Michaelmitchell

Got about halfway through it and does she explain her position of ai doesn’t exist better ? Seems like she just uses that example of cats at the beginning then goes on with the rest of the video being a general overview of the limitations and dangers of ai/ml. Would be nice if she defined what she thinks intelligence is. The rest of the video seems fine, albeit well tread by now, but her insistence of “ai doesn’t exist” needs more explanation.

Meta does not want to “consume the fediverse” , it’s not worth it. Threads has been up for a day and it already has 10x the number of active users than mastodon. Mastodon and the fediverse as it currently stands, is a blip compared to instagram and Twitter. They’re doing activitypub so they can claim there’s a free market and avoid any anti-trust litigation for owning the three largest social media platforms. If that means a relatively small number of people stay on mastodon instead of threads that’s a small price to pay.

Except it doesn’t work and no corporation does it any more because it doesn’t. Look at the two main examples, internet browsers and email. Both of them remain open platforms with viable foss alternatives because google knows that doing this sort of stuff will get them in trouble with anti-trust suits.