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Over the past decade, the social networks broke their promise to content creators.
The backlash has just begun.
New @ScreenshotEssay: The Algorithmic Feed, Content Creators, and Broken Promises
@erwblo Denk het niet. Toevallig legt ‘onze’ eigen emeritus hoogleraar Bernd Hugenholtz het nu uit aan de hand van onderzoek naar AI van paar jaar geleden. De ‘human intervention’ is en blijft key voor copyright bescherming. Anders vogelvrij. Zie deze slide: https://t.co/EyBARznUud
Do we need to be constantly inundated with a firehose of content tuned to our lowest, base desires?
These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.
We need more mess, more friction.
Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:
Having a... See more
These days, you don't go out and find cool stuff. You get served whatever pablum the platforms think you'll consume.
We need more mess, more friction.
Open protocols like RSS, email, and the web give us the foundation for being more mindful:
Having a... See more
First, there is the ownership and control over the use of assets created on and by these platforms. In most cases, the terms and conditions that we agree to when using digital platforms – or indeed the licences that we adopt – grant both platform owners and third parties permission to reuse our assets in ways that may technically meet licensing... See more
Creative Communities
Let’s return to our earlier assertion that written language, in superseding oral culture, has been responsible in part for our increased estrangement from the more-than-human world, and that technological implementations of language – in the form of mostly English code, and ultimately in 1s and 0s – exacerbates this estrangement still further.
James Bridle • Ways of Being: Animals, Plants, Machines: The Search for a Planetary Intelligence
The shift to putting creators in the driver’s seat was a long-awaited one. But no good thing comes without unintended consequences. Users were uploading 300 hours of video to YouTube every single minute; over 100 million photos were posted to Instagram each day. Even when we look today, it’s impossible to keep up with the number of new Tweets,... See more
Gaby Goldberg • Curators All the Way Down
The search experience on the internet is dying. Google is no longer trying to organize the world’s information. It’s just scraping it, stealing it, and serving an AI generated mashup of everything it steals from human creators in an effort to keep people on the first page of search results, because that’s where their ads are and where they make
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