MachineMachine /stream - tagged with internet https://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss LifePress therourke@gmail.com <![CDATA[You’re wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories]]> https://thenextweb.com/news/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories

Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy theories have found a natural home online.

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Fri, 24 Nov 2023 11:33:57 -0800 https://thenextweb.com/news/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories
<![CDATA[The AI feedback loop: Researchers warn of 'model collapse' as AI trains on AI-generated content | VentureBeat]]> https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/

Join top executives in San Francisco on July 11-12 and learn how business leaders are getting ahead of the generative AI revolution. Learn More

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Mon, 10 Jul 2023 02:53:07 -0700 https://venturebeat.com/ai/the-ai-feedback-loop-researchers-warn-of-model-collapse-as-ai-trains-on-ai-generated-content/
<![CDATA[Anatomy of an AI System]]> https://anatomyof.ai/

A cylinder sits in a room. It is impassive, smooth, simple and small. It stands 14.8cm high, with a single blue-green circular light that traces around its upper rim. It is silently attending. A woman walks into the room, carrying a sleeping child in her arms, and she addresses the cylinder.

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Sun, 26 Feb 2023 13:51:25 -0800 https://anatomyof.ai/
<![CDATA[False Futurism — Real Life]]> https://reallifemag.com/false-futurism/

By many accounts, the internet is entering a new stage that will completely alter how we experience it. At its core it’s “a story about community and collaboration on a scale never seen before” that is focused on “tearing down the traditional barriers that have kept companies safe.

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Mon, 28 Feb 2022 00:52:03 -0800 https://reallifemag.com/false-futurism/
<![CDATA[A Declaration of the Interdependence of Cyberspace]]> https://www.interdependence.online/declaration/e-bw-AGkYsZFYqmAe2771A6hi9ZMIkWrkBNtHIF1hF4?s=09

Sign

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Thu, 25 Nov 2021 02:51:21 -0800 https://www.interdependence.online/declaration/e-bw-AGkYsZFYqmAe2771A6hi9ZMIkWrkBNtHIF1hF4?s=09
<![CDATA[The Rotting Internet Is a Collective Hallucination - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/

Too much has been lost already. The glue that holds humanity’s knowledge together is coming undone. Sixty years ago the futurist Arthur C. Clarke observed that any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

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Thu, 08 Jul 2021 23:55:19 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/06/the-internet-is-a-collective-hallucination/619320/
<![CDATA[The Darkness at the End of the Tunnel: Artificial Intelligence and Neoreaction - Viewpoint Magazine]]> https://viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/the-darkness-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-artificial-intelligence-and-neoreaction/

Science fiction tells us that a change in a past event, caused by the intervention of a time traveler, will open up a parallel timeline that leads to an alternate present. The example that comes to mind, for some reason, is Back to the Future, Part II.

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Mon, 31 May 2021 01:55:10 -0700 https://viewpointmag.com/2017/03/28/the-darkness-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel-artificial-intelligence-and-neoreaction/
<![CDATA['Remember the Internet': An Encyclopedia of Online Life - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/03/remember-the-internet/618350/

For many of us, for better or for worse, the internet is home. Our communities are here, because many of them could not exist any other way.

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Mon, 17 May 2021 23:55:31 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2021/03/remember-the-internet/618350/
<![CDATA[The internet didn’t kill counterculture—you just won’t find it on Instagram]]> https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/

Search Google Images for ‘counterculture’ and it overwhelmingly returns black-and-white photos of young people all now over 60.

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Tue, 19 Jan 2021 23:55:14 -0800 https://www.documentjournal.com/2021/01/the-internet-didnt-kill-counterculture-you-just-wont-find-it-on-instagram/
<![CDATA[The Communal Mind · LRB 21 February 2019]]> https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind

Afew​ years ago, when it suddenly occurred to us that the internet was a place we could never leave, I began to keep a diary of what it felt like to be there in the days of its snowy white disintegration, which felt also like the disintegration of my own mind. My interest was not academic.

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Mon, 06 Jan 2020 19:34:09 -0800 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v41/n04/patricia-lockwood/the-communal-mind
<![CDATA[BuzzFeed’s Jonah Peretti on Making the World a Meme]]> http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/buzzfeed-jonah-peretti-2010s.html

As the decade began, there were rea­sons to be optimistic: America had elected its first black president, and despite a global recession just two years earlier, the world hadn’t cascaded into total financial collapse.

