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Anthropologist studying AI and technology
Residents of Ypsilanti Township protested against the construction of an AI data center. Now, in a show of support that’s often rare from local leaders, the board is joining the fight, calling out Michigan Gov. Whitmer. @mjgault.bsky.social writes: www.404media.co/we-will-figh...
“We’re not excited to see these advancements in AI if it means it’s going to pollute our environment, spread misinformation, track us and take our jobs…”
> Even if the MS Office team employed a philosopher who said you shouldn’t be so certain, because consciousness is not well understood, that would not be sufficient reason for you to take this idea seriously we're so close to talking about how thoroughly captured by big tech H…
I've been running Follow the Crypto since 2024. Today I'm relaunching it as Tech Influence Watch, expanded to cover AI political spending alongside crypto. They’ve spent more than $400 million this election cycle, and now you can follow it in close to real time. influence.cita…
The purpose of this technology is not to accurately identify people but rather to instill in everyone the fear that they are constantly being watched.
NEW — My first true foray into AI haterdom is about how those of us not convinced by AI’s inevitability are a real constituency worthy of a voice. Give it a read:
Google unveils an even worse Search aftermath.site/google-search-...
AI Skeptics reading group meeting in about an hour. if you want to drop in, i shared this video and offered some reflections on it. it's not too late to watch it if you want, but watch it ASAP @jasonkoebler.bsky.social, @samleecole.bsky.social, @xoxogossipgita.bsky.social, and…
hadn't seen this on my timeline yet, but it looks interesting from an initial skim
finally a good video on kosinski's loathsome gaydar paper (and other AI projects in that space)
whenever someone tells me what a chatbot said i feel myself die a little bit on a number of levels all at once
last week we saw policies regarding AI from arxiv & from berkeley law school - both substantially limiting reckless use of AI (with different goals, methods, etc). i'm curious if anyone here is aware of other recent-ish new policies on AI use in workplaces or related settings. (let's say in 2026)
man, i'm kinda fascinated by the generative ai disclosure sections in these FAccT papers.
apartment-searching in 2026 is bad. i've become grateful for clumsy photoshop jobs that layer generic png assets over crappy jpegs. better than ai-generated garbage that violates euclidean geometry, to say nothing of strains credulity that this place would exist in the city in question.
i feel like if i was an admin at a university trying to advance the use of AI, i would try really really hard to make sure that all of my work was unassailable, even if it meant hiring an extraordinary team of editors & fact checkers that would be impossible for other university employees to employ.
super impressed with @uhleeeeeeeshuh.bsky.social's work on supporting bottom-up resistance to harmful AI systems. she just presented her dissertation work and is doing Q&A now
i'm going to remember random thoughts from FAccT over the course of the next few days during a panel i was on, someone asked about the feeling that AI is kind of everywhere and like... what do we do about it if we're talking about resistance, or refusal, or even destruction.
to be found by the zionists, AI dipshits, etc.. on here is like discovering a little pile of dust i had overlooked, and can now sweep up and get out of the house.
can someone tell me if the story from axios about an unnamed company spending $500M in a month on AI services is real or if it's the kind of thing where it's "$500M worth of tokens except nobody pays that rate, and so $50k actually changed hands" kind of nonsense, kind of like this stupid shit?
i saw the chatGPT demo of "full duplex" mode and it honestly just pissed me off lol. like literally every time it interrupted those women it was so irritating.
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