[nonostantement #410] - fanzinet / ai slop vs reddit / oilwell

Now with MORE DJs!

Welcome to nonostantement: a weekly newsletter with plastic, tough, and sober stuff found all over the Internet.

Hi there, Joele here. I spend an embarrassing amount of time online for work, and along the way I end up collecting interesting things. Every Sunday, I bundle the best of that week and send it straight to your inbox. I’ve been doing it for over seven years.

No music this week.

🇮🇹 Italian version (poorly translated by Google)

👉 The nonostantement archive - everything I sent in the past 7 years

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Fire in the Evening, 1929 by Paul Klee

#PEOPLE

• FanziNet: AnaLogikal Knot Map V. 77-92 (Release Candidate)
  Map of Italian punk and post-punk fanzines from the 1980s

• On the Consumption of AI-Generated Content at Scale
  “In this post, I want to explore what I’ve been feeling as a consumer of information in the AI era, and then reflect on it as a researcher.”

• Aging Out of Fucks: The Neuroscience of Why You Suddenly Can’t Pretend Anymore
  Your brain’s middle finger to people-pleasing

• OpenAI Is in Trouble
  The start-up is falling behind in the AI race.

• @photosofpetcemeteries_

• AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone
  Reddit is considered one of the most human spaces left on the internet, but mods and users are overwhelmed with slop posts in the most popular subreddits.

• AI is upending the porn industry
  Synthetic smut will soon be flooding the internet, bringing new opportunities and perils | International

• Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image
  Rail services were cancelled after a ‘hoax’ picture of a damaged bridge appeared on social media

• Poems Can Trick AI Into Helping You Make a Nuclear Weapon
  It turns out all the guardrails in the world won’t protect a chatbot from meter and rhyme.

• [Video] - This Is Why Everyone Is a DJ Now
  “Their true diagnosis is stage 4 individualism, a terminal condition where everyone’s on stage and there’s no one left in the audience.”

• Oilwell - Meditate through the meltdown
  A wellness app to help you embrace climate chaos, created by Edelman, Oil and Gas PR. From Smog Breathing Exercises, to Lifeless Rock Visualizations, to Wildfire ASMR.

#TECH

• The tech leaders transforming Syria after Assad
  Members of the Syrian tech community share their hopes for the country and its digital future.

#SOCIALMEDIA

• We mapped 121,000 videos to figure out how TikTok learns your interests
  We re-created TikTok’s algorithm based on 1,100 users’ feeds. Explore which topics are in your feed and see what the algorithm is least likely to show you.

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#THEDARKSIDE

• We Had 400 People Shop For Groceries. What We Found Will Shock You.
  “We found that Instacart is using AI algorithms to charge customers different prices for the same items. The scary part? It’s not just online. It’s in physical grocery stores, too.”

• OpenAI loses fight to keep ChatGPT logs secret in copyright case
  OpenAI must produce millions of anonymized chat logs from ChatGPT users in its high-stakes copyright dispute with the New York Times and other news outlets, a federal judge in Manhattan ruled.

• Fedi.Tips on mastodon:
  ”YouTube is now using AI to alter people’s videos without permission.”

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