Meta employees have deluded themselves so far, so I doubt anything will change. Anyone that cares about their actual impact on the world already left Meta. If you were ok with Meta allowing election interference and disinformation, what’s a little transphobia thrown in going to do?

And since Zuck is, at the end of the day, a garden variety coward, we will get to see him reinvent himself again again again again when the tide turns.

Meta’s role in the proliferation of disinformation has always demonstrated that Zuck never actually cared about harms his company enabled. Free speech absolutism, small government, and maga politics support is apathy and shirking of responsibility so he welcomes them with open arms

ACAB includes the linter ✊

Yeah, I would assume so, but that does seem to be one area that people are no longer as needed. Another is probably server infrastructure, with cloud services requiring fewer people to manage. Still my guess is that it’s more that you hear about layoffs in segments that aren’t doing well

Where’s the data to show the significant layoffs? My guess would be layoffs at AAA studios and mobile being where all the growth is. Another thing that’d be interesting to see is the impact of Unity/Unreal - way fewer companies build their own engines now.

But they can’t submit a pull request in your name, only one in their own name containing commits that appear to be from you. I think for most orgs with private repos this isn’t much of a concern. I’m not saying it’s nothing, just that there are much larger security gaps that most orgs accept.

What does it add if you’re using GitHub with proper branch protections?

It it acceptable that the US is so bad at building infrastructure? No. But have Elmo’s companies ever shipped something on schedule? Also no.

A problem with Affirmative Action discussions that leave us perpetually on our heels is that we accept a framing that disregards the fact that it is our current status quo that provides unearned opportunities to unqualified people.

Just look at all the mediocre mfs in charge. How they get there?

That was unnecessarily antagonistic. “Can better follow” does not at all sound like a claim of expertise

But the contract was “your posts are yours and you give permission to display them on Bluesky, but you can delete them at any time if you wish”. I don’t think that it should be illegal to use public information for ML, even if copyrighted, but it’s not exactly what people consented to

Is redistributing it indiscriminately on huggingface meaningfully different in the eyes of the courts than using it yourself? I would’ve assumed it was but I don’t know

Hi, so I've spent the past almost-decade studying research uses of public social media data, like e.g. ML researchers using content from Twitter, Reddit, and Mastodon.

Anyway, buckle up this is about to be a VERY long thread with lots of thoughts and links to papers. 🧵

A dataset can be anything. Omitting what the data was makes this suspicious

AI gives people without artistic skills ability to represent their ideas.
AI art isn't different from other forms of automation, automation replaces human workers.
We need basic income to avoid economic catastrophe.
There are no jobs that can't be replaced with technology.

People are trained on other people's work. Why does it matter if AI does it?

You’re not going to convince anyone who has seen benefits if you deny that they exist. AI helps a ton with translation and coding at least