I understand that the blacklist is probably just an example of things to hide, but it's interesting to note that if the filter was effective, it would block literally any and all content, including information criticizing and fighting against the nefarious media manipulation highlighted in this repo, but also the repo itself.<p>(note: this comment has a strong political bias, may reduce your lifespan, and the note you're reading might be considered "meme" content)<p>edit: Okay maybe it's not that interesting and that's the exact point the project was trying to make by showing censorship of Assange's tweets and I feel stupid.
The name "anti-ChatGPT" is rather weird, no? The project is a use of ChatGPT to block content that is <i>not</i> necessarily AI related or AI generated, and that the developer claims (probably sarcastically) not to like.<p>> With Anti-ChatGPT, you as an individual have the power to fight the AIs trying to manipulate you.<p>But it appears to do nothing of the sort. The example given immediately below this is a Twitter comment by a EU official being blocked by the script, as well as several other posts engaging with it. I don't have any reason to think these people are AIs or are using AIs.<p>So how is this anti-ChatGPT?
lol @ filtering "politically biased content". If you apply this filter you're not neutralizing biases, just adding a bias towards the status quo. The status quo being by definition not progressive, that unfortunately means you've given yourself a conservative bias.<p>You've also offloaded the decision about what is political material to an AI - which has a biased view of what is politically biased based on its training data.
I don't think hiding manipulative content is the right path here. Instead of burying your head in the sand, it would be better to make people aware of the manipulation and expose the techniques and messages they use to that end. What do they want you to believe, and why? That puts you in a much more powerful position.
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_medium_is_the_message</a><p>There is very little point in trying to 'fix' content streams by filtering, censoring, or 'making them safe'. The content is just bait, the consequences you are attempting to avoid by filtering or improving the stream of content are inevitable and unavoidable so long as you sell your attention to that content provider at all.<p>The mechanisms that are used to massage you into consuming more and more of that media stream are the things you should be concerned about, not what the specific message encoded into any specific piece.<p>Example: You scroll tiktok for an hour. You might see pro hamas videos, anti hamas videos. You might just see videos of puppies. Whatever the the algorithm shows you, the effect of the specific videos it shows you is so small as to be irrelevant compared to the way the application causes rewards to be triggered in your brain and encourages you to continue to use the app. Worrying about the details of specific videos it shows you is like worrying about whether your Oxycontin chewables are cherry or blue raspberry.<p>I love that this is demonstrated by the filter completely redacting literally every tweet in the example.
A start of a “Coasean filter” as discussed back in 2007.<p>> “…technological device he calls a “Coasean filter,” that would compare all incoming marketing messages with the particular consumer’s current utility as determined from an analysis of the consumer’s current location, her response to prior messages, her own communications, etc.”<p><a href="https://goldhaber.org/attention-marketing-a-coasean-filter-and-utility/" rel="nofollow noreferrer">https://goldhaber.org/attention-marketing-a-coasean-filter-a...</a>
If I turned this thing on, it would be obliged to hide its own existence from me, on the grounds that it's:<p>- potentially trying to spread misinformation<p>- sounds like clickbait<p>- contains politically biased content
For a while email was perfect. Then spam came and it was unusable. Then spam filters came, and email is outstanding again (the end).<p>For a while the web was great, then everything was an ad. Will the ability for consumers to adblock be the technology free us from capitalist web enhsit?