So Facebook disclosed it’s cooperation with the U.S. government after revelations by a spy currently being sheltered by the Russian government, but it won’t disclose it’s cooperation with groups affiliated with the Russian government. Got it.
“The problem isn’t that Facebook’s management isn’t behaving responsibly, MacKinnon said: It’s that Facebook may be unmanageable.”
“Forbidden Planet”, but with Facebook instead.
One such experiment ended when the AIs began talking to each other in an improvised language the coders were worried they would soon find themselves unable to translate. This was misreported—several publications said the AIs rapidly became too smart—but the truth is a little more worrying: AIs can learn to make incomprehensible decisions, even when they’re not particularly smart.
Yikes.
Facebook is a joke. I can no longer post comments on a couple of websites that use only Facebook to allow people to post comments. They keep blocking the accounts I set up because I refuse to use my real name. Using your real name on the internet is not a good idea. Both Politico and Huffington Post not only make you use Facebook to post, but also won’t allow you to read their comments unless you are signed in to a Facebook account. So, I’m done with them.
And the Nazi’s are “monsters from the id”?
Have you tried using a fake name that is also a real name? Like combining some plausible foreign or name parts together to make a name?
This is not all that bad. After all we now have a president that makes incomprehensible decisions even though he is not particularly smart.
The problem is that they require I show them photo ID proof that I am who I say I am. One time they asked me to send a picture of myself, which I did, but it was ignored. I’m just done with Facebook. They are a menace to our society. The thing I find frustrating is that there are so many obvious Russian trolls posting on those websites. Facebook seems to be fine with them, even when they post really offensive things. But me? I can’t post because I won’t give them a copy of my drivers license to prove I’m who I say I am.
Ah, sharing and openness…Facebook says they’re great for everybody, except of course Facebook.
I’ve frequently said that we can’t get to artificial intelligence until we can create artificial stupidity. We may be closing in on that goal.
Human interpretability of machine decisions is a common and well-known problem. Nothing really strange happened here except that they did a poor job of supporting that. Or were you saying Yikes! for some other reason…?
I think two systems developing the ability to communicate in a way that’s not decipherable to their designers is worth a yikes.
How about “Vlad Putin”?
Yeah, I can go with that. But it is the collective community that created and permitted them to roam about. I have stayed away from Facebook just for the idea of it. And so far, it has proven to me that my concerns were valid. I am trying to decide if it was an eventuality. The world we sit in exactly at this moment seems scripted from a science fiction novel. Whether we have solutions, I find myself thinking, Facebook is something we just have to get over and go on. We tried it, there is benefit, but no one really addresses the risks. Time to sit back and think it over and do better.
Well, it’s a bug. Most bugs are a problem that need to be fixed. Some of them can be disastrous. This one sounds more whimsical than anything. Don’t be misled into thinking they’re in some way lifelike. They’re not. It’s just that their use of English ascii tokens instead of binary makes it seem that way.
The position taken in this article is frankly horrifying: it advocates violation of the key right that all of us have to organize anonymously. It’s all very good to talk about Facebook supporting clearly nefarious entities, but the same argument suggests that people running ads for or against a local measure should be unmasked. That’s vile and despicable.
I do agree (and others have also mentioned it), that the idea of censoring ads for political correctness is itself problematic. But I think Thielman addresses that in his insightful and thoughtful conclusion:
The problem isn’t that Facebook’s management isn’t behaving responsibly, MacKinnon said: It’s that Facebook may be unmanageable.
IMO, Facebook is destined to degenerate into an archipelago, each island of which resembles Lord of the Flies.
This is what you get when you hand private companies control of all your public forums. (Sure, people can still go out in the town square and give speeches, but all the cars have their windows up and the few remaining pedestrians have their earbuds in.)
“Our AI algorithms are no worse (or dangerous or unpredictable) than Donald Trump” somehow doesn’t strike me as a good long-term marketing position.