Giant companies like Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Google Search and YouTube all have been claiming they can't can't be bias because moderation, trends, and recommendations are not done manually but with automated systems. Finally Congress is learning just being an automated algorithm doesn't make something impartial. Look at Microsoft's twitter bot that was made to be racist after just one day because it's algorithm responded to inputs. Not just that. It these algorithms often take into account flags by users which pretty much means if a bunch of users flag posts that have a specific word in them, the algorithm will start deciding that the word is inflammatory even if it is mundane. Say a lot of people starts flagging a word or hash tag like "#learntocode" then that word can cause you to become banned or get moderated.. that actually happened with the mundane phrase "#learntocode". Data science uses training data that often contains factors like race, sex, income, and education level that when included cause an algorithm to train to moderate or recommend people differently based on your assigned group. This in itself is not that horrible but it does create a divide among groups and could even be used to treat people differently based on a protected class which is a big no-no. It's about time regulation catches up and recognizes algorithms can and often are bias.
Shouldn't they craft something simple and contemporary that actually address the internet we know? Why are they reinstating rules from before the internet ever existed and trying to apply it to the internet? Sure some of the 2015 rules should probably be in place but it's dumb to lump it together with the old rules.
YouTube already demotes you if you swear and ensures popular videos with "toxic" behavior never trend or get recommended. The problem is even videos as inane as PewDiePies latest congratulations song can get 22 million views in a day but still not hit trending because some arbitrarily decided nothing he creates can hit the trending list. Meanwhile Stephen Colbert can say trump is sucking Putin's cock and that video gets recommended because "if it's okay for tv it's okay for YouTube." You absolutely don't want to be on the wrong end of a reviewer defining you and that is what happens all the time. Numerous people are claimed to be "toxic" even just for not liking a brand or something other people like, as if just not loving something is a crime. You can never let a small group of people or even an algorithm define toxicity ir some people will always be shut up and left silent.
I can't believe how amazing a male pull would be. Finally men could not worry about a girl deciding to keep a baby they don't want and ruining their life with child support for 18 years.. without having a vasectomy. This could be amazing if it works!
The music labels have decided to sue the US postal service for still delivering packages sent by infringers who mailed copied CDs. Music labels say priority mail enablles the CDs to be shared even more rapidly.
While it is not being flat out printed in mass quantities, the inflation I'm speaking of is the decrease in it's purchasing power. While the overall quantity may be a static number, it's transactions slowly were done in smaller and smaller fractions of coins. It is digital so it has basically infinite coins already, depending on how small you chop it up, with quantity of coin determined relative to the value of coin.
They are saying 95% of trading is fake but they want to create a fund that ignores that 95% of fake trading and just focuses on real trading. It won't work though because the regardless that 5% will be impacted by the 95% of fake trading.
There was hope that it would become a true currency that started getting accepted everywhere when countries allowed it or said they wouldn't ban it. It turned into a speculative investment instead. It was already accepted at very few websites and services but with the massive decrease in value even less websites and services are accepting it as a payment. Who would invest or accept payments in a currency with massive inflation? Basically no one that has alternatives. The downward spiral cycle is now self perpetuating. Even if a company does accept a bitcoin payment they want to convert it out of bitcoin as soon as possible so they don't take a loss, this just lowers bit coins value even further and the cycle continues. There has to be some massive event to stop the spiral and change public perception. Fake trade volumes can only hold off a collapse so long.
Just because something is on a computer it isn't AI. At best this looks like normal computer functionality. Input a specific thing will result in output of a specific thing. This is not AI even if it is complex computing.
There are companies out there that basically mass copyright claim people hoping to steal their money. Twitch streamers and youtubers are approached by those companies so they can basically just attack any video with that person in it and try to claim it. The person gets a percent of the claimed video and the company takes a percent. It is insane how bad the system at Youtube is right now. You can't let the people trying to take more money decide whether something is fair use. That is just insane, in every case the claimant will say it isn't fair use just to steal the revenue from a video. It happens tons even to the biggest streamers in the world.
