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Multiple readings Is AI Profitable Yet? Markets & investment · 2 attributable reactions Live tension Sam altman decoded interview ai Concern & critique · 4 attributable reactions
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Established AI business Analysis 12d ago
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Is AI profitable analysis essay

Is AI Profitable Yet?

13 experts across 6 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Meredith Broussard Olivia Guest Damien Williams Sasha Costanza-Chock Prof. Dr Beth Singler Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Roland Meyer Stephen Turner +5
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“Is AI profitable yet? isaiprofitable.com”

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Established AI field signal Signal 12d ago
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Sam altman decoded interview ai

12 experts across 4 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Mark Riedl Justin Hendrix Hypervisible Damien Williams Drew Harwell steven t. piantadosi Dare Obasanjo e.w. niedermeyer +4
2 experts discussed this · 10 posts
e.w. niedermeyer: he really does look like he's about to step off into a bold new future with none of us in it
Mary Branscombe: Right over the cliff
e.w. niedermeyer: the new Vanity Fair cover seems to subtly propose an interesting possibility: perhaps Sam Altman just has to accept some bad things happening in the name of human flourishing? www.politico.com/news…
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Primary source politico.com ↗
Established AI field signal Resource 3d ago
contralab AI resource site

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2 experts are actively discussing the implications.

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Roland Meyer Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal

“I am hiring a postdoc for four years to work with a fantastic technical + humanistic team on this SNSF funded project on AI and interpretation: contralab.online/philology . If you can work on LLM interpretability/explanability, see contralab.online/job ...”

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Ranjodh Singh Dhaliwal: I am hiring a postdoc for four years to work with a fantastic technical + humanistic team on this SNSF funded project on AI and interpretation: contralab.online/philology . If you can work on LLM i…
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Developing AI field signal Signal 1d ago

The nationalist dream reality is AI generated

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Roland Meyer

“«Quick, cheap, repetitive and effective – far-right AI-generated imagery is flooding … social media. Behind the kitsch facade lie parallels to Nazi propaganda, only now mass-media image-making is available to all and insidious, as illustrated by a Slovakian…”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 15d ago
slopaganda AI reactionary patterns essay

Slopaganda: Reaktionäre Muster

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Roland Meyer

“Die fünfte und vorletzte Folge von #Slopaganda, meiner Online-Kolumne für die @woz.ch, handelt von #TikTok, #FruitDrama und davon, dass auch vermeintlich rein kommerzieller #Slop keineswegs unpolitisch ist: «Reaktionäre Muster» www.woz.ch/kolumnen/202...”

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2 experts · 10 posts · 15d ago
Roland Meyer René Walter
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Building & implementation · 1
René Walter: No wonder the paranoid style is having it's moment. Socmed increases the perception of (false) threats by those mechanisms of overconnection creating a general atmosphere of suspicion. Thing is, pe…
Roland Meyer: «Explicit, though not transparent» is key here: You can endlessly gather evidence for suspicious connections without establishing criteria for their relevance or settling on their meaning. As both …
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2 experts · 5 posts · 14d ago
Prof. Dr Beth Singler Roland Meyer
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Questions & unknowns · 1
Roland Meyer: I am reading your interpretations of contemporary politics, of AI and of society in general in which you use paranoia, schizophrenia, psychosis, … in psychoanalysis these terms always refer to the …
Roland Meyer: Subjects are effects of media, and their ability to work on their syptoms thus obviously depends on the media used?
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