AI is getting better at performing mass categorization of photos and text. A developer can scrape a bunch of photos from, say, Facebook -- either directly, likely violating the terms of service, or through offering an app by which people ...
I participate in a regular poll by the Christian Science Monitor on Internet policy topics. This week's question was about the recent data breaches at the U.S. Office of Personnel Management:
As you can see, most people said yes. I count myself ...
@jodansmif I read them a long time ago. My recollection is that they were admirably different in tone and plot from the original - so, new! - and generally geared around storytelling as a way to explore philosophical questions that OSC wanted to take up.
@andrewamonti It’s surely an appropriation of some kind, though I’m still thinking through if it’s a misappropriation. Wage theft, as I understand it, is a term of art for work that’s already agreed to be compensated but people aren’t compensated anyway.
@danielmhinkle Yea, the question I’m meaning to ask is a systemic one. And - with it framed, it might be incumbent on randos in the know to pressure companies more to find out how their work is being used. E.g. use of one’s tax dollars, or if Ender were asked to play his game a second time.
CAPTCHAs are a brilliant way to tell people and bots apart. And reCAPTCHA, harnessing people’s work to help scan texts or improve maps, is brilliant x2.
But I wonder what Ender’s Game-like responsibility people bear for the ethical valence of the work they’re unknowingly doing. twitter.com/voxdotcom/stat…
