[embed]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfZuoZZSrJU&t=25s&ab_channel=JessieGender[/embed] What happens when capitalism, AI, and gender-critical transphobia meet? You get a TERF app. And it’s… also racist?
From ELIZA onwards, humans love their digital reflections. In 1966, MIT computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum released ELIZA (named after the fictional Eliza Doolittle from George Bernard Shaw’s 1913 play Pygmalion), the first program that allowed some kind of plausible conversation between humans and machines. The process was simple: Modeled after the Rogerian style of psychotherapy,…
While investigators for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration merely “suspect” the Tesla that crashed into a firetruck was in self-driving mode, Tesla’s silence seems to confirm it. Typically Tesla’s CEO and hypeman Musk is quick to blame the drivers of cars after violent collisions.
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While investigators for the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration merely “suspect” the Tesla that crashed into a firetruck was in self-driving mode, Tesla’s silence seems to confirm it. Typically Tesla’s CEO and hypeman Musk is quick to blame the drivers of cars after violent collisions. Source: Tesla eerily silent as federal investigators blame “FSD” in…
[sc name="voicefemlower" ][/sc] I’m not going to mince words. Everybody knows what’s wrong with Google now. There’s lots of speculation and also lots of actual information about why and how it happened, and lots of debate about this, but everybody’s clear on the results: Google is no longer a reliable way to find the most relevant…
What happens when capitalism, AI and gender-critical transphobia meet? You get a TERF app. And it’s… also racist?
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Some were sent to browse the internet to gather tracking cookies from other websites, just as a human visitor would have done through regular behavior. Fake people with fake cookies and fake social-media accounts, fake-moving their fake cursors, fake-clicking on fake websites — the fraudsters had essentially created a simulacrum of the internet, where the only real things were the ads.
How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was…