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Wed, 01 Jan 2020 06:16:25 -0800 http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2019/11/buzzfeed-jonah-peretti-2010s.html
<![CDATA[The Psychology of Paranoid Irony | transmediale]]> https://transmediale.de/content/the-psychology-of-paranoid-irony

Beginning with the figure of Roko’s Basilisk, a hypothetical vengeful future AI that emerged in online forums, Ana Teixeira Pinto launches her analysis of the psychological state engendered by online interaction that has led to a seemingly paradoxical set of views: totally paranoid yet ironically

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Mon, 11 Nov 2019 06:25:12 -0800 https://transmediale.de/content/the-psychology-of-paranoid-irony
<![CDATA[A Complete Taxonomy of Internet Chum - The Awl]]> https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/

This is a bucket of chum. Chum is decomposing fish matter that elicits a purely neurological brain stem response in its target consumer: larger fish, like sharks.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:13 -0700 https://www.theawl.com/2015/06/a-complete-taxonomy-of-internet-chum/
<![CDATA[Taboola, Outbrain and the Chum Supply Chain]]> https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply

Ranjan here, and today I'm talking Taboola and Outbrain. Most of my work in media has been on subscriptions and branded content, so I've never played in the depths of ad-tech darkness. But, I spent seven years trading currency derivatives and am well versed in the art of arbitrage.

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Mon, 27 May 2019 17:28:11 -0700 https://themargins.substack.com/p/taboola-outbrain-and-the-chum-supply
<![CDATA[How the JPEG Changed Everything | Frieze]]> https://frieze.com/article/how-jpeg-changed-everything

‘Every two minutes, people upload more images to the internet than existed in total just 150 years ago’

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Thu, 07 Feb 2019 05:00:52 -0800 https://frieze.com/article/how-jpeg-changed-everything
<![CDATA[Internet of Evil Draft Syllabus - Google Docs]]> https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_9BGlGrSN9PzYNDUJvVzO6vtnwG6GGU-wVSxuTEpA4/edit?usp=sharing&usp=embed_facebook&usp=embed_facebook&usp=embed_facebook&usp=embed_facebook

HDCC 106: Internet of Evil Dr. Daniel Greene College of Information Studies Hornbake South, Room 4105D dgreene1@umd.edu Schedule office hours via https://calbird.com/daniel-greene/students Trevor Paglen’s Vampire (Corpus: Monsters of Capitalism), “Adversarially Evolved Halluc...

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Fri, 28 Dec 2018 09:09:46 -0800 https://docs.google.com/document/d/1T_9BGlGrSN9PzYNDUJvVzO6vtnwG6GGU-wVSxuTEpA4/edit?usp=sharing&usp=embed_facebook&usp=embed_facebook&usp=embed_facebook&usp=embed_facebook
<![CDATA[Google and Facebook Didn't End Data Privacy - The Atlantic]]> https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-age-of-privacy-nihilism-is-here/568198/

A barista gets burned at work, buys first-aid cream at Target, and later that day sees a Facebook ad for the same product. In another Target, someone shouts down the aisle to a companion to pick up some Red Bull; on the ride home, Instagram serves a sponsored post for the beverage.

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Tue, 28 Aug 2018 05:33:37 -0700 https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/08/the-age-of-privacy-nihilism-is-here/568198/
<![CDATA[You're wrong about how the internet fuels conspiracy theories]]> https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/06/18/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories/

Conspiracy theories are popular and there is no doubt that the internet has fuelled them on. From the theory that 9/11 was an inside job to the idea that reptilian humanoids rule the world, conspiracy theories have found a natural home online.

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Sat, 07 Jul 2018 08:32:44 -0700 https://thenextweb.com/syndication/2018/06/18/youre-wrong-about-how-the-internet-fuels-conspiracy-theories/
<![CDATA[Exploring The Digital Ruins Of 'Second Life' - Digg]]> http://digg.com/2018/second-life-in-2018

I logged into "Second Life" in the year 2018 A.D. It still exists, sort of. Residents and businesses began fleeing for more popular social networks long ago. Vast acres of land are abandoned or sparsely populated by the few remaining diehard users.

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Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:02:29 -0700 http://digg.com/2018/second-life-in-2018
<![CDATA[list: net-art]]> https://www.facebook.com/morehshin/posts/10155588735011867

Working on a project and am looking for good examples of net art/story telling works. Any suggestions?

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Tue, 01 May 2018 04:55:20 -0700 https://www.facebook.com/morehshin/posts/10155588735011867