@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 3:19

Swell’s role in the Mark vs Jack debate

Having an opinion on this topic is meaningless as it will not make a difference, right? But I want to take this chance right now to give a slightly more meaningful answer. I mean, that was a cop out. And here's the real reason I feel the moment you take a side. It is game over the moment you take a side on this debate because you're succumbed to the trap set by modern day social media, existing social platforms

#SwellsAboutSwell Swell has a role to play in the debate. It is not what you think. #listen #heal #georgefloyd #twitter #facebook

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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 5:00
I do fall in one side of the camp, but before go ahead and do a lot my opinion, the pitfall that all social media these days fall into is the Echo Chambers, right? And that's okay in some way. But what's worse is the hijacking of these Echo Chambers. There are bad actors in this world. I know you said like, yes, we are all good. We Ali want the same thing
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 3:23
Continuing my previous message. Yes, I don't use any of the Facebook social networking services, and the reason I don't do it is because of the activity co Chambers and how I've noticed Facebook has slowly but surely somewhat brainwashed people. And it is my belief that Mark Zuckerberg prioritizes profits and traffic through his social media over fixing this issue. Why does this issue need to be fixed? Because I believe there are enough bad actors who have mastered the art of pushing forward lies as the truth
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 1:28

A moment in the trajectory of Swell. #compass

And I think it's kind of an MBA moment for all of us to study best practices around. When do we proclaim things? And when don't we? And when do we look at the market to teach us? And when don't we? And it's a fluid process and of the people for the people and time will tell. So let's add some more cliches to this
@sudha
Sudha Varadarajan
@sudha · 3:00

If the community has empathy they should own the moderation as well!

And we have to acknowledge that this is here to stay right. We agree that media cannot be controlled by just a few print companies. Media has to become Democratic and social media tries to just do exactly that democratizes media. However, we haven't democratized the curation and the moderation of that media. We seem to want to control whether it's Facebook, whether it's Twitter and arbitrate the moderation of that media
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@Swell
Swell Team
@Swell · 0:15

Welcome to Swell!

@zoya
Zoya Ali
@zoya · 0:51
Also, Obama mentions a line in the interview that everyone is entitled to his or her opinion but not to his her own facts. And hopefully through this wealth platform, we would hear the opinion opinions and know that down the line community moderation is taking care of the facts
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@arish
Arish Ali
@arish · 5:00

#AnimalSpirits #clickbaits #incentives

And as long as that incentive is there, there is going to be more and more kind of technology and effort and bad actors and everybody else comes into play to get you to click on things and which tend to be more sensational. Stick tend to be more partisan, tend to be more inflammatory because that's what gets more than anything else. Right. So that whole ecosystem, that whole trillion dollar economy is built around monetizing your attention span
@Phil
phil spade
@Phil · 2:25
Irish. Thank you for this. I found myself nodding a lot into what you were saying, and I think one of the biggest frustrations for me over the past ten years is that we've gone from the information age to the disinformation age in a blink of an eye. And that's extremely frustrating to me. And I look at the platforms that we have currently, and I'm talking mainly Facebook and Twitter, and there's no accountability for what is said
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:29
Well, we can have a stampede and people get hurt or somebody can get trampled to death. Now, as a social media network, just think about it. Do we want to be the medium that allows the person to yell fire when there was no fire and caused this mayhem? Right. Could we have just said like, hey, we just checked. There's no fire. That's what I was looking at
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@DBPardes
Deborah Pardes
@DBPardes · 3:18

Convening on a regular basis around this issue #accountability #ethics #AI

And I'm in the belly of the beast because I care about swell deeply as one of its core employees. And in the end of the day, it's how do we hit the pillow at night and how do we fall asleep? And what are we thinking we're doing in the world? And there would be pros that outweigh the cons. Shammi, I was listening to you about the idea of innovating AI around this, and behind every machine learning protocol there is in every AI innovation
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@shammi
Shammi Mohamed
@shammi · 4:33

Deeper look into potential AI protocols

And that was what my suggestion of using AI is, because once you do that, then once we can confirm that the AI can work without any bias, that's a win situation, it's
@David
David Gilmour
@David · 2:26
What if you invert the paradigm and think of the purpose of AI to allow each individual user to develop their own filter along two dimensions? One is how much they agree with something and the other is how much it's widely supported by others they may or may not agree with. Imagine a little dot in a box when the dot moves to the up and to the right
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