mastodon 4.7.3Resigned from Twitter's T&S Council 4 insane days before #Twitter ended it (story here: https://www.netfamilynews.org/where-did-my-twitter-go-and-other-end-of-2022-notes); youth and youth rights advocate, founder/writer, NetFamilyNews.org, SocialMediaHelpline.com, Net Safety Collaborative; safety adviser to social media platforms other than the bird one. she/her
A lot has happened around generative AI safety in the last few weeks. “Safety?” You might ask? Yes. Lately it seems to have been moving almost as fast as the development of #genAI and its large language models (#LLMs). I thought it'd be good to freeze the frame - take some time pull it all together in one post (or try) and see if I could give it all a little context: https://www.netfamilynews.org/generative-ai-july-2023-freeze-frame Let me know your thoughts, ok?
I've been rooting for this and other #Twitteralternatives since we lost the old #birdsite, and now we have #threads – which I think has a better chance of filling the social broadcasting hole #muskstwitter opened up than any of the "clones" to date. More thoughts here: https://www.netfamilynews.org/threads-the-new-social-media-kid It'll never be truly decentralized, right? But its promise to be interoperable makes things interesting, don't you think?
@ArtBear@mastodonapp.uk @davidallengreen@mastodon.green You probs saw this: https://youtu.be/XTyPJz7DwxI
Given all the legislation in the works now, I had to revisit what research is saying about the online safety “control paradigm” & just some of the reasons why it’s not good for children - https://www.netfamilynews.org/lawmakers-controlling-and-banning-kids-doesnt-help - linking to remarkable scholarship in 4 countries, including Sonia Livingstone’s latest on where “screen time” came from & how very unhelpful is this concept on which 4 US senators base their argument for a “child protection” law