People still get demonetized just for singing or even humming songs. MrBeast got a video demonetized for singing less than 3 seconds of a a song. Yes, just singing it, and the person claiming the copyright had 1 video uploaded. But because Youtube lets the claimant decide whether it is fair use or not, random people like that can just do whatever they want, and particularly the big studios are basically free reign to choose what lives and what dies. There was also a guy who got demonetized for playing a song on a paper towel dispenser. Yes. The sound of the paper towel dispenser playing the song got the video copyright claimed. These are just extreme examples but millions of videos are getting demonetized just for singing a song with no music in the background so I don't see this new strategy working out.
Any other payment service charge will be around 2% but they try to justify 30% (but hey you get to 15% eventually right?). Apple also acts like they are the ones causing the downloads... no dude you are just a large market share of phones. Not every app gets 300 million downloads, it is the quality of the app that causes that. Stop trying to take credit for other people's work.
Given I haven't read anything but literally just this article on Minds... but I have no idea what crypto has to do with this website. I get it may be used to make a near permanent decentralized record of things but it sounds like that may not be that permanent given the answer above? And the other half of crypto I don't understand is the value of the tokens/points/karma or whatever it might be. Tell me if I'm way off, but upvotes/shares/etc will earn crypto? You then use that crypto to buy more sharing or advertising of your posts?
""There has never been a time when "everyone knew that information was not reliable."""
Actually there was. Schools would not accept any web sources at all even Wikipedia or the top google search result.
As a kid people got information from "the internet" and everyone knew that information was not reliable. Facebook is just like "the internet" used to be.. it's just an amalgamation of tons of users random pages/posts/links. Facebook absolutely should not be the one curating people posts or eliminating links in the name of correcting stupidity or protecting people from misinformation. It should be open and free to all to be as stupid as you like. If your education doesn't teach you not to trust random internet advice then you probably were home schooled.
Steaming is much closer to television than it is to movie theaters. I'd be surprised if any Netflix movies were even nominated, most are horrible. Most and maybe all of Netflix's hits are series not movies.
They are so poor compared to what they could be with better screens and more powerful computers. They would still be good enough to take off if they also weren't insanely expensive. Main stream VR and AR is still 10 years away due to cost/quality combination.
Politically the two areas are very closely related and neither are good for Amazon. No where can be as bad as Seattle is for corporations who tried to basically pass an "Amazon tax" which basically just targeted Amazon/Amazon employees. Luckily that got repealed as soon as they found out Amazon had decided to cancel it's construction of new buildings in Seattle and also was searching for two new HQ locations. New York may not be as socialist as Seattle's city council but it's still not as corporation friendly as many other cities.
I always log in to a firstname.lastname@gmail.com but if I try to test send an email to firstnamelastname@gmail.com then I do not receive the email. So my point is in basic testing this dotted theory does not work. Also if I try to log in to the non dotted email it does not let me sign in. I assume it's this way for everyone?
New and better tech is always a hard change and usually costs more. The only way to bring that back is more subsidies for electric. Eventually the tech will get there where it becomes cheaper but we are still in the growth phase and that phase needs more of a kick start from tax credits.
I think I get what your saying. In the stock market a company may be worth 1 million dollars but only have $1000 in cash and $100,000 in materials. The value is what people see them doing with those materials for resale value etc. It's all about confidence really. Same with these digital items. When a game's popularity goes down so does the price of it's digital goods. I just find it funny that 20 years ago no one was paying for skins and every company that did micro-transactions or charged for updates was hated. Now the whole free-to-play thing has taken off people can accept that digital cosmetics cost money. It's essentially people with money subsidizing those that want to play for free. Anyways I went on a tangent.
Electric is the future for a clean environment. We absolutely need a new tax credit to keep manufacturers producing and selling more electric cars. China is years ahead of the U.S. is solar already and will end their dependence on fossil fuels much sooner than the U.S. If the U.S. doesn't catch up now it will be left with a failing economy and dying earth.
