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Roland Meyer

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Digital Cultures and Arts | UZH & ZHdK | operative images, synthetic media and visual culture @digitalculturesandarts.ch https://digitalculturesandarts.ch/ https://linktr.ee/bildoperationen
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"the Holy Spirit challenges us .. regarding our relationship with technology & the ongoing digital revolution. Scientific discoveries are talents entrusted to humanity..Technology has the power to heal, connect, educate & protect our common home; but it can also divide www.vat…

Encyclical Letter of His Holiness Leo XIV Magnifica Humanitas (15 May 2026) vatican.va
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  • Pope Leo XIV's 42,300-word Magnifica Humanitas, signed May 15 and published May 25, addresses AI as the central challenge to human dignity.
  • The encyclical states AI systems are 'cultivated' not 'built' and explicitly denies they possess experience, a body, or the capacity to feel pain.
  • Anthropic co-founder Chris Olah spoke at the Vatican's May 25 presentation alongside theologians and three cardinals.
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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app

Weird how people react poorly when you tell them your product is going to ruin their livelihood, their future, and the planet.

wsj.com
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  • Local permit campaigns have already successfully blocked AI data center construction, creating a replicable model for future opposition.
  • Majority poll opposition to AI's development pace now gives legislators bipartisan political cover to push restrictive regulation.
  • Activist groups and legislators are coordinating across multiple simultaneous fronts, not acting as isolated individual incidents.
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wenn ihr mal einen schlechten tag habt, geht einfach auf diese fantastische seite hier und holt euch ne portion gute laune: isaiprofitable.com

Is AI Profitable Yet? isaiprofitable.com
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  • The AI industry has spent roughly $1.4 trillion against $613 billion in revenue, leaving almost every major player still in the red.
  • Amazon leads all spenders at $313 billion invested; NVIDIA is the sole major AI player currently in the black, profiting from hardware.
  • The site's anonymous creator predicts clarity on AI viability by 2030 and notes Anthropic recently approached its first profitable quarter.
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Mar Hicks @histoftech.bsky.social

New initiative from @karenhao.bsky.social airesistlist.org

The AI Resist List airesistlist.org
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  • Karen Hao launched the AI Resist List on the one-year anniversary of her book Empire of AI as a publicly accessible, community-contributed database.
  • The database organizes entries by 'Pillars of Support' sustaining AI empires, a framework adapted from Choose Democracy's authoritarianism resistance model.
  • Entries span labor actions, legal challenges, and grassroots campaigns across gig work, healthcare, education, and law enforcement sectors.
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«Generative AI is harmful enough when we understand it as a conventional technology, but if we confuse fluency at generating text with consciousness or moral agency, we’re at risk of assigning responsibility to entirely the wrong parties whenever anyone uses a chatbot.»

No, Artificial Intelligence Is Not Conscious theatlantic.com
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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

In visual culture & media theory, images from diffusion models are often analyzed through data critique: comparing what's produced to what's ingested. In this pre-print, I propose to look at the digestive system too: the decisions built into the system that automate specific i…

The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy arxiv.org
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  • Salvaggio argues latent diffusion models function as 'neural economies' that convert social communication into commensurable vectors for commodification.
  • The paper analyzes four pipeline components — CLIP, the autoencoder, U-Net, and classifier-free guidance — for embedded ideological positions.
  • Exclusive focus on copyright critique risks overlooking how the model's architecture itself transfers the social sphere into commodity form.
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LLMs are «really good at doing an impression of work, much like most managers and c-suite executives, and even if it’s completely incapable of doing something, it’ll absolutely say it can and tell you you’re amazing for suggesting it. And that’s why Business Idiots love it.» @…

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#Slop matters. But hardly for the reason this sloppy paper (which needed no less than nine authors) claims: «[P]eople want more content than humans can supply.» Really? No. Platforms want more content than humans can supply, and now machines can produce much more content than …

Why Slop Matters arxiv.org
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  • A paper accepted by ACM AI Letters argues AI slop deserves rigorous academic study rather than dismissal as digital pollution.
  • The authors define slop by three features: superficial competence, asymmetry of effort, and mass producibility.
  • They sort slop along three dimensions, instrumental utility, personalization, and surrealism, and liken it to historically dismissed 'low' cultural forms.
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I hear critical positions towards so-called «artificial intelligence» nowadays framed more and more as «rejectionism», and this is especially formulated as a critique of the left. The argument often goes something like this: Rather than seeing the potentials of AI, the left merely rejects it 1/

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Bis zum Beweis des Gegenteils gehe ich ab jetzt davon aus, dass ihr alle AI-generierte Shadowaccounts von Martin Burckhardt seid

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There's a certain kind of post-humanist theoretical kitsch that's even worse than humanist kitsch (especially concerning AI)

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