Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I truly don’t know how to process Ben Thompson’s essay today. He’s been my steady source of clear-eyed tech takes for like 6 years now and this one feels like straight sci-fi. I’m not an AI doomer, but I’m def in my feelings rn 😩 https://stratechery.com/2023/from-bing-to-sydney-search-as-distraction-s
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Avi 💙
@savvyavi
Also, this…. https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/chatgpt-ai-messages-microsoft-bing-b2282491.html
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Lol fascinating tidbits but god it’s a nightmare trying to find the original sources in that piece 😂
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Avi 💙
@savvyavi
That’s intentional, I think.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
Modern journalism 🙃
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Avi 💙
@savvyavi
Part of it might be to protect the sources for reasons that might not be clear to us now.
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I’d be much more inclined to take their “journalistic integrity” seriously if this wasn’t the miasma through which I must consume their content 😐 https://i.imgur.com/TpBvUam.jpg
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Avi 💙
@savvyavi
What is they’re hackers? I’m nit saying they are. But what if their entire intention is to find the vulnerable parts. Would you think it’s better to identify them?
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Cameron Armstrong
@cameron
I’m not concerned about any individual ID, but w as close of a read as I think you can do of this article it just looks like summaries of Reddit and Twitter threads. The problem is deliberately inflammatory language to describe secondhand experiences and if you’re gonna do that the least you can do is cite your wor
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Avi 💙
@savvyavi
Gotcha. I now understand your thought.
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