Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs
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Ctrl-Alt-Speech is a weekly podcast about the latest news in online speech, from Mike Masnick and Everything in Moderation‘s Ben Whitelaw.
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In this week’s round-up of the latest news in online speech, content moderation and internet regulation, Mike and Ben cover:
- Grammarly turned me into an AI editor against my will and I hate it (Platformer)
- Grammarly has disabled its tool offering generative-AI feedback credited to real writers (Engadget)
- Grammarly Is Facing a Class Action Lawsuit Over Its AI ‘Expert Review’ Feature (Wired)
- Who’s a Better Writer: A.I. or Humans? Take Our Quiz. (NY Times)
- Molly vs the Machines review – a powerful story of love, loss and the dangers of social media (Guardian)
- UK: New Molly Russell documentary provides further evidence that social media needs complete redesign (Amnesty International)
- WhatsApp is launching parent-linked accounts for pre-teens (TechCrunch)
- Meta urged to boost oversight of fake AI videos (BBC)
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Comments on “Ctrl-Alt-Speech: Writing Some Wrongs”
The scale of reach and ability to granularly manipulate social media feeds means that social media is not the same as radio. It’s not the same as D&D. It’s not the same as videogames (well, older videogames. Modern ones like Roblox and Fortnite and more can get pretty manipulative) nor is it the same as comic books.
It really is different.
The attempts to paint people concerned with social media and its exertnalities, no matter how reasonable those people are, as if they’re misinformed and uptight moral busybody strawmen that you’d see on your typical episode of South Park, are getting really old.