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Really concerning news from the UK Government: it looks like despite their consultation where something like only 3% of respondents were in favour of changing copyright legislation to allow presumptive use for AI training, they're going ahead with the changes anyway.
Bad news all round!
We are SO excited to announce that on Tuesday 24 March we're organising an online panel discussion focused on the topic of Transcription for Racial Justice.
Tickets cost £7.50, with 15% of profits going to Crips for eSims for Gaza and Phoenix City Farm, West London
"Thanks so much for your super interesting talk, Zara. You’ve definitely given me food for thought."
We've had lovely feedback from our Founder & CEO's webinar on Epistemic Injustice, Oppression and Ignorance on Tuesday night.
Missed the session but still keen to watch? Get your replay here:
You're an expert in your field, but somehow you're stuck figuring out how to get from data collection to publication without spending ages troubleshooting transcripts.
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There's calls for an international boycott of ChatGPT from Rutger Bregman in today's Guardian, after it was revealed Open AI's president is one of Donald Trump's largest campaign funders.
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This was wildly good folks - if epistemic injustice is even tangentially relevant to your research this is well worth watching (hopefully will share some more thought out thoughts later)
"Massive thanks for such an inspiring and useful lens to bring to my work and to invigorate it."
We had a fantastic time at last night's webinar on Epistemic Injustice, Oppression and Ignorance for social researchers.
If you missed it and want the replay, you can still sign-up here:
‼️ Last chance to join this evening's free webinar with our founder, Dr Zara Bain.
Aimed at social researchers, join us for an accessible introduction to the big, bold philosophical concepts every social researcher should know.
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I have not fully recovered my voice but my eyes are no longer gooey and I can swallow again! Yay!
Also I am a complete sucker for the just masses of enthusiasm I’ve received from non-philosophers for offering this little webinar that I am so excited to hang out
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I’m doing this tomorrow after some sleep, finishing my slides, maybe washing my hair, it’s going to be fun, come along
I will not promise a complete overview of the lit on epistemic injustice because lol no fucking way but I can promise a useful introduction to epistemic oppression/ignorance
Thanks very much for the recommendation. We’d be delighted to offer a free no obligation quotation @marisakabas.bsky.social and we’re distinctive in that we done use AI
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Are you a social researcher interested in, perhaps even applying, the notion of epistemic injustice to your work?
Our Founder & CEO, Dr Zara Bain, researches this and related concepts epistemic oppression and epistemologies of ignorance.
Join her for a free webinar tomorrow evening at 7pm GMT.
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A scary read from this week for those considering getting LinkedIn Verification--you might be handing over your personal biometric data to tens of US companies, including OpenAI.
thelocalstack.eu/posts/linked...
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Heard of the term 'epistemic injustice' before but not sure what it means? Coined by British philosopher Miranda Fricker in her 2007 book, Epistemic Injustice: Power and the Politics of Knowing'.
But as an idea, it has a much longer history than that. Learn more at our webinar next Tuesday at 7pm.
But do consider still joining us next week for a hopefully glitch free webinar (we’re academics and transcribers before we are email comms managers, it’s true—sorry folks) funnels.academicaudiotranscription.com/intro-episte...
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