AI Produced Images and Reality
Be skeptical. Learn how to identify AI-generated images, and look for inconsistencies. And, always identify who benefits from your attention on these posts.
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Shared Links (weekly) Jan. 22 2023
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Ways to Help Your Employees Be More Successful in the Workplace
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SEC Sues Law Firm for Refusing to Disclose List of Clients Affected by Cyberattack
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UT Austin’s Ban Of TikTok Is A Dumb Performance That Fixes Nothing
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Study reveals the key reason why fake news spreads on social media– Users like the attention, and the algorithm rewards them with it.
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Job searching and interviewing is a nightmare — and only getting worse
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7 Reminders For When Managing Your Team Is Hard While Also Managing Depression And Anxiety
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When you want to succeed as a remote worker: 5 tips to shine from your home office
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Social Media Has Everyone Using Fear and Outrage to Get Attention, even the NY Times
I’m making an example of the Times because they like to consider themselves America’s “Paper of Record”, and even they are now using fear and outrage to gain attention, no better than a Twitter or Facebook troll, but it’s happening everywhere. It’s also no surprise that it’s becoming popular among all media outlets because it works. If we’ve learned anything from fake news sites, biased cable channels, YouTube “experts” and social media influencers it’s that you will never lose an audience by making people afraid. You will get their attention, you will stimulate a fear-based response that causes their brain to kick into survival mode and become hyperalert to dangers, which you are happy to continue to feed them.
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Shared Links (weekly) March 7, 2021
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Study: Facebook Users Find Fake News More Engaging Than Facts
– The biggest problem has always been us, not the tech companies.
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Forensic Analysis of a Personal Laptop is Intrusive Discovery
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Worried About Malware? eDiscovery Could Be Your Biggest Malware Threat
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Looking Out for Manipulated ‘Deepfake’ Evidence in Family Law Cases
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7 places to find free college courses online, from Harvard to MIT
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How to Better Support a High Performing Workforce and Yourself During the Pandemic
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Linked: Section 230 and the complications of free speech on the internet
This is ultimately the nightmare scenario for the internet if Section 230 is just wiped out. “Example: if platforms are made responsible for everything millions of users post on their sites, they will have to read it all first. This would mark the end of the internet as a forum for real time communication. It…
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Linked: Game Of (Internet) Life: How Social Media Reacts To Questionable News
I thought this look at how the news about someone’s death spread, and then became questionable, is very interesting. The thing that jumped out at me, which I’ve talked about before, is the likelihood that by linking to an old article about the person’s life, suddenly the tweet became more legitimate in some eyes due…