Slashdot Mirror
Giant companies like Microsoft, Twitter, Facebook, Google Search and YouTube all have been claiming they can't can't be bias because moderation, trends, and recommendations are not done manually but with automated systems. Finally Congress is learning just being an automated algorithm doesn't make something impartial. Look at Microsoft's twitter bot that was made to be racist after just one day because it's algorithm responded to inputs. Not just that. It these algorithms often take into account flags by users which pretty much means if a bunch of users flag posts that have a specific word in them, the algorithm will start deciding that the word is inflammatory even if it is mundane. Say a lot of people starts flagging a word or hash tag like "#learntocode" then that word can cause you to become banned or get moderated.. that actually happened with the mundane phrase "#learntocode". Data science uses training data that often contains factors like race, sex, income, and education level that when included cause an algorithm to train to moderate or recommend people differently based on your assigned group. This in itself is not that horrible but it does create a divide among groups and could even be used to treat people differently based on a protected class which is a big no-no. It's about time regulation catches up and recognizes algorithms can and often are bias.
Shouldn't they craft something simple and contemporary that actually address the internet we know? Why are they reinstating rules from before the internet ever existed and trying to apply it to the internet? Sure some of the 2015 rules should probably be in place but it's dumb to lump it together with the old rules.
YouTube already demotes you if you swear and ensures popular videos with "toxic" behavior never trend or get recommended. The problem is even videos as inane as PewDiePies latest congratulations song can get 22 million views in a day but still not hit trending because some arbitrarily decided nothing he creates can hit the trending list. Meanwhile Stephen Colbert can say trump is sucking Putin's cock and that video gets recommended because "if it's okay for tv it's okay for YouTube." You absolutely don't want to be on the wrong end of a reviewer defining you and that is what happens all the time. Numerous people are claimed to be "toxic" even just for not liking a brand or something other people like, as if just not loving something is a crime. You can never let a small group of people or even an algorithm define toxicity ir some people will always be shut up and left silent.
I can't believe how amazing a male pull would be. Finally men could not worry about a girl deciding to keep a baby they don't want and ruining their life with child support for 18 years.. without having a vasectomy. This could be amazing if it works!
The music labels have decided to sue the US postal service for still delivering packages sent by infringers who mailed copied CDs. Music labels say priority mail enablles the CDs to be shared even more rapidly.
While it is not being flat out printed in mass quantities, the inflation I'm speaking of is the decrease in it's purchasing power. While the overall quantity may be a static number, it's transactions slowly were done in smaller and smaller fractions of coins. It is digital so it has basically infinite coins already, depending on how small you chop it up, with quantity of coin determined relative to the value of coin.
They are saying 95% of trading is fake but they want to create a fund that ignores that 95% of fake trading and just focuses on real trading. It won't work though because the regardless that 5% will be impacted by the 95% of fake trading.
There was hope that it would become a true currency that started getting accepted everywhere when countries allowed it or said they wouldn't ban it. It turned into a speculative investment instead. It was already accepted at very few websites and services but with the massive decrease in value even less websites and services are accepting it as a payment. Who would invest or accept payments in a currency with massive inflation? Basically no one that has alternatives. The downward spiral cycle is now self perpetuating. Even if a company does accept a bitcoin payment they want to convert it out of bitcoin as soon as possible so they don't take a loss, this just lowers bit coins value even further and the cycle continues. There has to be some massive event to stop the spiral and change public perception. Fake trade volumes can only hold off a collapse so long.
Just because something is on a computer it isn't AI. At best this looks like normal computer functionality. Input a specific thing will result in output of a specific thing. This is not AI even if it is complex computing.
There are companies out there that basically mass copyright claim people hoping to steal their money. Twitch streamers and youtubers are approached by those companies so they can basically just attack any video with that person in it and try to claim it. The person gets a percent of the claimed video and the company takes a percent. It is insane how bad the system at Youtube is right now. You can't let the people trying to take more money decide whether something is fair use. That is just insane, in every case the claimant will say it isn't fair use just to steal the revenue from a video. It happens tons even to the biggest streamers in the world.
