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AI hype as misinformation; videogames and accessibility for PWD; Epistemological models for reimagining AI; Small language models and indigeneity; Academic collectives and co-ops; Community engagement and the GLAM sector
Hello! I’m in the UK from the 23rd of April to the 22nd of May. I'll be in Cambridge / Edinburgh / London / Birmingham and Bristol and I’d love to be connected to folk who are interested in/working on:
The enshittification guy not just embracing enshittification tech, but defending it through strawman arguments that seek to misdirect his readers is quite the move.
Yes, I’m talking about Cory Doctorow (very poorly) defending his use of LLMs, as @tante.cc expertly breaks down here:
Genuine question: does the #digitalhumanities need gen AI? Or is our work to imagine alternatives (psst, that's what I'm trying to do but I'm open to other ideas)
Ooooo. As a lapsed academic but a dhumanist at heart i might have things to say.
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Beautiful, ty!
#digitalhumanities folk: could you please recommend significant work on topic modeling and small language models that you might have come across?
I am close to tears; they listened and made an english version apache.be/2025/10/24/b...
@apache.be you rule 🖤
enshittification intensifies. google now throwing up wrong timezone difference information. what is additionally bizarre is that it links to the correct result in from the linked snippet (worldtimebuddy.com)
Just used this while facilitating an artist's residency encouraging them to challenge narratives about AI: used the Du Bois anecdote about his very intentional choices re: exhibiting to explain how to imagine the phenomenological relationship to data in space. They're keen to read it now!
Realising the academy only has itself to blame for the AI driven student plagiarism problem (at least in the humanities and social sciences) still largely entrenched in ossified modes of making knowledge available rewarded by systems like tenure made it easy for formulaic templates easy to emulate.
Sure, but a damaging one after a point, no? As @roopikarisam.bsky.social said upthread, we know this but the ostensible truth claim of it can be damaging to those when applied to contexts for which it is not appropriate.
Yes! Exactly the hope with my current project about indigeneity + small language models :) if communities are sharing knowledge, and we’re thinking of that as “data” - I’m interested in how they are semantically imagining that knowledge; I’m hoping that we’ll find smthg cognate but different.
Haha, but I’m grateful for you allowing yourself to be briefly distracted, this is so useful tysm. For me there’s *smthng* between the commons and what we call data but I’m guessing I’ll probably find the answer when your book comes out :D
@roopikarisam.bsky.social @laurenfklein would love to hear from you on this!
What are we doing about the semantic drift of the word data? In my explorations of indigeneity and data sovereignty, the word data feels less and less adequate for what it represents in this context. Ironically, data anchored in its original etymological context: what is given - is most appropriate.
*sighs in anne carson*
At a cultural sector conference + got into an argument w/ a self proclaimed technoutopian: after I declared capitalism is always inevitably corrupt: I was asked what the alternative is, accused of being socialist - I realised the model I want to see is not communist or socialist but *feminist*
Srsly why won't people realise that gen ai is just the most obsequious customer service dressed up as information making you believe it's knowledge
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Yay! Would love to hear your thoughts 💗
Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr
screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question). an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question: "there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask. it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same. it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.” there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."
applying for jobs again
is it my ignorance that leads me to believe that the early groundbreaking work of Alison Adam in feminist rethinking of the epistemological basis of AI is really not as central to teaching and research in the field as it should be?
somewhat: just the representation of the language is not sufficient, though. I'm keen to see how comprehensively it covers dialects, slang, colloquialisms -- have you had a chance to explore that further?
That's an ex student :D
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Vertigo?