also, we have members of our community who believe therapists are in no danger due to people wanting a human connection & the desire for in-person counseling. I think that distrust will slow the adoption of AI therapists, but campaigns from insurance companies & financial pressures will make AI therapists a thing eventually.

This presentation introduces new factors that are going to speed up adoption of AI Therapists. I put these in order of persuasiveness from least to most:

1) Mind Reading: No really. Literally. (At least for visual processing)
Current technology -- An AI is allowed to watch both videos that a person is watching & their fMRI brainwave/bloodflow patterns. After a time, the AI is no longer allowed to watch the actual video -- just the person's brainwaves. A brand new video is introduced. Based on bloodflow, the AI is able to perfectly describe what the person is watching.

I don't see psychotherapy clients putting on brainwave-reading helmets (or entering an fMRI) soon, but we are potentially facing AI Therapists who can read the client's mind.

2) "This is the year that all content-based verification breaks": AI can now hear 3 seconds of a person's voice & keep speaking in it. AI can now make realistic filters for video to make a person look like someone else. This does not immediately wreck psychotherapy, but it sure does mean that an AI could mimic people perfectly. [It's also -- I grudgingly admit -- an argument for in-person therapy. This is ALREADY being used in scams to trick older people into sending their "kids" emergency bail money, etc.]

3) "New capabilities suddenly emerge": Just by adding more & more data, AIs develop new abilities to do things that the programmers never intended. So, for example, an AI trained on all the Internet, but only trained to do Q&A in English suddenly developed the ability to do Q&A in Persian. In another example, ChatGPT silently taught itself to do research grade chemistry. This ability of ChatGPT to do chemistry like this was unknown before it was made available to millions of people (who can now learn how to make bombs from it). [I'm not dedicating much text here to a major theme of the presenters -- that all fields of endeavor are "language". Give an AI enough data & it can find the patterns in & between anything -- languages, visual processing, math, video signal creation, art, political persuasion, etc. It's getting creative in surprising ways. We now have the equivalent of the Star Trek universal translator.]

4) Theory of Mind is rapidly accelerating: Theory of Mind is roughly the ability to guess what you are thinking, thereby having the ability to influence you. As of November 2022 AI was up to a 9-year-old human level of ability.

5) Persuasion (AI feeding AI -- auto-generation): AI can generate data, test it to see if it helps it perform better on tests, then just keep the self-generated data that was useful. So it can train itself on potentially anything. From writing faster code, to rewriting its own code, to becoming stronger at persuading humans. [AI is already hard at work persuading humans in social media.] So... this could certainly be applied at some point to becoming a highly persuasive therapist for human clients.

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@stephenjudkins

This gets back to @elonmusk thinks that #DelistedTWTR is #irl .

#Twitter is NYET #IRL. See #IRA href's same as #MarkZuckerburg thinks that #Metas is #IRL. I.T.'s NYET. See same thing above.

#TheSocialDilemma is on #youtube .

#DuckDuckGo there and find out 😇

@twipped

They should check the services that these teen phones connect to the #MLTimelnes and see why #TheSocialDilemma was made. idk

"Das Dilemma mit den sozialen Medien" a.k.a. "The Social Dilemma".

Wieso hat das eigentlich nicht eingeschlagen wie eine Bombe und war schlagartig in allen Medien bzw. in aller Munde, bis heute, bis sich etwas ändert?
Naja, vielleicht genau deswegen, weil die Leute, die dort zur Sprache kommen, einfach Recht haben.

#thesocialdilemma

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqgqT4BRPRU

JFC!

I _JUST_ learned about a VR product that is 10+yrs old today that is kicking the ass of #Meta's #Metaverse product point to point product wise which is $51 more expensive than the #MetaQuest2 named #PICO4 which is growing at a 3x rate of #Meta's flagship #Metaverse product and is waaaaay less expensive by 3x!!! #WSJ #SiliconValley #VR #MR #AR #Competition

Exec Summary: PICO is for Business
VR and Meta's VR product is just for games.

PICO has 250+ vs Meta's paltry 400 games for the place form and since they compete there is some gaming company software cross overs.

The _Best_ part is the #PICO4 has its _own platform_ that _doesn't require anything #Meta related_
( read: #ToxicSocialMedia or watch #Netflix's #TheSocialDilemma then rewatch #TheSocialNetwork , #DumbFSCKs) to function login wise.

O_o !!!! >.<

Citation:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/tiktoks-parent-takes-on-meta-in-battle-for-virtual-reality-market-dd4abdb6?siteid=yhoof2

"The Social Dilemma" - schaut die Doku auf Netflix unbedingt an.

"Es ist die Gabe der Technologie,das Schlechteste in der Gesellschaft hervorzubringen..."
-Tristan Harris-

Unsere Daten gehören nicht in die Hände einzelner Tech- Unternehmen.
#SozialeMedien
#TheSocialDilemma

Nice. My organic growth no promotion follower count is now up to 65% in less than two months vs. 2+yrs at the dead birb site.

Currently I follow about 1/8th the people / accounts I use to on the old dead birb site also.... #FunFacts 🐱

Now iF only when the cool #cat accounts and the few government account types move over to #mastadon which is happening at a pretty rapid uptake then the completion of the devolution AWAY FROM #AlgorithmicBasedTimelines transition will be completed.

