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DAIR whose categories whose AI essay

Whose Categories? Whose AI?

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute
“"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced …” evidence ↗
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Eryk Salvaggio The Distributed AI Research (DAIR) Institute Milagros Miceli Dr Zena Assaad

“"The community must be the author of its own world." @adiod.bsky.social envisions a future in which a Zimbabwean community rejects an AI surveillance program and designs a cattle-tracking system, drawing upon the relational data governance it has practiced …”

“"The villagers are confronting a standard order of operations: the system arrives first, the problem is expected to arrange itself around the system, and the knowledge needed to define both is settled in another hemisphere." dair-institute.org/blog/whose-c...”

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Why this matches Concern & critique reaction 1 attributable expert contribution · Eryk Salvaggio
“Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...” evidence ↗
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Eryk Salvaggio Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue Dr Zena Assaad

“Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...”

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Eryk Salvaggio: Of interest to some folks here, Lauren Goodlad on LLM text, literary theory and stochastic parrots — (Goodlad is the editor of @criticalai-journal.bsky.social) : online.ucpress.edu/representati...
Eryk Salvaggio: Engages significantly with @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social et al’s “Again Theory,” which I’ve often been looking at myself this year critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/27/a...
Matthew Kirschenbaum: Yes, I just read it with interest (as they say).
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