Mark Ghuneim

The internet has gone through several stages of development, each marked by significant events and challenges.

Web 1.0, the publishing era, was characterized by utility and storefronts. However, this era was also marked by the dot com crash at the turn of the century, which led to a period of economic turmoil.

Web 2.0, the social web, saw the rise of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok. This period was marked by the proliferation of bots and the weaponization of ad tech, leading to the spread of misinformation and the manipulation of public opinion.

Web 3, the unstable crypto web, saw the rise of decentralized finance (DeFi) FTX, and other failures. This period was characterized by a lack of true utility and convenience, as well as the erosion of privacy.

Web 3.0, the generated web, is focused on AI-powered features and applications. However, the use of AI raises concerns about data privacy and the potential for biased or unfair decision-making.

As society becomes increasingly aware of the harms caused by each technology era, we should re-consider the risks and societal and environmental impact of each phase. This includes evaluating the safety, privacy, and utility of future technologies and considering the potential harms and their impact on society and individual privacy.

More importantly it is understanding what the true values are in the context of the harms, to carefully consider the potential consequences of new technologies and ensure that they are developed and used responsibly in order to promote the well-being of individuals and society as a whole.

“Elon Musk, interviewed by Sarah Lacy, “A Fireside Chat with Elon Musk,” Santa Monica, CA, July 12, 2012,

https://pando.com/2012/07/12/pandomonthly-presents-a-fireside-chat-with-elon-musk/.

Not only was the car uninsured, but Peter Thiel was not wearing a seat belt. “It was a miracle neither of us were hurt,” says Thiel.

See Dowd, “Peter Thiel, Trump’s Tech Pal, Explains Himself.”

Excerpt From : The Alignment Problem – Brian Christian

Cindy Sherman training an AI and using it to generate work.

Comments from peers in both approval and speaking

about experimenting themselves.

• Everything we know about chatgpt
• My cyberpunk city, my cyberpunk world
• Drowning in AI
• Building A Virtual Machine inside ChatGPT
• Everyone’s Over Instagram  
• Ruangrupa Tops 2022 Edition of ArtReview’s Power 100
• Generative AI: autocomplete for everything
• The Collapse of a Digital Nation: What the Demise of Twitter Means to the Internet and the World Beyond It
• This Sam Altman on Twitter thread re GPT-3
• Deepmind neurips2022
• Open AI was partially trained on Twitter data
• Add ChatGPT to Google search results
• I have been long generative art and short NFT’s
• Deforum

The use of chatGPT, a large language model trained by OpenAI, raises a number of ethical and privacy concerns, including:

Bias: chatGPT is trained on large amounts of data, which can potentially include biased or discriminatory information. This could lead to biased or unfair outputs from chatGPT, which could have negative impacts on individuals or groups.

Accountability: chatGPT is a machine learning system that operates autonomously, without direct human oversight or control. This means that it can be difficult to hold chatGPT accountable for its actions or outputs, and it can be challenging to understand and explain the reasons behind its decisions and recommendations.

Control: chatGPT’s ability to process and analyze large amounts of data, and to provide instant and personalized responses, means that it can potentially have a significant influence on individuals and organizations. This could raise concerns about who has control over chatGPT and its outputs, and who is responsible for ensuring its ethical and responsible use.

Privacy: chatGPT processes and stores large amounts of personal and sensitive data in order to operate and provide assistance. This data could potentially be accessed or misused by unauthorized individuals or organizations, leading to privacy breaches and other risks.

Transparency: chatGPT operates using complex algorithms and mathematical models, which can be difficult for non-experts to understand and interpret. This lack of transparency could make it difficult for individuals and organizations to understand how chatGPT makes decisions and provides recommendations, and could limit their ability to verify or challenge its outputs.

Overall, these ethical and privacy concerns highlight the need for careful and responsible use of chatGPT and similar technologies, and for the development of appropriate regulations, guidelines, and standards to ensure their ethical and accountable use.

Back during the web 2.0 era circa 2011 I wrote and spoke about swarm behavior, specifically about attention swarms around media.

As the AI era of the web emerges we see that swarm continues to inform. In this post Collective Intelligence for Deep Learning: A Survey of Recent Developments – the section on image generation using collective intelligence helps solidify that swarm is the flow to know. This example with unique constraints that act as catalysts for collaboration in particular.

We’ll start by discussing the idea of image generation using collective intelligence. One cool example of this is a collective human intelligence: the Reddit r/Place experiment. In this community experiment, Reddit set up a 1000×1000 pixel canvas, so reddit users have to collectively create a megapixel image. But the interesting thing is the constraints Reddit had imposed: each user is only allowed to paint a single pixel every 5 minutes:

This experiment lasted for a week, allowing millions of reddit users to draw whatever they want. Because of the time constraint imposed on each user, in order to draw something meaningful, users had to collaborate, and ultimately coordinate some strategy on discussion forums to defend their design, attack other designs, and even form alliances. It is truly an example of the creativity of collective human intelligenc

Understanding swarm behaviors both macro and micro in all aspects of learning and behavior continues to be important

The Generative Al Application Landscape

Link to full res image The Generative Al Application Landscape revised from sequoia capital.

Which areas are the richest to further empathy, knowledge, thinking, ideation, creation….

Random notes and links

…and why I have been thinking a wiki or a Digital Garden might be useful

Paul Graham “A person I have known for more than ten years, who I consider trustworthy, is convinced the cryptocurrency economy will shortly experience a systemic risk. I don’t know anything concrete, but if I were exposed, I would be concerned.” OTH Bill Ackerman believes “that crypto can enable the formation of useful businesses and technologies that heretofore could not be created. The ability to issue a token to incentivize participants in a venture is a powerful lever in accessing a global workforce to advance a project”

FT’s Jo Ellison —Abba, The Crown and deep-fake entertainment “But while many are now exploring the limits of what can be done to bend an audience’s perception, there is also a growing contingent who still crave the corporeal and real.”

Surveillance Too Cheap to Meter. We should tax surveillance data it is free now.

Mesh tool?
Briarproject.org/how-it-works/

When we went digital, a disturbing aspect for creators of art was the loss of agency over when their work is released. e.g…leaked by others when it may or may not be finished The marketplaces that allow for these windows are no friends of art. They are exploitative and do not respect the creative process. Hilma af Klint’s family criticises the NFT sale of the artist’s sacred paintings. The Swedish artist’s family say the digital drop contradicts the artist’s will and goes against her artistic intentions

QOTD

This quote from Alcuin c.735–804 English scholar and theologian seems right for today in light of Space Karen‘s destruction of Twitter… ec audiendi qui solent dicere, Vox populi, vox Dei, quum tumultuositas vulgi semper insaniae proxima sit. letter 164 in Works (1863) vol. 1 “And those people should not be listened to who keep saying the voice of the people is the voice of God, since the riotousness of the crowd is always very close to madness”

Lexicon…

The EFF series on Mastodon and the fediverse.

Algospeak NYT- How TikTok Is Changing Language