Had you still been locked up in LinkedIn Jail you know we’d all have visited, right, and we’d secure the rights to the latest Netflix doc seeking justice for someone wronged by the establishment. There’s gotta be a Johnny Cash song about this … oh, wait, “I’m stuck in LinkedIn Prison, and life keeps dragging on; Those posts on AI slop need writing, but my account has gone.”
To add a slight positive note: while LinkedIn/Microsoft can still legally do this in the US, some places have made regulatory efforts to tackle the madness that is Automated Decision Making. In the EU, the 2022 Digital Services Act gives consumers the right to an explanation for any automated decision as well as the right to human review. California (CPPA) is working on something similar, maybe coming in 2025. But that's not exactly digital habeas corpus and I can't see Congress passing any meaningful federal protections any time soon.
Oh and thanks for the shout-out! I feel validated in ways that could never be achieved on LinkedIn.
Thanks for this piece. There’s so much here that resonated with my recent anxieties, despite being in a very different line of work and only with the scraps of anything IT. Gen AI makes me feel *old* in the sense of just not quite getting it. I’m fairly open to change and interested in the world around me, yet I honestly thought until very recently that I could sit this one out. (I wrote about that here: https://open.substack.com/pub/annamaija487/p/ai-anxiety-incoming?r=33ghj7&utm_medium=ios)
Had you still been locked up in LinkedIn Jail you know we’d all have visited, right, and we’d secure the rights to the latest Netflix doc seeking justice for someone wronged by the establishment. There’s gotta be a Johnny Cash song about this … oh, wait, “I’m stuck in LinkedIn Prison, and life keeps dragging on; Those posts on AI slop need writing, but my account has gone.”
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To add a slight positive note: while LinkedIn/Microsoft can still legally do this in the US, some places have made regulatory efforts to tackle the madness that is Automated Decision Making. In the EU, the 2022 Digital Services Act gives consumers the right to an explanation for any automated decision as well as the right to human review. California (CPPA) is working on something similar, maybe coming in 2025. But that's not exactly digital habeas corpus and I can't see Congress passing any meaningful federal protections any time soon.
Oh and thanks for the shout-out! I feel validated in ways that could never be achieved on LinkedIn.
True, the EU does appear to be leading the way in AI regulation and at least thinking about the important issues. And you're most welcome.
LinkedIn is the morning coffee break at a multi-level marketing seminar on a Tuesday in a Travelodge just outside Basingstoke.
My posts on that platform are infrequent and totes normcore. I keep the spice for my plausibly deniable Substack.
Yeah, I'm probably doing it wrong.
If it’s any consolation, I think that LinkedIn is impossible to do right.
Thanks for this piece. There’s so much here that resonated with my recent anxieties, despite being in a very different line of work and only with the scraps of anything IT. Gen AI makes me feel *old* in the sense of just not quite getting it. I’m fairly open to change and interested in the world around me, yet I honestly thought until very recently that I could sit this one out. (I wrote about that here: https://open.substack.com/pub/annamaija487/p/ai-anxiety-incoming?r=33ghj7&utm_medium=ios)