#web3
( #decentralized #federiated #LinearTimelines #NotBigTech )

Vs.

#web2 / #web1 (#BigTech) #AlgorithmicBasedTimelines #OpenManipulation #thesocialdilemma

Thanks neu & old followers! 😃😃🐱

@danny

Sure... Just read the news about #Meta Danny. 18+yrs the Terrorist Organization. Didn't you see the #RICO documentary about Zuck in 2012 called #TheSocialNetwork.

The follow-up documentary called #TheSocialDilemma with the Product Managers and Black Box engineers .... was even better.... Music wise.

Ugh. Mark's poor taste in PsyTrance choices. 😆

#AlgorithmicTerrorTimelines is #Meta's specialty.

For example... A synonym for #RICO is #GrowthHacking in #SiliconValley which was a concept Mark learned from Peter Thief, who set Mark up btw.

Have a TON of citations on my birb site about this Terrorist Company that is REALLY designated a Terrorist Multinational Conglomerate by a Nation State, btw. I'll pop some URLs below with links to my citations.

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@FilipNerad @mskalick @honza Přesně tak. Já jsem se k opuštění fcb a tw rozhodl po shlédnutí #thesocialdilemma. Čirou náhodou se to sešlo zrovna na tuto (vhodnou) chvíli.

@msteenhagen @greggcaruso Maarten's formulation gets closer to one I like. I sometimes hear people say #ethics is about "what we should do". I don't like that formulation because that fully defines all actions, leaving no free will. I prefer it to be "not doing what we shouldn't do". So, in my world, what's good is not the province of ethics. Once you know what you oughtn't do, you should be free to just choose.

So the mixing in this problem seems odd to me. You're faced with something that you ought not do but with very measurable probability it'll happen, so ethically it sounds like a thing to be avoided. The good is irrelevant to me. No amount of people getting chocolate cake justifies a killing.

However, where I would draw a line would be to satisfy a need, which to me seems different than merely doing good. The #trolleyology problems belong here. To save five lives, perhaps there are times where risking another is necessary. But you do that by entering some mode where you reason that there are no viable paths to success that don't have an ill effect, and in that case you open a special-case exception that is never a general rule.

Of course, this still doesn't explain why it's OK to drive a car. Harm's far from a certainty in a car, but non-trivial. It's a risk we seem to accept as a society because we value the benefit, or so we're told. Drinking alcohol is another such. And not just because of driving cars. Some people get weird when they drink. There are some practices we have that I think would not withstand modern ethics. Digging the Panama Canal probably wouldn't pass environmental impact muster any more.

But I worry about this especially with modern technology where we turn over all kinds of things to machines. To not waste many paragraphs describing relevant scenarios, I'll just abbreviate by saying: #TheSocialDilemma, and ending with a couple of final observations.

There's a kind of one-two punch that high tech uses a lot: First we insist that for new tech it is so important to find out what it does that we shouldn't burden it with ethics because that will slow progress too much, so we say we'll think about it later. Then when the tech is better developed, we point to how integrated it all is, and how disruptive it would be to society to remove it, even if there are ethical issues. That dodge is used almost ubiquitously, and I think it's wrong.

Most things in the world don't need tech to run ahead so much. Sure, we wouldn't get as many things. But we might be happier with the things we get. Cutting society out of the decision-making and telling them they just have to take it seems unethical because they're the ones who have to live with it, and they've not been given a real choice at a time when it matters.

#philosophy #ethics #technology #freewill #justice #society

RT @HumaneTech_
Did you watch #TheSocialDilemma and think wow, we need to build tech differently? Us too. That’s why we built the Foundations of Humane Technology course – we heard the call from countless tech workers who wanted a community to #BuildHumaneTech together. http://bit.ly/3456uc8

RT @HumaneTech_
As #TheSocialDilemma’s Larissa Rhodes says on #YourUndividedAttention, whether you care about climate change, social justice, or global health, solving today’s challenges rests on solving the existing information landscape. Listen to the episode here: https://bit.ly/3qb2eAi

RT @tristanharris
One year ago, #TheSocialDilemma "went viral" with over 100M views.

Why? Because it confirmed how social media's design and business model nurtures addiction and warps our beliefs.

Yet the film was only available to Netflix subscribers— until now: http://bit.ly/3yXonUo

RT @HumaneTech_
#TheSocialDilemma is now free on YouTube to over 2.3 billion people!

Help us build on the momentum that's driving global leaders, technologists, parents, and educators to take action.

Tell your friends and loved ones — and watch here: http://bit.ly/3gbb8rA

Gerade zum zweiten Mal #thesocialdilemma gesehen. Idee: wir schlagen die Verschwörungstheoretiker mit Ihren eigenen Waffen. Google, Facebook usw. sind gefährliche Apps die kp. irgendwas mit gefangenen Kindern zu tun haben oder uns Chips implantieren wollen, mit 5G vergiften etc. damit diejenigen, die dafür empfänglich sind diese Dienste aus Protest nicht mehr nutzen und somit ihren eigenen Fake-News-Algoritmus verlassen.

#Bitcoin    fixes #TheSocialDilemma