The Coup @audreywatters#ai#edtech#highered
“The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.”
Shane Smith
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As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
«��Musk, with a fortune of more than $400bn (£330bn), has warned: “We have to reduce spending to live within our means.” But he doesn’t mean “we”, he means you. »
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Musk will fight handing this over tooth and nail—because if he actually hands over the algorithm it will reveal how much he has tampered with it to artificially dampen the reach of progressive accounts, proving he is 100 times worse than those he replaced. https://t.co/tG6hNWNKG4
Tiktok has been banned in the US on the grounds that China could use it "to manipulate and control Americans by spreading propaganda and misinformation." In other words, China *might do* exactly what Elon Musk *has done* with X.
It's a blatant double standard.