[DIY AI, more on Musk, and the NYT strike]
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MEDIA BITS AND BYTES – DECEMBER 13, 2022
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December 13, 2022
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_ DIY AI, more on Musk, and the NYT strike _
Credit, Carol Yepes
* How Monopoly Enshittified Amazon
* ChatGBT: DIY AI
* Communication or Entertainment?
* More on Musk
* _Capital B_ and the Georgia Runoff
* China Protests and Low-Tech Organizing
* YouTube’s Favorite Fascist
* Solidarity With NYT Strikers
* The Evolution of the Right to Privacy
* To Do: Socialize Social Media
HOW MONOPOLY ENSHITTIFIED AMAZON
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By Cory Doctorow
Medium
Amazon touts its $31b “ad” business widely, and analysts repeat it
without any critical interrogation, proclaiming that Amazon is
catching up with the Googbook ad-tech duopoly. But nearly all of that
“ad” business isn’t ads at all — it’s payola.
CHATGBT
* GOOGLE FACES A SERIOUS THREAT
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By Parmy Olson, Bloomberg
* HOW TO TALK TO CHATGPT
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By Lucas Ropek, Gizmodo
* THE EVOLUTION OF CHATBOTS TECHNOLOGY
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By Marcus Law, Technology
* AI IS FINALLY GOOD AT STUFF
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By Rebecca Heilweil, Vox
* OPENAI MAY BE DANGEROUS
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By Ax Sharma, BleepingComputer
COMMUNICATION OF ENTERTAINMENT?
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By Aaron Baar
Social Media Today
Increasingly, it’s algorithms that are defining what we see in each
app, and in that respect, it’s more about straight-up entertainment
than it is about staying up to date with your friends. But what does
that mean for the broader social media industry, and how marketers go
about re-aligning their approach within this shift?
MORE ON MUSK
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By Robert Mackey and Micah Lee
The Intercept
Several prominent antifascist organizers and journalists have had
their Twitter accounts suspended in the past week, after right-wing
operatives appealed directly to Musk to ban them and far-right
internet trolls flooded Twitter’s complaints system with false
reports about terms of service violations.
_CAPITAL B_ AND THE GEORGIA RUNOFF
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By Feven Merid
Columbia Journalism Review
_Capital B_ is a nonprofit digital media startup aimed at Black
readers. In Atlanta, where _Capital B_ established its first local
newsroom, reporters have been traversing the city, talking to Black
voters.
CHINA PROTESTS AND LOW-TECH ORGANIZING
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By Viola Zhou and Meaghan Tobin
Rest of World
Protesters emerged in multiple cities, alerting each other to gather
with a combination of coded WeChat messages, virtual private networks,
and some guesswork. A protester in Shanghai told _Rest of
World_ that over the weekend, his friends cautiously passed around
information about upcoming protests on WeChat under the guise of
dinner plans.
YOUTUBE’S FAVORITE FASCIST
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By Morgan Jones
Jacobin
The fascist writer Julius Evola is loved by monologuing YouTubers,
Greece’s far-right Golden Dawn party, and Steve Bannon. The hallmark
of his work is a rejection of modernity, and his popularity is owed to
the persistence of antidemocratic ideas on the Right.
SOLIDARITY WITH NYT STRIKERS
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By Chris Wallace
NME
The striking workers at the _New York Times_ have called on the
public to join them on the “digital picket line,” asking them to
stay away from any _New York Times_ platforms –
including _Wordle_, which the _New York Times_ acquired earlier
this year. During the strike, _Wordle _fans have used Twitter to
express solidarity with striking workers and encourage others to do
the same.
THE EVOLUTION OF THE RIGHT TO PRIVACY
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By Marina Manoukian
The Baffler
The concept of privacy isn’t ubiquitous worldwide, and between the
invention of the camera and the invention of the internet, privacy in
the United States has undergone numerous mutations.
TO DO: SOCIALIZE SOCIAL MEDIA
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By Jeremy Gilbert and Alex Williams
openDemocracy
Platforms like Twitter have been revealed as highly-motivated actors
possessing enormous economic, political, and editorial
power. Technologies such as Decentralised Autonomous
Organisations offer potential models for platforms that are owned and
controlled by users and workers.
* Amazon
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* ChatGBT
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* artificial intelligence
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* social media
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* TikTok
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* Elon Musk
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* twitter
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* far right
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* Capital B
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* Georgia
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* China
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* YouTube
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* Fascism
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* Julius Evola
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* new york times
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* strike
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* privacy
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* monopolies
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* Big Tech
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