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arctother writes:
Fake, AI-generated references have made it into published academic articles, leading AI bots to generate further citations of the same, non-existent journals. Meet "Disaster Studies Quarterly," a completely hallucinated academic journal, with a growing list of citations; Google and Perplexity.AI both take the bait, promising an endless feedback loop of misinformation based on previous hallucinations.
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arctother writes:
UberDRIVE—Uber’s simulation/video game/recruiting tool—is, at best, just a poor copy of a much more interesting video game – driving for Uber. The main innovation of Uber, and other smartphone-enabled “e-hailing” car services, is the insertion of a new interface into the human-to-human, on-the-street interactions between drivers and passengers. Uber attempts to transform the cab-driving and -riding experience through the deployment of an allegorithm: the productive joining of a framing narrative (or “allegory”) and software-mediated control (or “algorithm”). Understanding how allegorithms shape experience will become more and more important as they are increasingly deployed with mobile interfaces to reshape and “augment” social interactions.“Ingress,” you are already thinking; but you should really think of“Uber.”
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arctother writes:
At Taxicab Subjects, a takedown of Morgan Stanley analyst Adam Jonas's vision of how driverless cars and the "shared economy" will lead us to a society of "shared autonomy."
From the article:
"But really, “autonomy” is still not the right word for it. Just as the old-fashioned “automobile” was never truly “auto-mobile,” but relied, not only on human drivers, but an entire concrete infrastructure built into cities and smeared across the countryside, so the interconnected “autonomous vehicles” of the future will be even more dependent on the interconnected systems of which they are part. To see this as “autonomy” is to miss the deeper reality, which will be control. Which is why the important movement reflected in the chart’s up-down continuum is not away from “Human Drivers” to “Autonomous” cars, but from a relatively decentralized system (which relies on large numbers of people knowing how to drive) to an increasingly centralized system (relying on the knowledge of a small number of people)."
