extraordinary
Striving for the Extraordinary
With Carsten Lillelund Pedersen
future of social media
The Gamification of Human Relationships
How Facebook, Instagram, and other social media platforms gamify human relationships to the tune of great profits. The results are not pretty.
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How Will AI Change Law & the Legal Industry? (Level 3)
The deeper, philosophical question of how AI will change society.
Coopting Disruption - How Five Companies Dominate the Web
A new paper titled "Coopting Disruption" exposes the tricks and tactics used by BigTech to stay ahead of startups and potential competitors.
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Understand the Essentials of the Digital Markets Act & the Digital Services Acts
Both acts, especially the Digital Services Act, will be burdensome for the tech giants to comply with. The EU is imposing a lot of paper pushing and compliance work but it's arguably for the better.
OpenAI
The Social Costs of Meta’s AI Playbook
Also, OpenAI's Sora, Apple Vision Pro, and conversation with Nick Potkalitsky about AI's impact on education.
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Potential Landmark Case on Social Media's Destruction of Youth Mental Health
The multi-state class action against Meta, social media's harmful effects on the youth, manipulative product features, and Meta's denial of key findings in internal research.
OpenAI
The NYT Lawsuit Against Microsoft and OpenAI Could Signal GenAI’s Napster Moment
Introduction While reading about the myriad of lawsuits that are hitting OpenAI and Microsoft, I am more and more inclined to think that ChatGPT could face a “Napster moment”. Napster, the peer-to-peer streaming platform that was big from 1999-2001, became defined, not by its proliferation of free
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