People still get demonetized just for singing or even humming songs. MrBeast got a video demonetized for singing less than 3 seconds of a a song. Yes, just singing it, and the person claiming the copyright had 1 video uploaded. But because Youtube lets the claimant decide whether it is fair use or not, random people like that can just do whatever they want, and particularly the big studios are basically free reign to choose what lives and what dies. There was also a guy who got demonetized for playing a song on a paper towel dispenser. Yes. The sound of the paper towel dispenser playing the song got the video copyright claimed. These are just extreme examples but millions of videos are getting demonetized just for singing a song with no music in the background so I don't see this new strategy working out.
Any other payment service charge will be around 2% but they try to justify 30% (but hey you get to 15% eventually right?). Apple also acts like they are the ones causing the downloads... no dude you are just a large market share of phones. Not every app gets 300 million downloads, it is the quality of the app that causes that. Stop trying to take credit for other people's work.
How could you ever trust her to tell the truth on her research again?
Given I haven't read anything but literally just this article on Minds... but I have no idea what crypto has to do with this website. I get it may be used to make a near permanent decentralized record of things but it sounds like that may not be that permanent given the answer above? And the other half of crypto I don't understand is the value of the tokens/points/karma or whatever it might be. Tell me if I'm way off, but upvotes/shares/etc will earn crypto? You then use that crypto to buy more sharing or advertising of your posts?
""There has never been a time when "everyone knew that information was not reliable.""" Actually there was. Schools would not accept any web sources at all even Wikipedia or the top google search result.
As a kid people got information from "the internet" and everyone knew that information was not reliable. Facebook is just like "the internet" used to be.. it's just an amalgamation of tons of users random pages/posts/links. Facebook absolutely should not be the one curating people posts or eliminating links in the name of correcting stupidity or protecting people from misinformation. It should be open and free to all to be as stupid as you like. If your education doesn't teach you not to trust random internet advice then you probably were home schooled.
Steaming is much closer to television than it is to movie theaters. I'd be surprised if any Netflix movies were even nominated, most are horrible. Most and maybe all of Netflix's hits are series not movies.
Gab has proven not to censor things so far and taken a lot of heat for it.
They are so poor compared to what they could be with better screens and more powerful computers. They would still be good enough to take off if they also weren't insanely expensive. Main stream VR and AR is still 10 years away due to cost/quality combination.
Something wrong with you. What does rent price have to do with socialism?
Politically the two areas are very closely related and neither are good for Amazon. No where can be as bad as Seattle is for corporations who tried to basically pass an "Amazon tax" which basically just targeted Amazon/Amazon employees. Luckily that got repealed as soon as they found out Amazon had decided to cancel it's construction of new buildings in Seattle and also was searching for two new HQ locations. New York may not be as socialist as Seattle's city council but it's still not as corporation friendly as many other cities.
I always log in to a firstname.lastname@gmail.com but if I try to test send an email to firstnamelastname@gmail.com then I do not receive the email. So my point is in basic testing this dotted theory does not work. Also if I try to log in to the non dotted email it does not let me sign in. I assume it's this way for everyone?
New and better tech is always a hard change and usually costs more. The only way to bring that back is more subsidies for electric. Eventually the tech will get there where it becomes cheaper but we are still in the growth phase and that phase needs more of a kick start from tax credits.
I think I get what your saying. In the stock market a company may be worth 1 million dollars but only have $1000 in cash and $100,000 in materials. The value is what people see them doing with those materials for resale value etc. It's all about confidence really. Same with these digital items. When a game's popularity goes down so does the price of it's digital goods. I just find it funny that 20 years ago no one was paying for skins and every company that did micro-transactions or charged for updates was hated. Now the whole free-to-play thing has taken off people can accept that digital cosmetics cost money. It's essentially people with money subsidizing those that want to play for free. Anyways I went on a tangent.
Electric is the future for a clean environment. We absolutely need a new tax credit to keep manufacturers producing and selling more electric cars. China is years ahead of the U.S. is solar already and will end their dependence on fossil fuels much sooner than the U.S. If the U.S. doesn't catch up now it will be left with a failing economy and dying earth.