Coming AI-driven economy will sell your decisions before you take
The near future could see AI assistants that forecast and influence our decision-making at an early stage, and sell these developing “intentions” in real-time to companies that can meet the need –
Miguel Afonso Caetano (@remixtures@tldr.nettime.org)
"In exchange for mere crumbs of their fortune, this Big Tech fraternity receives three extraordinary gifts: massive public contracts; the removal of regulatory safeguards against the dangers of their methods and products – autonomous vehicles, AI-controlled "bots" and drones, massive increases in electricity consumption; and finally, huge bargaining power, legitimized by the state, in their dealings with workers, suppliers, competitors, and the rest of us." https://www.lemonde.fr/en/opinion/article/2025/01/04/yanis-varoufakis-former-greek-finance-minister-big-tech-giants-have-moved-into-trump-s-oval-office_6736701_23.html #USA #Trump #BigTech #Oligopolies
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AI’s emissions are about to skyrocket even further
Data center emissions have tripled since 2018. As more complex AI models like OpenAI’s Sora see broad release, those figures will likely go through the roof.
Principle #4 of Data Feminism is to Rethink Binaries and Hierarchies. Data feminism requires us to challenge the gender binary, along with other systems of counting and classification that perpetuate oppression.
In Defense of Algorithmic Bias: The Palestinian Struggle and the Deception of “Neutral” Tech
I found myself staring at a computer screen, my face blurred and tracked by a green rectangle that followed me everywhere I moved. Behind the screen, a pre-recorded video showed similar rectangles
The Manifesto for Teaching and Learning in a Time of Generative AI: A Critical Collective Stance to Better Navigate the Future | Open Praxis
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Synthetic Media in Networked Image Cultures
Lecture by Roland Meyer
Tue May 14, 2024, 7pm, Room E.O2.29, Neubau, AdBK München
While the initial hype surrounding AI image synthesis models such as Dall-E, Midjourney, or Stable Diffusion is fading, their massive impact on networked image cultu
Undead Digital Labor and the General Intellect – A Conversation on AI between Tiziana Terranova and Daniël de Zeeuw
Daniël de Zeeuw: A combination of genuine concerns and moral panics over AI (often fueled by the tech moguls themselves) has reached a new high in recent years, particularly with the introduction of
Learning from Librarians, Libraries and Library Science Inside the Seattle Public Library, photo copyright Emily M. Bender 2019 By Emily Yesterday I posted...
the paper really should be called "People who don't give a shit one way or another react ambivalently to output of billion-dollar machine designed by hucksters to trick people into thinking its outputs are plausible exemplars of textual artifacts in a specified genre" (the study participants were crowd-sourced online and paid less than a living wage)
Kuntaviestinnän kysely paljastaa: Useat kaupungit ja kunnat hyödyntävät jo tekoälyä viestinnässään - ohjeistuksia odotetaan koko Eurooppaan | Suomen Kuntaliitto / Finlands Kommunförbund
Suuri osa Suomen kaupungeista ja kunnista käyttää tai suunnittelee pian käyttävänsä viestinnässään tekoälypohjaisia työkaluja. Kuntaliiton kyselyyn vastanneista 182 kunnasta 35 prosenttia käyttää ja 22 prosenttia suunnittelee ryhtyvänsä käyttämään tekoälyä kunnan viestinnässä. Tieto selviää Kuntaliiton toteuttamasta kuntaviestintäkyselystä, joka toteutetaan kahden vuoden välein.
Moderna x OpenAI = Best Case, a Nothingburger By Emily I don't do predictions, but I do spend a good bit of time these days pondering how things might play...