Strypey @strypey@mastodon.nzoss.nz
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Anyone need more bad news? MediaWatch this week is full of it.

For a start, there's the govt cancelling a focused tax on international online services making money from Aotearoa. A sensible policy I hadn't even heard was on the cards. While continuing with a link tax on currently dominant platforms - an unprincipled, short-term policy that has mostly failed in Oz, Canada and elsewhere - and the online age verification farce;

https://www.rnz.co.nz/podcast/mediawatch?share=3b55abf5-5b70-408a-8d70-c7d1514d875d

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#podcasts#RNZ#MediaWatch#MOLE#AI
Strypey
activity timestamp 2 weeks ago
Then there's the increased enthusiasm for using Trained MOLEs in news media. Including absurd plans among some kool-aid drinkers to use a MOLE to evaluate the accuracy and political bias of articles written by humans.

Then the existence of "agentic AI". "Agentic automation" describes standard automation system, where every part of the can be checked and tweaked to ensure it's achieving a desired goal. Agentic AI replaces all that with an inscrutable Trained MOLE 🤦‍♂️

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