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Multiple readings Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions Multiple readings Beware the AI Prophets: Hype, Doom, and Prediction as Tools of Control w/ Carissa Véliz Concern & critique · 2 attributable reactions
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Established AI field signal Development 16d ago
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Muse AI friend family profiles

Muse Creates Detailed Profiles of All Your Friends and Family

6 experts across 3 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Carissa Véliz Luke Stark Karl Bode VE, cybersocial occult investigator Reece Stefanie Hane
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Multiple readings

Concern & critique

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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“Sometimes we make the simple complicated. Meta's current business model depends on #surveillance; therefore, the incentive is for it to design products to further that surveillance, not to benefit you (much less your friends and family!). www.wired.com/stor…”

Policy & governance

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Rules, institutions and accountability.

“good thing we don't live in a country too corrupt to pass a modern internet privacy law or regulate data brokers”

Primary source wired.com ↗
Established AI field signal Development 17d ago
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London facial recognition false positive

Trial of live facial recognition in London stations leads to a false positive and no arrests

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Carissa Véliz Rosamunde Van Brakel Mary Branscombe By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)

“The most important cost is not the £320,000 and the 100 hours of police time, it's the loss in civil liberties. There is no democracy without privacy, and we erode them both at our peril. More in Privacy Is Power: amzn.eu/d/0gCH29i5 www.theguardian.com/tech…”

“Freedom of information request finds six-month trial cost £320,000, used almost 100 police hours and led to just one – incorrect – alert www.theguardian.com/technology/2...”

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Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
AI prophecy doom prediction control essay

Beware the AI Prophets: Hype, Doom, and Prediction as Tools of Control w/ Carissa Véliz

4 experts across 2 network communities independently surfaced this.

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Carissa Véliz Mél Hogan / The Data Fix Alix Dunn Social Media Lab
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Risks, limits and unintended consequences.

“AI is prediction, not fact. Predictions concern the future; facts belong to the present and the past. - @carissaveliz.bsky.social www.themaybe.org/podcast/bewa...”

Context & explanation

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Background, chronology and why it matters.

“AI execs want you to believe that their predictions are inevitable. But really, it’s just marketing. I spoke with @carissaveliz.bsky.social about her new book ‘Prophecy.’ We explore the history of predictions as a tool to secure power. Catch the conversatio…”

Primary source themaybe.org ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 8d ago
NostradamusGPT prophecy psychology essay

NostradamusGPT: The Psychology of Prophecy and How to Break Free from the Prison of Predictive Technologies

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Mar Hicks Carissa Véliz Luke Stark

“Honoured and grateful for this shout out from @mariapopova.bsky.social of whom I am a big fan! “In an epoch when it is difficult to say anything original about AI, [Prophecy] offers a revelatory look at the prison we have chosen to live inside and a key out…”

Primary source themarginalian.org ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 18d ago

carissaveliz.com

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Carissa Véliz VE, cybersocial occult investigator ae

“Now that I finished it, I highly recommend @carissaveliz.bsky.social’s book Prophecy. Very important critical study of the nature and role of predictions and prophecies not as a means of understanding the future but as the social exercise of the will to pow…”

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VE, cybersocial occult investigator: Really hammering home what I've been saying about performance and make-believe as a form of collective reality-changing magic that has come to dominate the imaginary, and ultimately the techology a…
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: As @wolven.blacksky.app says, all the worst people figured out that magic (in this case, belief-altering chaos magic) is real, and they are using it against you to accumulate even more power.
VE, cybersocial occult investigator: All the MAGA "meme magic" stuff operated on exactly the same principle, and it was equally wildly successful at its intended goal of enscorselling a bunch of people into the mainstreaming of fascis…
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Primary source carissaveliz.com ↗
New AI field signal Signal 9h ago

Ai delphic oracle

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Carissa Véliz

“Really enjoyed participating in this episode about the Oracle of Delphi for CBC. Can you imagine what it must've been like to make a pilgrimage there and ask a question to the Pythia? And do you know what was the Oracle's last prediction? Check it out. www.…”

Primary source cbc.ca ↗
Established AI field signal Signal 7d ago

The ai boom is threatened by an epidemic of unreliable numbers

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Carissa Véliz

“Great article on the great act of creativity that accounting is. The problem runs deeper than this article suggests. If you want to understand it better, read Chapters 2 and 6 of "Prophecy" (on the history of statistics and the problems of data). www.econom…”

Primary source economist.com ↗
Established AI field signal Analysis 10d ago
AI corrupts language Veliz essay

Stop Messing With My Language, AI.

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Carissa Véliz

“My latest on The Antidote: On the culture baked in language, the pleasures of Spanglish, and infuriating automatic AI translations. Isn’t it incredible that we can preserve some sayings word for word through centuries? What does that tell us? carissaveliz.s…”

Primary source carissaveliz.substack.com ↗