Like much AI boosterism, this interview reveals more about the booster's own limited vision of humanity, work, and the pre-AI generative capabilities of computers (which makes sense given the company he works for and its responsibility for some of the most user-hostile software ever conceived). 4/4
Tangentially, the ability for the full House to pass a bill without publicly posting the final text sure is problematic.
This looks like the ticket! (It’s still problematic and annoying that this shows up only in the Congressional Record entry and not the official entry for the bill itself, which still lists only the original text.)
👀 The House has passed the Legislative Branch Agencies Clarification Act, which would reconfigure the appointment process for the Librarian of Congress and the Register of Copyrights. The devil's in the details, separation-of-powers-wise, so I'm waiting to see the authoritative text before I react.
This piece is 🔥
His method for assessing consumer utility ~boils down to conflating the *quantity* of use (mostly of "free" versions of highly subsidized generative AI services) with the capability to properly perform highly elastic credence services that many people need but can't afford. 2/4
Another new piece: Jawbreaking and Counterboning, now out in @connlrev.bsky.social. It uses the FCC Chair's threats over Jimmy Kimmel to explore the role of corporate resistance to unlawful demands and the weird dynamics of making the First Amendment ~mandatory. 1/2 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
This one's pretty short and accessible, so I won't spoil all the fun with a long thread. But I've written up a short director's commentary with a summary and some reflections on the limits of legal doctrine to make sense of unlawful conduct. 2/2
Barf. Microsoft's AI CEO gave some of the most subtly offensive possible responses to @reckless.bsky.social's grilling here. The worst were the retreats on metrics and value of generative AI services, which implied an shockingly low opinion (and understanding) of human needs and human labor. 1/4