Sam Gilbert
@samgilb
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Author: Good Data (https://t.co/l70CeA6ZzI). Researcher: tech & politics @BennettInst. Advisor @StateUpHQ. Bestyrelsesmedlem @DataFGood. Previously @manypets_uk
Copenhagen, Denmark
Joined October 2011
Good Data is published today!. Inside you will find:. 🎯 A critique of surveillance capitalism theory .🔓 A case for data openness .🦸♀️ A new theory of digital power .☕️ Some hilarious startup anecdotes .🐶 Unexpected pugs . It's widely available (eg:
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RT @rasmus_kleis: "There is little sense in discouraging citizens from using ChatGPT and other generative AI tools for environmental reason….
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I suspect this finding will surprise everyone who has never run a Facebook Ads campaign and no one who has. A feature of the format is constant feedback from users - advertisers are incentivized to run ads people like (or at least don't object to).
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These are ads for the AI companion app Replika, run from burner Facebook pages. A current FTC complaint claims Replika harms users by encouraging emotional dependence on its companions. I've made an archive of the ads for online safety researchers & campaigners [link in reply].
Facebook is aggressively targeting me with these ads. I think it says a lot about society that we're now assuming that *this* is the answer to our problems, rather than antidepressants.
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RT @bulletprooflama: Crucial context for how we think about AI's ecological impact: "a ChatGPT query uses 0.0029 KWh of electricity. Is tha….
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Should we be worried about the climate impact of our generative AI use? 🤔. It's complicated. Drawing on work by @Laurenebridges @STS_News @SashaMTL @AndyMasley + data from Ofgem, Water UK & the IEA, I tried to bottom it out 🙏. Warning: may distress roast potato lovers 🥔.
Is ChatGPT bad for the environment?. Rather than focusing on individual generative AI use, more transparency is needed from AI companies on the climate impact of developing their models, writes @samgilb .
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The Department of Government Efficiency sure sounds like a case of crypto populism.
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Always nice to get a boost from @syllabus_tweets 🙏. 🔗
In a new paper in the Journal of Moral Philosophy,@AmandaRGreene and I argue that both the sovereign and the structural models of power are inadequate when it comes to tech companies like Meta and OpenAI. . 1/🧵.
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RT @BennettInst: In the 2nd part of this blog, @samgilb discusses the implications of policies which seek to restrict or ban business model….
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RT @BennettInst: In the first of a 2-part blog, @samgilb challenges the widely-held belief that targeted digital advertising is morally wro….
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A big thank you for helpful comments and discussion to @DrDuncanBell @dannybuerkli @jcohen570 @hpfrye @IasonGabriel @timoreilly @EricOrts @FilippaRonquist @jtansorge @mikarv @NikVenkatesh and to the reviewers and editors at @brillphilosophy 🙏. 4/.
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We call it "empowering power" and we think it raises different questions of legitimacy - and implies different policy responses - from those currently dominating public debate about tech regulation. 👉 . 3/.
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The form of power unleashed by tech companies is "both tractable and diffuse – tractable because it can be deliberately used for a wide range of purposes, and diffuse because it can be wielded by billions of users, alone or in concert". . 2/
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In a new paper in the Journal of Moral Philosophy,@AmandaRGreene and I argue that both the sovereign and the structural models of power are inadequate when it comes to tech companies like Meta and OpenAI. . 1/🧵.
Instead of situating such nastiness as lying outside capitalism - by inventing imaginary battles for "behavioral surplus" (not profit share!) or presenting today's companies as new sovereigns, we must theorize power AND capitalism. Let's hope we'll do better with generative AI!.
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Delighted Josh has been elected, he brings deep and much-needed tech policy expertise to Parliament.
I am honoured and humbled that voters in Makerfield have placed their trust in me. The result of this election is clear - the country has voted for change. The hard work of delivering for working people starts today. I can't wait to get started.
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Update: postal ballot has just arrived
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No sign of postal votes here in Denmark, I am a de facto citizen of nowhere #ukgeneralelection2024
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That time when Habermas dismissed the idea that social media is a Habermasian public sphere:. "I have no experience of social networks like Facebook and cannot speak to the solidarising effect of electronic communication, if there is any".
Happy birthday Jurgen Habermas! . Between Facts and Norms remains the only book that I’ve ever physically thrown, but that’s not to say that I didn’t learn a ton from it.
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