{"id":31667,"date":"2023-12-06T07:04:40","date_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:04:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=31667"},"modified":"2023-12-06T07:04:40","modified_gmt":"2023-12-06T13:04:40","slug":"the-ai-in-the-social-media-algorithms-doesnt-get-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/06\/the-ai-in-the-social-media-algorithms-doesnt-get-it\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI In The Social Media Algorithms Doesn&#8217;t Get It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Facebook and LinkedIn, and nobody liked it.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>One knock-on, downstream effect of the AI revolution is that Alberts, Alfreds, Alphonses, and Alistairs will probably stop using the nickname Al.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I presume this is because the algorithms don&#8217;t have a sense of humor or have flagged it as misinformation.<\/p>\n<p>It would never occur to me <em>it&#8217;s just not that funny.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The joke came to me when I read an article about climate change, and the name <em>Al Gore<\/em> was broken so Al was on one line and Gore on the next, and I just scanned Al as AI.  In the serif font of the WordPress text editor, it&#8217;s clearly different.  But in the sans serif fonts of the Internet, it looks the same.<\/p>\n<p>One more reason to study <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2023\/12\/05\/my-undocumented-purchase\/\" target=\"_new\" rel=\"noopener\">calligraphy<\/a>: If one can read it at all, one can tell the letters apart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I posted this on Facebook and LinkedIn, and nobody liked it. One knock-on, downstream effect of the AI revolution is that Alberts, Alfreds, Alphonses, and Alistairs will probably stop using the nickname Al. I presume this is because the algorithms don&#8217;t have a sense of humor or have flagged it as misinformation. It would never [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31667","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31667"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31667\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31670,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31667\/revisions\/31670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}