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This paper problematises the notion of ‘machine learning’ (ML) challenging its applicability to contemporary algorithms. By drawing on theoretical insights from

Resisting AI - An Anti-fascist Approach to Artificial Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence (AI) is everywhere, yet it causes damage to society in ways that can’t be fixed. Calling for the restructuring of AI, Dan McQuillan sets out an anti-fascist approach that replaces exclusions with caring and outlines new mechanisms that support collective freedom.

AI and digitalisation has become a topic of everyday discussion and debate, but what are its implications for activists fighting for social and environmental justice? This six week course will explore what digital capitalism is, how and by whom is being shaped, its implications for our economy, society and environment, and the possibilities for transformation. If you want to penetrate behind the jargon and hype to properly understand the digital economy, then this course is for you!

Content moderation systems are being abandoned and defunded, leaving many countries looking for alternatives.

Sam Altman is promoting his new image generator by appropriating the work of one of the greatest living animators—who is "disgusted" by AI.

A captured screenshot showcasing the iocaine demonstration site in operation. The primary objective of iocaine is to generate a stable, infinite maze of randomized garbage. Each page is randomly generated but adheres to a consistent structure: an optional 'back' link (pointing to ../), followed by a series of Markov chain-generated paragraphs of varying lengths, and an unordered list of links at the bottom. Each link is relative to the current page and features a randomized URI along with accompanying randomized text.

Soundtrack: Mack Glocky - Chasing Cars Last week, I spent a great deal of time and words framing the generative AI industry as a cynical con where OpenAI's Sam Altman and Anthropic's Dario Amodei have used a compliant media and braindead investors to frame unprofitable, unsustainable, environmentally-damaging and mediocre cloud

I’m working on a project and as part of it I came across this picture.

Are we going to run out of electricity to power our data-driven future?

Ben Williamson Turnitin can now analyse students’ individual writing styles to tackle ‘contract cheating’. Image by Xavi The acquisition of plagiarism detection company Turnitin f…

The development and training of AI systems depend on hundreds of millions of data workers. Many of them are situated or displaced from the global majority.

Why it does not make sense to move faster when heading the wrong way.

We can now create compelling experiences of talking with our dead. Is this ghoulish, therapeutic or something else again?

In this Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield shares some of his thoughts ahead of the forthcoming

Recordings of empty studios represent impact on musicians of UK’s plans to let AI train on their work without permission

The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control, says Johnny Ryan, director of Enforce, a unit of the Irish Council for Civil Liberties

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A lot has happened in the world of Large Language Models over the course of 2024. Here’s a review of things we figured out about the field in the past …

2/2 ... for content creation, media, & news. They all think they're buying tax evasion & government subsidies. They all believe AI will be an effective wage suppression scheme and it'll thwart unions & rising wage demands. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/omnipresent-ai-cameras-will-ensure-good-behavior-says-larry-ellison/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2022/05/20/larry-ellison-oracle-trump-election-challenges/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-11-06/saudis-plan-100-billion-ai-powerhouse-to-rival-uae-s-tech-hub https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/05/14/middle-east-ai-tech-companies-saudi-arabia-uae/ https://www.businessinsider.com/openai-investors-latest-funding-round-2024-10 https://www.nytimes.com/2024/09/25/us/politics/kushner-private-equity-saudi-arabia.html https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-04-06/google-thiel-stand-out-in-saudi-prince-s-silicon-valley-tour https://www.forbes.com/sites/kellyphillipserb/2024/09/28/tax-breaks-the-artificial-intelligence-is-changing-the-game-edition/ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-28/hk-unveils-ai-policy-for-finance-floats-tax-breaks-for-crypto https://www.yalejreg.com/bulletin/belaboring-the-algorithm-artificial-intelligence-and-labor-unions/ https://www.thestar.com/business/drivers-worry-uber-s-new-pricing-algorithm-will-hike-fares-for-riders-while-reducing-their/article_43001daa-8592-11ef-b757-3fab1576058b.html

The deadliest poison known to AI.

Here are more messages to push back on

This is a great piece by Jamelle Bouie, which lays out in plain language what Musk and Trump are doing to the federal government, why it matters, and what can be done about it. To describe the current situation in the executive branch as merely a constit

We may have found the killer app for AI. Well, actually, British telecom provider O2 has. As The Guardian reports, they have an AI chatbot that acts like a 78-year-old grandmother and receives phon…

A.I. is continuing to impact the art world is ways both expected and surprising, here is our guide to the biggest breakthroughs of 2024.

We built an Ethical Hardware Kit with a PCB microcontroller made of wild clay retrieved from the forest in Austria and fired on a bonfire...

There’s a strong link between proximity to AI data centers and higher levels of distorted power in residential areas

Attached: 1 image #LLMs are a fucking scourge. Perceiving their training infrastructure as anything but a horrific all-consuming parasite destroying the internet (and wasting real-life resources at a grand scale) is delusional. #ChatGPT isn't a fun toy or a useful tool, it's a _someone else's_ utility built with complete disregard for human creativity and craft, mixed with malicious intent masquerading as "progress", and should be treated as such. https://pod.geraspora.de/posts/17342163

You could be forgiven for thinking there’s no water in the Atacama Desert. In fact, the driest desert on Earth has underground springs that feed the Chaxa, Cejar and Tebenquiche lagoons, as well as other bodies of water, providing oases for various animals such as flamingos and extremophiles. It’s said that the ancestors of the […]