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Established AI field signal Signal 14d ago
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Parents are at a breaking point — AI companies see an opportunity.

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Hypervisible Sarah T Roberts, PhD

“A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...”

10 experts discussed this · 28 posts
Hypervisible : A consistent pitch by the makers of ai wearables is that they solve the problem of getting to know your child. www.businessinsider.com/parents-brea...
Hypervisible : That tracking is bad too? 🤷🏿‍♂️
Hypervisible : Ok
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Primary source businessinsider.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 9d ago
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ChatGPT AI flyer pandemic essay

We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’

8 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Meredith Broussard 404 Media Sarah T Roberts, PhD Jason Koebler Sam Cole James Grimmelmann tante Clive Thompson

““It might feel like you’re ‘saving time and money,’ but you’re actually slowly turning your brand into something generic like all the other brands out there using AI tools.” www.404media.co/we-are-livin...”

“This “good enough” attempt at graphic design…isn’t.”

5 experts discussed this · 16 posts
Jason Koebler: ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
Jason Koebler: good on you! i see soooo many of them now
Jason Koebler: sadly and perveresly i wanna see these but i see so many fewer presentations these days
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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
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Ai dictation app wispr

3 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Sarah T Roberts, PhD Anna Mills Neil Turkewitz

““Because writing, when it comes down to it, is a higher form of thinking. Writing takes time and editing and a deep level of commitment. Writing is a rigorous process to understand your own thoughts and then lay those thoughts out in a way that convinces or…”

“Using a dictation app doesn't have to mean we consider that to be the end of the writing process. Not understanding why Amy Wang is so negative here. Why not dictate and then edit and revise? https://t.co/gxvSVnUQeS”

2 experts discussed this · 9 posts
Anna Mills: Using a dictation app doesn't have to mean we consider that to be the end of the writing process. Not sure why Amy Wang is so negative here. Why not dictate and then edit and revise? www.nytimes.co…
John Warner: Dictation as a method for "writing" is, in and of itself, a skill that most of us don't have because we don't practice it. Instead, our speech to text sounds like...speech, which is not good fodder…
John Warner: Richard Powers at least for a time used voice to text to dictate his novels, but this took practice and a very specific kind of mind/talent to do. People could get good at dictating text for the pu…
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Established AI field signal Signal 10d ago
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The revolt against metas pervert

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Brian Merchant Hypervisible Sarah T Roberts, PhD evacide

“It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...”

“Please enjoy this interview with @hypervisible.blacksky.app about Meta's pervert glasses. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...”

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Brian Merchant: It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: It was a pleasure to chat with the great @hypervisible.blacksky.app about the backlash to Meta's AI glasses, and to luxury surveillance in general. www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-revolt...
Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Thanks for the shout-out, @hypervisible.blacksky.app ! It sounds so crazy when you say it out loud...
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Primary source bloodinthemachine.com ↗
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Sarah T Roberts, PhD: Try teaching college students. You won’t be quite so dismissive then.
Pwnallthethings: I think the "LLMs can't reason" stuff is mostly sophism these days. They plainly do not "reason" in the way humans do, and are certainly not always correct or good at it, but they are also doing th…
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2 experts · 12 posts · 5d ago
Sarah T Roberts, PhD Amy Hoy
Amy Hoy: "if the youths hate ai so much, why do half of them use it at least weekly?" "if people hate their jobs so much, why do they go there every day?" gee, i don't know, must be some kind of special rea…
Amy Hoy: people who hate climate change nevertheless fly sometimes and also drive an old, cheap car that burns gas? confusing. obviously nobody'd ever use a thing that has systemic effects they hate. not to…
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