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Commentator with public evidence across AI research, NLP & language.
We got a bunch of internal Amazon memes in which employees mock Amazon's own AI, refer to its output as “slop,” and joke about the company’s failed attempt to motivate employees to use AI tools effectively. More here: www.404media.co/sloppenheime...
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
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."
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
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
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…
I think adopting the "automation" frame is already falling for a bourgeois trap. What this mostly is about is deskilling, and deskilling is not a form to increase productivity, but to cheapen labor and thus shift the total social income form labor to capital I think you'd enjo…
When the wage depression device also mucks up information flow in the labor market: Oh, look, yet another contradiction within capitalism!
Let's radicalize people into organizing not terrorism
Great essay, wish I would have seen this a lot earlier! I think we share a lot of perspective - Ingeborg Glimmer and I actually start our whole book with the question of why people might like to hear narratives like that. Might be interesting to you, would love to hear your th…
AI for Stochastic Terror Racist policing is getting a new tool 1/
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
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?
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!
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