Sam Gilbert

Author: Good Data ( Researcher: tech & politics @BennettInst. Advisor @StateUpHQ. Bestyrelsesmedlem @DataFGood. Previously @manypets_uk

[Sam Gilbert @samgilb]

Good Data is published today!

Inside you will find:

🎯 A critique of surveillance capitalism theory
🔓 A case for data openness
🦸‍♀️ A new theory of digital power
☕️ Some hilarious startup anecdotes
🐶 Unexpected pugs

It's widely available (eg: https://t.co/MvXIL8PJ8j)

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But perhaps it’s time for those who believe growth is a national necessity to meet people where they are:

https://t.co/SetxrDmsDL

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Media and public discussion of the economy usually takes for granted that growth is both well-understood and benign. But why should it?

https://t.co/SetxrDmsDL

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Economists who engage with degrowthers tend to poke fun at what they perceive as their naivety, utopianism, and lack of intellectual rigour.

https://t.co/x8ooAXq8Ka

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@CJAMcMahon @pardoguerra @davies_will "Since I use the internet only for specific purposes and not very intensively, I have no experience of social networks like Facebook and cannot speak to the solidarising effect of electronic communication, if there is any" - Habermas in 2010

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@STS_News hacked AI sexbots could murder people, AI safety experts warn

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@rowlsmanthorpe I just hope they don't celebrate with a burger

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@aidaxbaradari @be_inaudible Feature request: activates when you utter "muffliato"

[Rasmus Kleis Nielsen @rasmus_kleis]

"There is little sense in discouraging citizens from using ChatGPT and other generative AI tools for environmental reasons" @samgib writes, but "transparency requirements may be needed to force AI companies [so their] carbon footprint can be quantified" https://t.co/wHUlbvR3GR

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I suspect this finding will surprise everyone who has never run a Facebook Ads campaign and no one who has.

A feature of the format is constant feedback from users - advertisers are incentivized to run ads people like (or at least don't object to).

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

Huh. People don’t actually mind ads on Facebook, at all.

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Replika Facebook ads archive & commentary: https://t.co/I7H00kvptA

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These are ads for the AI companion app Replika, run from burner Facebook pages.

A current FTC complaint claims Replika harms users by encouraging emotional dependence on its companions.

I've made an archive of the ads for online safety researchers & campaigners [link in reply]

[Paul Schofield @pschofie79]

Facebook is aggressively targeting me with these ads. I think it says a lot about society that we're now assuming that *this* is the answer to our problems, rather than antidepressants.

[Lee Vinsel @STS_News]

I've been waiting for someone to compile what we know + don't know about the environmental impacts of "AI." Sam does a fine job. While there are real impacts, it's also clear people have been significantly overplaying them, especially in comparison to lots of ordinary activities.

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@STS_News @Laurenebridges Thanks so much for your kind words Lee - and for your Peoples and Things episode with Lauren, that was a big help.

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Should we be worried about the climate impact of our generative AI use? 🤔

It's complicated. Drawing on work by @Laurenebridges @STS_News @SashaMTL @AndyMasley + data from Ofgem, Water UK & the IEA, I tried to bottom it out 🙏

Warning: may distress roast potato lovers 🥔

[Bennett Institute for Public Policy @BennettInst]

Is ChatGPT bad for the environment?

Rather than focusing on individual generative AI use, more transparency is needed from AI companies on the climate impact of developing their models, writes @samgilb

https://t.co/rLufvyyGch

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@testingcatalog

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The Department of Government Efficiency sure sounds like a case of crypto populism

https://t.co/VlpNtifeJQ

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Always nice to get a boost from @syllabus_tweets 🙏

🔗https://t.co/j0XdpAQRNW

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In a new paper in the Journal of Moral Philosophy,@AmandaRGreene and I argue that both the sovereign and the structural models of power are inadequate when it comes to tech companies like Meta and OpenAI.

https://t.co/PIEnUoJ6To

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[Bennett Institute for Public Policy @BennettInst]

In the 2nd part of this blog, @samgilb discusses the implications of policies which seek to restrict or ban business models based on targeted digital advertising. He says such policies can be expected to have regressive effects when applied to tech giants.
https://t.co/oWyIE62Gg4