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The point at which the BBC started reporting was the same as all other major news outlets: after the point that they just looked daft for not reporting it.
I know this as my videos of the riots took my little blog from 50 - 100 views a day to thousands per minute…
This is part of what started the death of BBM and proliferation of news via social media. You’d go on Twitter and see all the reports or riots and burning buildings then go to the BBC and… nothing.
All of this is to say that successive British governments, over a span of decades, have been actively destroying freedom of speech and a right to privacy for its citizens.
With AI and the rise of populism combined with the absolute decimation of the average person’s attention span it is going to get a lot worse.
This did give me a good chuckle
It’s also pretty accepted within this community that a lot of data fed to US tech companies ends up with the Israeli government.
Meanwhile the current US government headed by Donny Tango has done a very thorough job of proving itself to be about as predictable and dependable as a rabid dog on crack.
Throughout the events which have transpired since a certain orange charlatan took office it is objectively true that the Chinese government has portrayed itself as a much more stable and sane entity.
We really need to stop this elitism and recognise the reality.
1. “I’m fine with ‘em, as long as they’re useless”
2. “The only authoritarian regime which can be trusted with such power is the one which benefits my company”
Testing each lab’s model in its own harness just tells us how well the lab has performed. For the model’s performance we need a control and the only way to get the control is to either test all models in all harnesses or all models in the same harness
To objectively test all models the harness would need to be the same and ideally independent. Failing that, all three models should be tested in all three harnesses and the output verified on a model x harness level and on an overall aggregated model x all harnesses level.
Anyway, I digress, it would be great to connect and exchange ideas if you have the time? I really like the idea of fading connections.
The reality is that the term democracy in western society has essentially become meaningless due to the swathes of algorithmic manipulation which occurs every second of everyday through every possible digital medium.
I could be connecting unrelated dots here, but it sure as hell seems quite coincidental to me.
Think of roads. It’s one of few things that humans have managed to agree on across the planet and there’s a good reason for that. The system (regardless of which side you drive on) works. Signs, markings and materials are all pretty much identical wherever you go.
In other countries the do have a lot of additional meals which are specific to their local taste (rice/fried chicken/different sauces) but the core burgers like a Big Mac, mcChicken and sides such as fries are there.
The only way something like this would be remotely plausible as a concept would be for enough data providers with overlapping authority on given topics to implement it.
Sadly SMEs have no choice but to go with the flow and allow AI scrapers in. If they don’t, they won’t be as visible in AI generations at the top of the SERPs and they won’t get the visits, which will mean they don’t make the money required to stay afloat.
The fish that attempts to swim against the current ultimately dies and has its corpse carried where the current was going, anyway. Without the sway which comes with size your only option is to go with the flow and drop a little dirty protest every now and then.