My dad wouldn’t let us play with Ouija boards when we were kids not because he necessarily believed they conjured evil spirits but because of the psychological effects of thinking you were conjuring them. Anyway that’s how I feel about AI panic, only if Oujia boards were run by a eugenicist sex cult
Very strange to me that one could critique critiques of Big Tech’s dominance by claiming that data center energy use isn’t real/isn’t a problem outside of the US. The ideological scaffolding and speculative investments behind “AI” are all too material and also global in their ambitions
Lucy Suchman’s keynote at @facct.bsky.social is a revelation. She’s citing media studies scholars like Orit Halpern and Lisa Gitelman while laying out in exacting terms how AI systems are used to perpetuate and legitimize genocide
A designer friend complained about being pressured to use AI. She named a new dynamic she’s seeing , where much of her job entails reading a pile of AI generated technical writing and providing feedback on it, enabling managers to outsource job responsibilities. A generator vs a reader/editor
I see the Very Famous Professor whose ghostwriter used AI to write me a brain picking email request has a new book out on chatbot communication
Is anyone writing (in a critical/compellimg way) about frontier lab AI slowdown calls amid the broader data center pause/moratorium push in San Francisco/the larger Bay Area?
Feeling very secure knowing that a clown car driven by Hegseth, Mullin, and Bessent will be evaluating AI models
Has anyone else received weirdly specific but clearly AI generated and sketchy emails from “recruiters”? Like the book club scam emails but more LinkedIn in shape
AI enabled deliberative democracy but it’s just a Habermasian ghost bot
State of the economy: spent some quality time trying to figure out if my brother’s interview was for an actual job or if it was all an AI enhanced scam
