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Stephen Downes

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This is Mastodon doing what Mastodon does best, hosting a small and engaged conversation on a specific topic. Notice it includes people from a number of different servers (or 'instances') and isn't filled with marketing, spam or offensive content. Will Mastodon always be this way? I don't know. Anyhow, the topic is also pretty interesting, prompted by Catherine Cronin quoting Naomi Klein saying "AI machines aren't 'hallucinating'. Their makers are" and Alan Levine responding "I refuse to use any verbs for AI beyond "generating" It does not think, hallucinate, lie, imagine, create, write, tease, sing, feel, dance, joke, smile, empathize, ache, wonder." See also: Alan Levine's blog post emerging from the conversation.

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