Without exception, “free speech absolutists” just want to say a specific brand of horrid shit themselves without social blowback. It never applies to free speech as a legal concept, and certainly never applies to speech they disagree with.
I for one respect his ability to stick his neck out for his beliefs.
Would it blow your mind if I told you all the 2K sports games were released by 2K? 😁
Like a lot of people have already said, people are complicated and contradictory; they are rarely one thing.
So you can judge him for, and learn from, the way he has treated other people, while also being grateful for the love, respect, and good parenting he has shown you.
Another aspect is that people often make mistakes and grow from those experiences. It might help you resolve some of the dissonance to talk to him about those things. Many people have experienced that having kids radically changes their priorities. Some people are fiercely loyal to a few people, but couldn’t care less about everyone else.
I will cop to not having fully read the original source, but going off the excerpts posted, my takeaway was that participants were told they were getting AI generated recommendations–the difference was whether it was explicitly stated that they were based off their previous consumption/preferences or if they were not explicitly told this fact.
IMO generating recommendations for new content to explore is actually one of the better use cases for a LLM, since reading and distilling tons of organic online conversations from people who have expressed similar interests to me is exactly how I would ideally go about it.
But yeah, back to the main point…maybe there is more to it, but this seems like a relatively neutral point that can be spun in either direction depending on which echo chamber you’re in. For example, imagine r/conservative being all “those silly liberals hate AI so much that they would rather get random recommendations than ones they were told come from AI”
Maybe I’m reading too much or too little into this, but I think I would be more likely to entertain AI-generated recommendations that I was told consider my past media consumption or interests, since the alternative seems to be considering AI-generated recommendations that do not consider my past behavior.
I’d assume the latter would just be a bunch of algorithmic slop based on what is trending in general, and therefore of zero value to me.
There’s maybe a subtle detail in that “recommendations based on past behavior” could mean “more of the same”, which is not necessarily helpful. But my default assumption would be that it includes “people with similar habits to you also like”, and/or “things that combine your known preferences”. Even then, if typical streaming services recommendations are any reference, I’d take “more of the same” over “trending” 9 times out of 10.
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That’s why I specifically called out the phrase “free speech absolutist”.
In my experience the vast majority of people who truly do advocate for freedom of speech are willing/able to understand nuances such as the fact that your freedom of speech does not grant you immunity from the social consequences of unpopular speech. I.e., other people exercising their freedom to disagree or opt not to use their private platform to host your speech. The “absolutists” will unironically call that censorship, rather than recognize other people are not compelled to engage with their speech.