when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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#TalkAboutHumanities
We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together.
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We are super excited for the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 when @alexhanna.bsky.social and I get to talk with Carmen Maria Machado about the use of LLMs in writing, from language arts classes to the publishing industry.
Livestream info:
Monday, April 13, noon PT,
twitch.tv/dair_institute
"The use of ChatGPT for scientific purposes... clashes with core scientific integrity principles such as honesty, scrupulousness, transparency, responsibility, and independence.
Therefore, I need to decline this invitation to review."
"It is not about whether AI will help itself to your job. It is about whether the people who make AI are helping themselves to your country."
😱 Don’t we all have such beautiful memories of ratifying our marriages by honeymoon sunsets?
The hype literacy toolkit for journalists What is hype? Hype is characterized by the fascination with the future: Exaggerated and unrealistic promises of value development are coupled with a strident optimism that captures the attention of investors, technologists, politicians, journalists, and the general public. What hype does: Hype often feels like a natural force surrounding technological development, but it is not. Hype is made. Powerful actors generate promises to attract resources, prestige, shape agendas, and position themselves as stewards of technological futures, foreclosing alternatives and silencing dissenting voices. Why do journalists need hype literacy? Journalists play a central role in deciding which stories gain traction, whose voices appear authoritative, and which visions of the future become publicly plausible. Hype literacy is about strengthening democratic accountability. It helps societies understand how the future is negotiated and whose interests dominate that negotiation.
How to better cover hype 1. Diversify sources- Does my source list overrepresent people who stand to gain from the technology's success? Who is absent? 2. Go beyond first-person experiences - Does my personal experience reflect the average user's? 3. Ask who benefits - Who has an interest in staging a technology in a certain way? Who can gain money, prestige, (geo-)political advantage, visibility, and the power to set or advance certain techno-political agendas? 4. Beware the "critics" vs. "experts" narrative - Who is labelled an expert and in what field? Is the expertise of critical voices recognized? 5. Highlight uncertainties - Who is making the prediction, and what is their stake in its acceptance? What data supports the claim and is it independent, peer-reviewed, or anecdotal? 6. Develop a historical awareness- Have similar claims been made about earlier technologies? What actually happened?
I worked on a thing! (With @imaginaries.bsky.social and Jascha Bareis from the @hypestudies.bsky.social group.) akademie.dw.de/hype-literacy/
This is disappointingly-credulous xrisk palace intrigue, utterly failing to contextualize the xrisk/AGI narratives.
The public would be better served reading @timnitgebru.blacksky.app and @xriskology.bsky.social on TESCREAL or watching Ghost in the Machine notaidoc.com @ghostdoc2026.bsky.social
Ooh thanks for the warning.
North side of Dublin, my family might say something closer to two syllables.
Pacific north west-on super mare
Yup. 404 really disappoint me with this. If I didn’t know better I would have thought it was the lazy Guardian crap I see all the time.
This headline is bullshit. Just more of the ‘I wrote ‘I am alive’ and put it in the copier and the result has shocking implications’
From the article:
“[The bot owner] told me that Tom [the bot] wrote these blog posts, but that he “might have suggested” Tom write about these specific topics.”
Generally love 404, but it would be really helpful if we didn’t use the terminology ‘wrote’ and ‘angrily blogged ‘ etc. Synthetic text was extruded. There was no ‘writing’. It’s hard not to anthropomorphise but it’s so worth the effort.
AI newsletters sound more and more like when the STEM kid eats an edible.
Political superintelligence would be so amaaaaazing. If it was technically possible and we could devote previously unavailable political coordination to reorganise all of society...
Yet more incredibly bad tech reporting from the Guardian. How many times? There is no ignoring. There is no scheming. There is no agency. This is synthetic text. For responsible tech journalism, subscribe to @404media.co
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
*Screams into the void.*
Do it Cara!! 💪
To the two insecure teen boys on the train this evening: I feel for you. Please don’t do ‘pinning’, steroids, ozempic or any of the other things you were talking about. Just be kids while you still can and ignore the online grifters. Ride your bikes fast, listen to music loud, laugh hard. Live.
I cannot recommend this enough! Was so excited to watch on Kinema this weekend and it didn’t disappoint. notaidoc.com
Is that a raincoat? 🔪
Can’t read the whole piece but *screams into my pillow*
The things I disagree with are
a) I think the serious critics of AI actually do prepare us for this moment
b) I think talking about AI as "charismatic" ironically frames the displacement of responsibility as a kind of accidental outcome, rather than an intended effect
Excellent épisode de @404media.co avec @emilymbender.bsky.social et @alexhanna.bsky.social. On y explique entre autres, leur concept de ridicule comme praxis pour résister à « l’IA »
Also AI is not challenging people’s humanity. These bros are. Where’s the damn accountability?!
39.51 for a highlight, among many others, where Mehrotra denies my humanity, and yours, and everyone else’s in the world. This is an excellent and illuminating interview.
This got me out of bed to listen to on my morning walk!
🤖 Interesting study about relying on increased automation. Beyond cognitive offloading, *cognitive surrender* involves thinking system output is basically your own thought…analytical skills degrading all the while.
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