AI

How news organizations are using AI in good and bad ways, and what lessons we can draw from those examples.

A new study claims that the growing water demand from AI and data centers could threaten China's water supply.

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

As fascinating and alarming as generative AI may be, it doesn't have much practical use yet.

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...

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

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)

If left unchallenged, political deep fake videos could have profound impacts on Australian elections.

AI-driven deepfakes & disinformation threaten the 2024 US election, raising fears of voter manipulation, surveillance, & election integrity

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.

A.I. company Art Recognition has identified as many as 40 artworks listed on eBay as fake, including pieces supposedly by Renoir and Monet.

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...

ELEVENLABS IS BUILDING AN ARMY OF VOICE CLONES A tiny start-up has made some of the most convincing AI voices. Are its creators ready for th...

artificial and natural intelligence, including politics, policy, ethics and security

“Inanimate Species” by Joana Moll on June 13, 2024 at Hidden Layers - AI & Design Conference at Köln International School of Design, TH Köln In…

Miranda Gabbott asks, by choosing AI industry-driven growth today, will urban planners in Spain jeopardize their water tomorrow?

We fear and yearn for “the singularity.” But it will probably never come.

Code analysis firm sees no major benefits from AI dev tool when measuring key programming metrics, though others report incremental gains from coding copilots with emphasis on code review.

By now, everyone knows that the normally smooth functioning world of information and communication is not to be trusted or taken for granted. Designers and researchers devise methods, protocols, check

Huge data centres built for generative AI will generate millions of tonnes of electronic waste by 2030, the equivalent of discarding billions of smartphones each year, a study suggests.

Social media these days features a whole lot of weird race and IQ graphs to support racist conspiracy theories. This stuff has long been funded and promoted by rich racists. Angela Saini’s excellen…

The future of photography is no longer defined by the medium itself, but by AI. AI image generators have internalised the photographic visual language and can generate it synthetically as “promptography”. What does this mean for the relationship between photography and promptography? Which skills do I need as a photographer, which as a promptographer? Where

The privacy mess is troubling because the chatbots actively encourage you to share details that are far more personal than in a typical app.

Automation is supposed to make employees more productive. But does that fundamentally misunderstand how people work?

The long read: Datacentres are part of Ireland’s vision of itself as a tech hub. There are now more than 80, using vast amounts of electricity. Have we entrusted our memories to a system that might destroy them?

A TIME investigation reveals the difficult conditions faced by the workers who made ChatGPT possible

With AI entering the domain of workplaces and operating systems at record speeds, scientists are asking whether it's even possible to power it all.

It's all driven by who gets what