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Imagine if Twitter had been run like Square. Square helped normalize e-commerce by using AI to thwart fraud and verify authenticity. Twitter used AI to create

Imagine if Twitter had been run like Square. Square helped normalize e-commerce by using AI to thwart fraud and verify authenticity. Twitter used AI to create an algorithmic hate machine, disseminating lies, outrage, and fear. #91 – Jack Dorsey: Square, Cryptocurrency, and Artificial Intelligence https://lexfridman.com/jack-dorsey/ https://lexfridman.com/jack-dorsey/ Dorsey's regrets about APIs indicates he still doesn't understand the harm Twitter (and others) have done.

ch4s3 4y ago
Commerce is already inherently collaborative and as Deirdre McCloskey puts it, fosters certain virtues. I think Square always had less potential to go in a dark direction.
adventured 4y ago
All free, easily accessible publishing platforms of considerable size, without exception, will always disseminate lies, outrage, fear, along with clickbait, scams, and general garbage content by the hundreds of millions of posts. There isn't a single example that hasn't turned out that way in the history of the Internet and there never will be. There's a reason for it: human nature hasn't changed in the past decades, and those items sell (garner attention) and always will quite predictably. The sole means of stopping that is to have a highly controlled platform that restricts who gets to say what, quite aggressively, through hiring many thousands of moderators with intentional bias to a particular worldview.
- specialist 4y ago
  Sure. The prior implementations of the hate machines didn't benefit from recommenders and individual behaviour profiling. As silly (quaint) as the efforts now seem, FCC licensees had to serve the public interest, popular culture had ratings, we had the Fairness Doctrine, the medias weren't yet dominated by monoplies, yadda, yadda. Now, there are no checks, no counter balances. All I'm saying is that Zuck, Dorsey, Page & Brin, and so many others, are moral cripples, oblivious to the harm they've enabled. They're not even malicious, like Murdock or Sinclair, which somehow makes it more sad.

ch4s3 4y ago

Commerce is already inherently collaborative and as Deirdre McCloskey puts it, fosters certain virtues. I think Square always had less potential to go in a dark direction.

adventured 4y ago

All free, easily accessible publishing platforms of considerable size, without exception, will always disseminate lies, outrage, fear, along with clickbait, scams, and general garbage content by the hundreds of millions of posts. There isn't a single example that hasn't turned out that way in the history of the Internet and there never will be. There's a reason for it: human nature hasn't changed in the past decades, and those items sell (garner attention) and always will quite predictably. The sole means of stopping that is to have a highly controlled platform that restricts who gets to say what, quite aggressively, through hiring many thousands of moderators with intentional bias to a particular worldview.

specialist 4y ago
Sure. The prior implementations of the hate machines didn't benefit from recommenders and individual behaviour profiling. As silly (quaint) as the efforts now seem, FCC licensees had to serve the public interest, popular culture had ratings, we had the Fairness Doctrine, the medias weren't yet dominated by monoplies, yadda, yadda. Now, there are no checks, no counter balances. All I'm saying is that Zuck, Dorsey, Page & Brin, and so many others, are moral cripples, oblivious to the harm they've enabled. They're not even malicious, like Murdock or Sinclair, which somehow makes it more sad.