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one of many reasons that the organized critique and refusal movement is overwhelmingly led by women (yes including women computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and engineers)
Yes, except for that breathless EA piece awhile back…
Imagine you have two machines. One you can open up and examine all of its workings, and if you give it every picture of a cat on the whole internet, it can reliably distinguish cats trom non-cats. The other is a black box and it can also reliably distinguish cats from non-cats if you give it half a dozen pictures of cats, some apple sauce, and a hug. These machines sort of do the same thing, but even without knowing how the second one works 1 am extremely confident in saying it doesn't work the same way as the first one.
A.I Isn’t People www.todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-...
Plus! The computer scientist from Brown also worked for Google DeepMind!! But that’s not disclosed, she’s just an academic asking questions!
You know it’s going to be bad when you can hear the PR email pitch in the subhed.
I am so tired of all the things that we said would happen, and were routinely ignored or dismissed by tech bros and neoliberals for saying would happen, continuing to happen, in exactly the way that we said they would happen.
Hard no to this: French publisher Harlequin has told translators that their work will now be done by AI. They can ‘revise’ AI translations at much lower rate. It’s a subsidiary of Harper Collins so treat this as a test for rollout elsewhere
The least of anyone’s problems but wow the iPhone “Liquid Glass” update is just more confirmation that everything now is worse for no good reason.
Write about this pls (or I will!!)
Hell yes @rebackermann.bsky.social:
"If we don’t want to live alongside other city residents, why do we live in this city at all?"
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Remember that Intuit (the owner of Turbotax) lobbied extensively to kill Direct File, which did tax filing for free and somehow managed to make a good and intuitive user experience without AI.
What’s driving Romancelandia’s success, and can other genres successfully emulate it? Spoiler alert: There’s a phenomenon called “an open-elite network.” @rebackermann.bsky.social for @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/books/2025/1...
The tight-knit but open-armed community that supports romance novels has become unignorable, enviable—and exceedingly difficult to replicate, Rebecca Ackermann writes.
Business Insider headline saying: "Sam Altman says your ChatGPT therapy session might not stay private in a lawsuit By Robert Scammell"
Wired headline that says "ICE Is Getting Unprecedented Access to Medicaid Data A new agreement viewed by WIRED gives ICE direct access to a federal database containing sensitive medical data on tens of millions of Americans, with the goal of locating immigrants."
I’m still not over the fact that there was an extremely popular award-winning movie over a decade ago about the perils of falling in love with a chatbot and a company decided to make the chatbot in the image of the movie’s chatbot and now quite a few people have decided to date it
A lot of people say generative AI shouldn't infringe on copyright. These researchers actually tried to do it. The result: an 8 terabyte dataset of text that's openly licensed or in the public domain & 7 B parameter model that performs as well as Meta's Llama 7B www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Ughhhh I’m sorry (to you & to all of us for losing you)
What no!!
I started a spreadsheet of Bay Area NEA Grantees for FY23–FY25. So far, there's ~85 arts orgs whose funding was likely withdrawn without any reimbursements going out. I'm expecting 3x that number when I get to the terminated grants.
docs.google.com/spreadsheets...
The rapid proliferation of AI in our lives introduces new challenges around authorship, authenticity, and ethics i. Work and art. How can we make sense of these machines, not just use them?
For @technologyreview.com I wrote about how the names we give generative machines really matter.
Such a fascinating read and so fun to write about!
I wrote about what we gain & lose when we let machines make art for us (& about @vauhinivara.bsky.social’s eerie new book) www.technologyreview.com/2025/04/11/1...
Calling it now: they’ll launch stablecoins as the new war bonds
An AI model that can write you say? Wonder who it learned how to do that from (& if these fair use cases are ever going to get settled) www.esquire.com/entertainmen...
It is now
More on how electronic monitoring is widening the dangerous power gap between workers & employers across the country www.technologyreview.com/2025/02/24/1...
