Hagen Blix

Obviously, it's the business school. Can I return to my theme of "AI bullshit reveals that everything was bullshit all along"?

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Please tell me again how you using all our data, books, etc to train your models is fine, but someone else using the output of your models to train theirs is a heinous crime

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Why Bernie Sanders is wrong - and nationalizing AI is a bad idea "AI is, above all else, a weapon of class war from above. Whether it’s the state that wields it or corporations does little to change that fact."

The Socialist Case Against Nationalizing AI jacobin.com

At least we live in the time line where we can ask fascinating questions like "What of your marketing AI suggests making fun of massacres?" I guess

How a Starbucks marketing stunt spiralled into mass boycotts in South Korea theguardian.com

I thought this was a fruitful discussion of the critique of AI with Jacob Blumenfeld, @robin-c.bsky.social, @mttpsq.bsky.social, @annanosthoff.bsky.social, @bildoperationen.bsky.social, @rainermuehlhoff.bsky.social

Critique of AI: with Matteo Pa…–Critical Theory in Context – Apple Podcasts podcasts.apple.com

Looks like it's Anti-Prime Day over at bookshop.org. Look, I don't think boycotts or corporate anti-corp stuff is an alternative to organizing.. but, hey, grab a copy of Why We Fear AI w/ free shipping

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Effective Altruism guy goes to FTX, hops over to OpenAI when FTX explodes, gets fired from OpenAI and then starts a hedge fund called - I kid you not - "Situational Awareness" that loses a cool $22,000,000,000 (so far) Amazing stuff

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It'd be nice if people actually read what Sanders' proposal is about: It's about putting half of the big AI companies' stock into an independent national fund. Independence really means designed to minimize the possibility of popular control. President nominates and senate con…

Everybody Should Welcome Nationalizing AI jacobin.com

Almost like we should ask ourselves who's afraid of AI, and why

Why We Fear AI: On the Interpretation of Nightmares — Common Notions Press commonnotions.org

Stuff along these lines (just a fairly random example, I'm sure there's other stuff around)

Classifying the Unknown: In-Context Learning for Open-Vocabulary Text and Symbol Recognition arxiv.org

The better AI gets, the more (and more subtle) AI psychoses we're gonna see, especially among intellectually inclined people. Not because the machines make you insane, but because it's becoming painfully obvious that sanity isn't just an individual-level property, but something social, ...

The German state of Bavaria is trying to ban AI bans in academia. Can't make this shit up

I've just been told that apparently Cory Doctorow's new book, The Reverse-Centaur's Guide to Criticizing AI, starts with an anecdote about him listening to me talk about Why We Fear AI on This Machine Kills 😂 Someone write a double review of the two books please!

What's your favorite critical writing on AI and education?

Have you come across any good writing on a positive vision for automation, and how it'd be different from the stuff currently being sold as AI?

Lovely company for Why We Fear AI at The Word is Change, Brooklyn! The Edge of Space Time by @chanda.blacksky.app Empire of AI by @karenhao.bsky.social Interface Frictions by Neir Alexander, Marsha by Tourmaline, The New Age of Sexism by Laura Bates

I don't think you can do the whole "stock market and real economy inversely correlated because cheap money produces asset inflation" game forever, and I suspect that when this shit goes bust (with great AI assistance), they won't have any idea what to do

Ingeborg Glimmer and me are thinking about doing a second, expanded edition of Why We Fear AI Folks who have read it (or not I guess!) - what are some things you'd like to see us expand on, what are things we missed, what are things that are new? Please share your thoughts, ideas and feedback!