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==> Tovia Smith und NPR berichten: “More States Opting To ‘Robo-Grade’ Student Essays By Computer”. (Übersetzung: “Mehr Bundesstaaten benoten Aufsätze von Studenten durch Computer”).
Als ich mich damals in Cambridge beworben habe, um dort zu studieren, hat man sich tatsächlich die Zeit genommen, Interviews mit mir zu machen. – Das war das Cambridge in England, nicht jenes nahe Boston, und ich hatte mich für zwei Studiengänge interessiert, den M.Phil. in Computer Speech, Text, and Internet Technology und den Bachelor in Mathematik als “mature student” am St. Edmunds College. Durchgeführt wurden beide Interviews durch Professoren, also wirklich durch die Inhaber der relevanten Lehrstühle, nicht durch Hilfsdozenten. In den U.S.A. war es damals schon üblich, standardisierte Tests durch schlecht bezahlte Hilfskräfte auswerten zu lassen; im Prinzip durch “Mechanical Turk”. Und jetzt nehmen sie sich nicht einmal mehr die Zeit, überhaupt noch einen Menschen mit der Aufgabe zu betrauen? Ich bin sprachlos.
Ich hoffe, Cambridge bleibt in diesem Punkt eine Hochburg der Vernunft und Menschlichkeit. Schließlich wird hier über die berufliche Zukunft junger Leute entschieden, und solche Entscheidungen sollten wirklich nicht Algorithmen überlassen werden.
#politics #business #computers | Jul-21 2018
==> Today the European Parliament rejected the link tax proposal.
#politics | Jul-05 2018
==> Some of my U.S. friends are asking me to explain this “link tax” thing.
This is basically the doing of the press publishers (think Axel Springer) of Europe. They put a lot of headlines into the journalistic ether, which people discover through Google. When a user fails to click on a given headline, Google still has monetization through advertising on the SERP, while the press publisher doesn’t have any monetization at all. This made the press publishers cry, “no fair!” and refer the matter to the teacher, now considering a copyright change. The new copyright would have Google share this revenue with (pay a “link tax” to) press publishers.
We’ve seen this play out at the national level before. When Spain introduced something like this, Google retaliated by taking Spanish press publishers’ content out of the index and not paying a penny. Advertising clients of those press publishers were less than pleased. A deal was quickly reached wherein press publishers agreed with Google that Google didn’t have to pay a penny. The perverse outcome was that the law still applies to content aggregators who aren’t Google, which is massively anti-competitive. Germany later did something similar, and it never amounted to anything but dead law.
#politics | Jul-03 2018
==> The link tax proposal is going through the media again. Mike Masnick of Techdirt thinks it’s even worse than expected and must be stopped.
I very much agree, and I think it’s telling, regarding the quality of journalism nowadays, that the battlefield has moved on to fighting over who gets to monetize headlines pointing to content that’s too shitty for people to click through to.
For links people actually click on, the current situation is that it’ll take users to the publishers’ websites, where the publisher monetizes it through advertising. Nothing wrong with that.
But, following the press publishers’ argument, what’s apparently needed to adequately pay for all that quality journalism they’re doing is remuneration for headlines that nobody clicks on. Is anyone else having trouble following this argument, or am I the only one?
#politics | Jul-03 2018
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