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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/17

    If your *boss* thinks an AI can do your job, and AI critics are all running around with their hair on fire, shouting about the coming AI jobpocalypse, then maybe the AI really *can* do your job?

    locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doct

    There's a name for this kind of criticism: #CritiHype, coined by #LeeVinsel, who points to many reasons for its persistence, including the fact that it constitutes an "academic business-model":

    sts-news.medium.com/youre-doin

    17/

    #critihype #leevinsel
  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/17

    If your *boss* thinks an AI can do your job, and AI critics are all running around with their hair on fire, shouting about the coming AI jobpocalypse, then maybe the AI really *can* do your job?

    locusmag.com/2020/07/cory-doct

    There's a name for this kind of criticism: #CritiHype, coined by #LeeVinsel, who points to many reasons for its persistence, including the fact that it constitutes an "academic business-model":

    sts-news.medium.com/youre-doin

    17/

    #critihype #leevinsel
  3. Strypey @[email protected] ·

    It's not a "claim", Lee, it's a proven fact that they can influence emotions, which are known to influence behaviour:
    theguardian.com/technology/201

    "Some of the clearest examples of criti-hype today center on the role of social media in our lives, especially the claim that its designers can directly and effectively influence our behavior."

    #LeeVinsel, 2021

    scribe.rip/youre-doing-it-wron

    #leevinsel
  4. Strypey @[email protected] ·

    It's not a "claim", Lee, it's a proven fact that they can influence emotions, which are known to influence behaviour:
    theguardian.com/technology/201

    "Some of the clearest examples of criti-hype today center on the role of social media in our lives, especially the claim that its designers can directly and effectively influence our behavior."

    #LeeVinsel, 2021

    scribe.rip/youre-doing-it-wron

    #leevinsel