Current Events: 2024 – The Progressive CIO

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Ian Betteridge does a fabulous job illustrating what I feel is the single biggest risk to Generative AI: self-reinforcing junk.

Part of me enjoys watching the Internet as we know it burn itself down, because, even prior to ChatGPT, it was full of recycled and derivative content. The software-driven world often has a way of moving way faster than it has a right to, and checks and balances — in whatever form they take — are a blessing.

What should the next generation of the World Wide Web look like, though? If it were to look a little more like the original Yahoo!, would that be a bad thing?

We’ve all-too-proudly gone from Web 1.0 to Web 2.0 to Web 3.0 (and even Web3, sigh), but what would be wrong with Web 1.9 or even Web 2.1?

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Between DMA in the EU and this week’s DOJ lawsuits in the U.S., who can help wondering that the focus of both of these Apple-targeted initiatives is solely to address what bothers governments the most: Apple’s position as the only company who offers compelling security to average human beings?

A feature ≠ a monopoly.

The most cogent retort to all of this government nonsense is Steve Sinofsky’s recent (and long) piece, which is an essential read for anybody who wants to become informed of the issues the world is facing with these recent episodes of global government overreach:

Building Under Regulation

March 23 followup:

United States v. Apple (Complaint)