Scott Rosenberg

It could certainly be a DDOS attack. But DDOS looks a lot like "many people trying to view content from a server that lacks enough capacity to serve that volume of people."

If you’re in the Bay Area and you still have power, charge your phone.

OpenAI's drama looks like the result of a culture clash on the nonprofit board over its mission. Nonprofit boards aren't like other boards! They're responsible for a mission, not for maximizing shareholder value. My analysis at @axios axios.com/2023/11/18/sam…

I did it, I wrote in @axios about how the revelation that the Expensify Lounge was really an experiment in "back to work" psychology should make us all feel like lab rats. axios.com/2023/10/26/exp…

Thrilled to share the news that @meganmorrone will be joining @axios starting next week as technology editor, working with me and our intrepid tech coverage team

@rachaelmyrow @pabischoff @UCLA But it’s not normalized for population so your top 4 states are the top 4 states by population…. .

"If we look at the number of [medical data] breaches by US states, we can see that California had the most by far, accounting for 545 (10 percent) of the 5,478 data breaches." buff.ly/3RhPDWl via @pabischoff @UCLA

This will be a very exciting book to read. Congrats. (No, no relation)

This is one important insight and fear I share. I don't worry for myself because I will never stop writing. I worry that the practice of writing-as-thinking will diminish and fade as fewer people *need* to do it.

"Turning us all into paper clips" is the trope of choice for describing runaway super-AI over-optimization that could destroy humanity. Also: A previous generation's colossal chatbot flop took the form of ... a talking paper clip. Coincidence???

A "tappable web presentation" short-story-let serves as the framing narrative for a new album produced by the two-guys-and-AI group Cotton Modules (@robinsloan and @agentsdelfuturo). I highly recommend you take the few minutes to read-click through it ooo.ghostbows.ooo/story/

@ianbremmer Internet connected devices, I imagine

a truly horrifying trend

Kinda knew that my blog and everyone else's was part of the general AI training data pool but it was epiphanic to see it confirmed in the amazing work from WaPo's @nitashatiku and colleagues. I wrote about the experience in my latest @axios axios.com/2023/04/24/ai-…

This is a perfectly reasonable story nytimes.com/2023/04/15/bus… and yet: "Faking it" is never over in Silicon Valley, it just goes into hiding for a while, then re-emerges in the next boom. Live long enough, you see these cycles repeat. Beware all "end of" narratives.

Welcome Ryan to @Axios and the Login team!

@Kyle_A_Morse Thank you! That was the fine reporting work of @ashleyrgold, I was merely the messenger

In today’s Login: @scottros nails the framing by scoring this “saying the quiet part out loud” quote. Big Tech would rather talk about ANYTHING other than competition. This is why Big Tech ❤️ House R’s.

@aschweig It's the equivalent of a captcha but you have to prove you're real by doing a commute and clocking in in person

Started re-reading Dreaming in Code by @scottros last night. Was so interesting to me when it was a new book, but it’s just as good now that software development has evolved for another 15+ years. #computerhistory #SoftwareDeveloper @mkapor @andyhertzfeld

@Jason It doesn't "want" anything

let the AI/chatgpt say whatever it wants so we can learn about the bias inside of the system — don’t covertly steer it Just put a HUGE disclaimer that says “we built this based on the content from the open web, so in its unfiltered form it will say some crazy stuff.”

I'll say again what I will doubtless be saying a million times in the coming years: Algorithmic feeds have pushed content creators to conform to the acceptable aesthetic and cultural average; A.I. generation will just automatically produce that average from the start

@TaylorLorenz Almost everything that happened in the social media era had already happened before in the blogging era! (Including silly lists of "power" people)