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One of the bullies many admire. Symbol X = harmful irritant.

When we held up a mirror to Elon Musk’s Twitter/X he tried to sue us into silence | Imran Ahmed My organisation is standing up to the tech billionaires whose social media platforms are full of hate and lies

The future of Wikipedia. Long and thorough article.

Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth (Gift Article) Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without destroying itself in the process?

Meta huddle: Zuckerberg unveils AI tools and snubs Apple headset Employees got a sneak peek into Meta’s generative AI plans, upcoming Twitter rival and Zuckerberg’s thoughts on the Apple Vision Pro.

Webwise Ireland Promoting a safer Internet for all users, especially young people. Co-funded by the Department of Education and Skills and is co-financed by the European Union’s Connecting Europe Facility.

Women, we have to fight this, mothers of boys, we have to fight this. Grandmothers too.

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“Wilful ignorance, however, does not protect us from our own accountability. “

“It is completely understandable that rapid technological advancements have caught parents unawares”.

We will add and grandparents thanks to leaving the important task of learning digital literacy on the hands of individuals with good intentions, plenty of funding with a lack of research on how to professionally deal with acquiring digital skills and adult learners. In addition, the ethics of platforms that helped to amplify these sort of messages should be questioned too: NOW.

Parents, talk to your sons about Andrew Tate – we teachers can’t take him on alone | Lola Okolosie The messages of toxic, misogynist influencers can reach children more easily than ever – schools and families need to work together to prepare them, says teacher and writer Lola Okolosie

“A Conversation With Bing’s Chatbot Left Me Deeply Unsettled”

A free article below 👇

https://nyti.ms/3xxjVwD

The saga continues and the same journalist and news paper who irresponsible wrote and published the article below, are writing and publishing this:

“These A.I. models hallucinate, and make up emotions where none really exist. But so do humans. And for a few hours Tuesday night, I felt a strange new emotion — a foreboding feeling that A.I. had crossed a threshold, and that the world would never be the same.”
A free article 👇 (I’m gifting it through my subscription but don’t know if it works)

https://nyti.ms/3xxjVwD

Bing (Yes, Bing) Just Made Search Interesting Again Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.

We need responsibility with this:

Back to Plato then? On ChatGPT

Words, Words, Words - The American Scholar What does the advent of ChatGPT mean for already beleaguered teachers?

Noam Chomsky on ChatGPT: It’s “Basically High-Tech Plagiarism” and “a Way of Avoiding Learning” ChatGPT, the system that understands natural language and responds in kind, has caused a sensation since its launch less than three months ago. If you've tried it out, you'll surely have wondered what it will soon revolutionize — or, as the case may be, what it will destroy.

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It’s actually sort of bad news despite their excitement. Quote:
“It’s early days for this kind of AI, they said, and it’s too early to predict the downstream consequences of putting this technology in billions of people’s hands” end of quote.
Typical innovation hype that will drag humanity into the unknown with all its good or bad consequences. Being Microsoft it would probably be bad but many governments will buy it. As they do now.

Bing (Yes, Bing) Just Made Search Interesting Again Google has stiff competition now, after Microsoft integrated powerful A.I. technology into its search engine.