Roland Meyer

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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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.

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • 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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AI is emerging as a political issue that could impact future elections. If progressive parties were smart, they'd give a voice to the growing opposition to big tech: «The only thing growing faster than the artificial-intelligence industry may be Americans’ negative feelings ab…

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What are you talking about? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

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AI Weekly's analysis
  • Data centers now account for 6% of total electricity consumption in both the UK and US, a significant upward revision from prior estimates.
  • Global data center energy demand rose 15% in two years, with AI identified as the primary driver of that acceleration.
  • Hyperscaler AI capital expenditure is running more than 80% above prior-year levels, signaling demand growth has not yet plateaued.
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Roland Meyer reposted
Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social

After a newsletter hiatus, sharing some questions that have come up around video diffusion models and what seems to be a phenomenon of a "dead frame": images that offer no further possible movement to the machine, which, as a result, cannot animate them. mail.cyberneticforests…

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Roland Meyer @bildoperationen.bsky.social

In three weeks from now: Symposium «AI Politics: Slop and #Slopaganda» Thursday, June 11, 5 PM at Schirn Kunsthalle w/ Ada Ackerman, Occitane Lacurie & Barnabé Sauvage, Antonio Somaini , Hito Steyerl, Wolfgang Ullrich @ideenfreiheit.bsky.social and yours truly www.schirn.de/en…

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Recent commentary

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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