[ExI] Twitter to develop own AI for self-defence

[BillK]

On Sun, 19 Mar 2023 at 13:43, spike jones via extropy-chat
<extropy-chat at lists.extropy.org> wrote:
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> Thx BillK, this should be interesting.  Musk is a co-owner of ChatGPT, and is by far the richest of its co-owners.
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> Musk's tweet last week said he was going to make Twitter open source on 31 March, presumably this year.  That means anyone who is dissatisfied with Twitter can go make their own social network using free software.  Software hipsters, is that what he means by open source?
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> Yesterday's Twitter Files 19 by Matt Taibbi was most astonishing:
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> https://twitter.com/mtaibbi/status/1636729166631432195?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1636729166631432195%7Ctwgr%5Ef4baeea58f085331472661b9ee4687d8b72929a2%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.themainewire.com%2F2023%2F03%2Ffeds-stanford-social-media-censored-true-claims-about-covid-19-twitter-files%2F
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> Presumably Musk's AI will stop Taibbi from posting stuff like Twitter Files 19, for it is clearly influencing public opinion (hey, TF19 dang sure worked on me.)  So Musk plans to deploy AI to stop himself?  I don't even need AI.  I can stop myself using ordinary I.
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> spike
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I assumed that by 'manipulation' Musk meant lies, propaganda or half-truths.
He wants the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth!
So it will be the new Twitter censor.
(Whether that includes Musk criticism we shall have to wait and see).  :)


BillK