Tom Stackpole
@tom_stackpole
Senior Editor @HarvardBiz covering technology and innovation. The future is soon, probably. he/him
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every company training artificial intelligence models realizes their problem is finding enough data across the internet to make their products live up to their sky-high future expectations By @CadeMetz @ceciliakang @sheeraf @stuartathompson @nicoagrant nytimes.com/2024/04/06/tec…
Read @tom_stackpole on housing crisis on Martha’s Vineyard, the onetime regular place turned celebrity rich people playground where he grew up. Lessons for everywhere, particularly places where second homes/short-term rentals push out year-round residents motherjones.com/politics/2024/…
tremendous work from the best guy i know, my boy .@tom_stackpole motherjones.com/politics/2024/… very much haunted by this graf:
As a linguist, I'm really curious to watch how a better understanding of history might change the modern use of the word Luddite. As someone concerned about how tech is being used to concentrate power, I want everyone to learn from this, stat.
This week @bcmerchant is back to talk with @parismarx about the real history of the Luddites and why we should be inspired by them. In this clip, Brian explains how the divide on the “machine question” is as relevant today as it was in 1811. Full ep: podcasts.apple.com/podcast/the-re…
CLJE Fellow Mark Erlich's new book takes a deeper look into the history and dynamics of the building trades, and offers solutions for the future of the industry. "The Way We Build: Restoring Dignity to Construction Work" is out now. press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p087…
Joining Threads from Instagram is easy, but migrating from Twitter is a headache! This shows why we need social media based on open protocols – as @WhatTheLJW and I explain today in @HarvardBiz: hbr.org/2023/07/thread…
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Threads Foreshadows a Big — and Surprising — Shift in Social Media
Threads, Meta’s Twitter competitor, has become the fastest downloaded app in history. One of the reasons for this is because it allows users to port over their profiles and follows from the already...
A can’t-miss episode if you’re trying to make sense of this AI hype cycle
The new Dig ep w/ @mer__edith, @bigblackjacobin, @sarahbmyers cracks open AI hype machine that simultaneously promises salvation and warns of apocalypse, concealing a more mundane dystopia of labor domination, surveillance, and military-industrial profits. thedigradio.com/podcast/ai-hyp…
Whoa. Adobe is offering *full* legal indemnification for copyright lawsuits over generated images that enterprise users produce in Firefly. Their model is trained on licensed & out of copyright images, which others don't do - so it's a big throw-down. fastcompany.com/90906560/adobe…
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Adobe is so confident its Firefly generative AI won’t breach copyright that it’ll cover your legal...
Anything created using Firefly’s text-to-image generation tool will be fully indemnified by the company.
we still don't have a home for our paper and if any journals are interested in working with us to get it published, reach out to me here's the current abstract:
My first quote in the @FT For context: Alarmist statements on the part of mining industry that Chile’s move to increase state role in lithium sector are *tactical.* Raising the specter of capital flight is one way to induce gov to water down their plans on.ft.com/3Ny3TvC
No, it could not. Full stop. If any Hollywood exec claims they're replacing workers with AI, know that people are working as scabs behind the scenes. Because, I repeat, AI cannot replace human workers. Writers, editors, and otherwise.
“I’ve had a couple of higher-level people ask, if a strike does happen, how quickly could they spin up an AI system to just write the scripts? And they’re serious.” @AshleyCullins & I looked into the A.I. question during the writers strike: hollywoodreporter.com/business/busin…
This is such a powerful example. And TBH one of the best ways to "regulate" AI: organized workers demanding dignified and safe working conditions, rejecting the idea that AI-enabled degradation of work is inevitable!
I'm incredibly proud of how transparent our union is. In the @WGAWest's strike announcement, we included a list of our proposals, and the AMPTP's responses. Read it for yourself: it explains in black and white we're forced to go on strike.
Writers in other fields should be paying attention to the WGA negotiations. Here's the current position on the use of AI.
I'm not arguing w the fact that AI poses risks. I AM ceaselessly annoyed by the pattern This is not new or novel. It was women - @timnitGebru @mmitchell_ai, me, et al - who rang the AI alarm years ago & were retaliated against, pushed out for doing so. nytimes.com/2023/05/01/tec…
🚨 BREAKING: In a newly leaked benchmark from Stanford, OpenAI's GPT-4 has just blown past the infamous Bärnhauer-Czernijewski Boundary Condition. Here's what it means for or B2B SaaS, a 🧵
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