Étienne Brown
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Étienne Brown
@etiennebrown.bsky.social
Philosophy prof. living in the fog. Co-organizer of PhilMod.org. Currently at San José State University. Starting in July: Associate Prof. at the University of Ottawa (Canada).
I know you think I can see this post, but I can't.
February 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Or shadow banning
February 20, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Also possible the changes haven’t kicked in yet?
February 18, 2025 at 3:38 PM
I thought the fact-checkers worked for third-party org and were not internal moderators. Find anything on Meta ending partnerships with third-party org?
February 18, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I don’t know the culture at Open AI, but I see your point. But doesn’t that mean we need to be more careful about who we allow to develop powerful models? Are we not really in trouble if Open AI doesn’t care that much?
February 8, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Thanks! Two questions: (1) Does open source not entail the risk that people who don’t seriously care about safety will develop models too fast? (e.g. DeepSeek). (2) Can you not fight the concentration of private power through gov. regulation (public AI enterprises, antitrust, etc.)?
February 8, 2025 at 4:41 PM
This is how I’ve always understood Aristotelians’ point about practical wisdom.
February 6, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"We don’t want the teenage kids to encounter bullying content only then to have to report it; we want them to be spared the burdens of encountering it in the first place."
January 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Contrary to most takes I've read, Jeff argues that increasing the confidence an AI classifier requires to flag speech as hate speech is a defensible option, but ceasing to use classifiers to detect hate speech (as Meta is doing) is not.
January 31, 2025 at 5:22 PM
I think that’s a flex. Dadcred.
January 18, 2025 at 7:39 PM
And just to try to keep BlueSky a positive space: I think that debates about decentralized moderation are fascinating, and I'm grateful for advocates of decentralization to have proposed a way to diminish the power of Musk, Zuckerberg, etc. I see this as public service.
January 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM