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Who's Who of AI
Lori Emerson
media studies professor | Other Networks: A Radical Technology Sourcebook (Anthology Editions, May 2025) | dir. @mediaarchaeology.bsky.social | http://loriemerson.net | Boulder, Colorado | 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🏃♀️🚴♀️ | 📷 Jenna Maurice
What they're sharing
bloodinthemachine.com
[2603.18964] Terms of (Ab)Use: An Analysis of GenAI Services arxiv.org
Articles & links
"Imagine you purchase bread for a sandwich but then discover that your toaster refuses to work because the bread is ‘unauthorised’. You read the toaster’s terms and conditions and find that it had lots of ‘rules’ on what you could or couldn’t do with the toaster, [1/2]
Their own posts
Recent commentary
and some days you get to read a dissertation on corporate AI that is so richly and smartly funny and fine-tuned: "Like a disappointing husband, the corporation weaponizes its incompetence."
I was on KGNU radio this morning (long time community radio station in Boulder) to talk CU x AI and damn it's fun being on the radio, especially w/a host who describes himself as "a paranoid old Jew" & likes to quote from Marx. also, taking live phone calls on the air? yes please! #othernetworks