# Reading Responses (Set 2)
- Checklist for a [good reading response](https://reagle.org/joseph/zwiki/Teaching/Best_Practices/Learning/Writing_Responses.html) of 250-350 words
- [ ] Begin with a punchy start.
- [ ] Mention specific ideas, details, and examples from the text and earlier classes.
- [ ] Offer something novel that you can offer towards class participation.
- [ ] Check for writing for clarity, concision, cohesion, and coherence.
- [ ] Send to professor with “hackmd” in the subject, with URL of this page and markdown of today’s response.
## Reading responses 5 out of 5
### Nov 04 Tue - Finding someone & living alone
Our grandparents probably found each other through mutual friends and family, its odd to think about how many people now days found their significant other swiping on their phone. However, people have slowly started to lose hope in online dating apps; Tinder which is the most popular dating app has reported a 5% drop in its users in 2021.Research shows that 90% of gen z feels frustrated with dating apps in general and some people revert back to the older techniques. Most people report that if there are matches online most of them don't lead to meaningful conversations others have reported that due to an overwhelming amount of likes they just end up ghosting everyone and feel bad about it
As we discussed in the previous classes, sometimes people act different online compared to how they act in real life. These people use online dating as an opportunity to pretend to be someone they're not. Research shows that people are two inches shorter in real life than what they say they are online. People also tend to lie about how much money they make since income plays a role in dating especially for men. While online dating gives people a chance to connect with people they would probably not meet organically, it can also feel isolating

### Nov 18 Tue- Artificial intelligence
When we put in a prompt into ChatGPT it doesn't just register the whole thing as one it splits every sentence to n tokens as inputs and produces a token out. In any OpenAI GPT shorter words usually are taken as a single token however, longer words like "anthropomorphizing" is divided into three different tokens. It seems like it would be easier to take every word as a single token but if they did it that way it would be harder for AI to recognize domain- specific terminology and it would be more difficult to add new words that are just invented.
Many people use AI for research or creativity but some people use it for different reasons. Stability AI released Version 2 of their image generating AI which makes harder for users to generate NSFW (pornographic content), this new model also makes it harder for users to copy a specific artists style. Many of the users acknowledged the needed improvement since version one enabled its users to generate sexual images of people including children which falls in the label of non- consensual generation. However, it has raised a debate about if Open AI should give their users the freedom to generate anything or if they should take more control and responsibility and filter out harmful content.

### Nov 21 Fri- Algorithmic bias
Can an AI have a specific political view. The article "ChatGPT goes woke" by National Review argues that some AI platforms like ChatGPT may not be objective but may be embedded from left- leaning "woke" ideologies from their creators. This idea is backed up by examples where ChatGPT refused to generate certain images like Donald Trump winning the debate or writing the cons of drag- queen story telling hour
On the other hand, there are some people who think google results are racist. When you type "hands" into the search bar almost all the results that come up are white. And when its typed out "black hands" its so much more different than how the white hands are shown, The hands of black people are shown working on the earth while white hands are shown just extended out almost as offering help. Burai said that she didnt know what could be done about these because "The people in society are creating Google, in a way"

### Dec 2 Tue- Digital language and generations
Its been an ongoing debate that if people can form friendships on the internet. For a long time the answer has been no, people thought cyberspace wasn't real and therefore friendships formed there couldn't be real too. However, today a huge part of our social lives take place online. The main reason people views on the internet differ so dramatically is that every age group experienced a different part of the internet. The founders and the first participants are the "Old Internet people", this group needed tech skills just to take a part in the online space and they created many of the slang by talking to strangers instead of people they already knew. Full internet people used it to talk to people they know in real life. A group of people who joined internet for work uses instead of personal ones are called semi internet people. The late arrivals, the people who avoided internet for a long time are called "pre internet people" this group eventually joined because they had to; many of the older generation of people often use only one app (facebook etc). Post internet group were the people who got born into this age of the internet and social media and never knew a world where wifi didn't exist

Dec 5 Fri- Pushback
In today's world technology takes a part in nearly every interaction we have. Stacy L. Morrison and Ricardo Gomez introduce the idea of "pushback" as a term to describe how much people resist the pressure of always being online.The article argues that we live in a "everytime" regime (the normalization of constantly being online and the idea that people are always reachable and always online.) that affects our work, social life and personal time by blurring the lines out of these very different environments because we can get notifications at anytime creating a false sense of "being more then one place at a time". Emotional dissatisfaction, fear of overuse, concerns about privacy and the need to reclaim your time might also cause "pushback" in users. The article explains how pushback can come in several forms, they note that some users set boundaries for themselves while others choose to withdraw completely.These boundaries come in the for of "behavior adaptation" which is setting a screen limit, putting your phone away during certain times etc. and "tech control" which contains choosing devices that restrict access.