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Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

Hey! I'm a leftist privacy & digital rights advocate, Democratic Socialist, and a humongous fan of computers.

If I come off as argumentative, it is probably not my intention. Unless you're a fascist :)


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Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

I've been using @kagihq@mastodon.social for a while, but what happened this morning really shows just how damn good Kagi is compared to other search engines.

I wanted to look up a book.

Since I'd ranked them higher, Kagi showed me Goodreads, for a score and reviews, and bookshop.org, so I could buy from a local bookstore, then the author's site.

DuckDuckGo had Amazon (🤮🤮), then the author's site, then images with "AI images" set to "show"

Google had images, Amazon, a bookstore in the wrong city, and Forbes.

Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

And thus is the problem with reliance on a single web services provider.

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Deviant Ollam
@deviantollam@defcon.social

Feels like many of my followers could use these images in some wonderful memes. Or in flirting. Or you can just be happy knowing that the Deaf community tends to be very queer-positive and that even "mainstream" apps teach LGBTQ+ terms, etc.

But also, yeah, I know some of you -- even hearies -- are gonna be dropping these screenshots in non-ASL conversations, heh. 🤟🤟

A screenshot of an ASL tutorial app, where the pictured individual is tapping their chin with their index finger as their thumb is extended, making their hand into an "L" shape. The user is asked to "choose the correct sign" and the possible definitions are "Laugh" "Lesbian" "Girl" and "Smile" The correct answer is Lesbian. A screenshot of an ASL tutorial app where the user is asked to "fill in the gap with the right word" and the sentence in questions is "Me _____, you, too?" Possible definitions are "Gay" "Lesbian" and "Straight" The correct answer is Lesbian. A screenshot of an ASL tutorial app, where the pictured individual is tapping their chin with their index finger as their thumb is extended, making their hand into an "L" shape. The user is asked to "fill in the gap with the right word" and the sentence in questions is "Me _____, you, too?" Possible definitions are "Gay" "Lesbian" and "Straight" The correct answer is Lesbian. A screenshot of an ASL tutorial app which has instructed the user on the following phrases: "Straight" "Gay" "Lesbian" "Divorced" "She my girlfriend" "My parents divorced" "Saturday have child++ party" "Me Lesbian you too?" "You Straight or Gay Which?" "You have Girlfriend or Boyfriend?"
Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

@deviantollam@defcon.social Ah yes, the four sexualities:

A set of 4 buttons, from top to bottom reading "STRAIGHT," "GAY," "LESBIAN", and "DIVORCED"
b-rain
@b_rain@troet.cafe

"each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine"
Edit: I got those screenshots from imgur. It might be from Xitter, with the account deleted or maybe threads with the account not visible without login? 🤷🤷
2nd Edit: @edgeofeurope@mastodon.social found this https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1809325125159825649.html
#school #AI #KI #meme #misinformation #desinformation

@stilloranged weird interaction with a student this week. they kept coming up with weird "facts" ("greek is actually a combination of four other languages") that left me baffled. i said let's look this stuff up together, and they said ok, i'll open a search bar, and they opened... ch*tgpt @stilloranged and i was like "this is not a search bar" and they were like "yes it is, you can search for anything in here" the thing that made me feel crazy is like. every kid that's using this as a browser is getting new BESPOKE false "facts." this isn't "a widespread misconception about X that stems from how it's taught in schools." each individual kid is now hooked into a Nonsense Machine. With the "widespread misconception about X" you can start at a baseline. like, ok, in tenth grade we all talk about X thing from history, and that leaves us with some misguided concepts about X, but we can correct that as students get broader understandings of the world. But with this, each child is getting UNIQUE wrong facts they are SURE are correct... because they did what we told them to do! they "looked it up"! they got it from somewhere! it's not a kid making up a belief on hearsay and assumption... it's something they think they LEARNED @stilloranged: this kid was extremely combative with me, and i understood why. i was sitting in front of him and telling him that the internet, a computer, technology, all these supposedly authoritative things... were wrong. and that i, one person, was right. he basically *couldn't* believe me. he decided that i was simply a teacher who'd made a mistake. he could check it, after all! he could look it up! he could find the REAL facts. i obviously hadn't done that, i was just an adult who'd decided i was smarter than him. hence the defensiveness. like i said: i understood. it was so fucking rough. i did my best, but i am one person trying to work against a campaign of misinformation so vast that it fucking terrifies me. this kid is being set up for a life lived entirely inside the hall of mirrors
Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

@b_rain@troet.cafe This also ties into how the way we design things influences how people percieve them.

Before ChatGPT, there was "OpenAI Playground," a paragraph-sized box where you would type words, and the GPT-2 model would respond or continue the prompt, highlighted in green.

Then ChatGPT came along, but it was formatted as a chat. Less an authoritative source, more a conversational tool.

Now the ChatGPT home page is formatted like a search engine. A tagline, search bar, and suggested prompts.

Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

I've been using @kagihq@mastodon.social for a while, but what happened this morning really shows just how damn good Kagi is compared to other search engines.

I wanted to look up a book.

Since I'd ranked them higher, Kagi showed me Goodreads, for a score and reviews, and bookshop.org, so I could buy from a local bookstore, then the author's site.

DuckDuckGo had Amazon (🤮🤮), then the author's site, then images with "AI images" set to "show"

Google had images, Amazon, a bookstore in the wrong city, and Forbes.

Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

And thus is the problem with reliance on a single web services provider.

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Bolt
@boltx@mastodon.social

In case your Signal messages aren't working, yes, it's a general service disruption.

UPDATE: It's #AWS.

https://downdetector.com/status/signal/

#signal

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