While golf courses exist in the desert, building a bunch of new golf courses in the desert would be controversial. One could imagine data center companies buying Phoenix golf-courses and replacing them with xeriscaped data center campuses, but that is not what's happening.
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Prof developing fast algorithms, reliable software, and healthy communities for computational science. Opinions my own. https://hachyderm.io/@jedbrown
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Majority of US’s new AI datacenters to be built on drought-hit land theguardian.com
ft.com
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Contra Literacy-Laundering: Mechanistic Critical AI Literacy | Zenodo doi.org
Protecting our FLOSS commons from LLMs — Codeberg News blog.codeberg.org
chronicle.com
OSF osf.io
Computer Says Kill: The AI Safety Circus w/ Heidy Khlaaf themaybe.org
CASP — Cambridge Programme on AI Science & Policy | University of Cambridge casp.ac
aiforensics.org
doi.org
The AI fight brewing inside The New York Times theverge.com
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It's notable that the report has been out for 8 months and this was only detected because an "AI" vendor (GPTZero) had an adversarial interest. So much for the discernment capabilities of business/finance/executives. www.ft.com/content/b382...
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the whole episode is out today: www.youtube.com/watch?v=5twr...
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> “when men use AI, we question their effort; when women use AI, we question their integrity” [...] (Pringle, 2026). What is framed as a literacy deficit is [actually] a form of rational refusal [&] within that frame, the only direction of travel is toward more adoption. doi.o…
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- Ishani Ray and Olivia Guest argue LLM critique has split between the stochastic parrot dismissal and pragmatic accommodation, and that both misdiagnose the problem.
- The Zenodo preprint reframes the question as not whether LLMs work but what kind of working is happening and at whose cost.
- The authors propose a mechanistic critical AI literacy along cognitive, pedagogical, and political dimensions grounded in the epistemology of those most harmed.
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This has many examples, with rationale, of software communities (in many cases, research software) engaged in refusal and various middle grounds. See also Codeberg's policy: blog.codeberg.org/protecting-o...
Live by the slop, die by the slop. > “Jay telling us to question [AI’s] output and then asking AI to rank the UWs and then presenting it to us is comical,” Noah Fritz, a regent, who is a student, wrote to Jack Salzwedel, another regent, during the February board meeting.
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💀 Pygmalion displacement 💀 doi.org/10.31235/osf...
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- A 2023 preprint argues AI development follows a 'Pygmalion displacement' pattern, progressively replacing women with technological objects.
- Authors trace the pattern to Turing's imitation game, calling displacement 'unacknowledged' in AI's foundational thought experiment.
- The paper proposes a 10-question diagnostic tool to identify when Pygmalion displacement is occurring in a given AI system.
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An excellent interview with @heidykhlaaf.bsky.social on safety engineering (in contrast to the clown show of "AI safety"). This discussed abdication of standards and safety revisionism is paralleled in computational science & engineering with abandonment of verification and va…
If a US psyop led to 18 Boko Haram members jumping motorcycles to their deaths, they would be gloating about it on every talk show. Tired: running Boko Haram like a business. Wired: running the business like Boko Haram. casp.ac/reports/ai-e...
New investigation from AI Forensics finds HuggingFace Spaces (which are subsidized) for "Image Editing" are primarily used to generate non-consensual intimate imagery of non-celeb real people, including CSAM, and lack even cursory "guardrails" (which are a scam). aiforensics.o…
Editor in Chief of Science: AI in scientific publishing: Slower, worse, and more expensive.
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OUR FIGHT: We have taken legal action against The Times for using AI programs to surveil and monitor our members. Read The Verge article here: www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
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