The Who's Who of AI

“Most of the Image Editing "Spaces" run on ZeroGPU, which is free to users and developers (paid for by HuggingFace investors). Many of those Spaces are advertised as NSFW and there is no claiming HuggingFace has been unaware of what they're used for.”

“New investigation from AI Forensics finds HuggingFace Spaces (which are subsidized) for "Image Editing" are primarily used to generate non-consensual intimate imagery of non-celeb real people, including CSAM, and lack even cursory "guardrails" (which are a …”

““There are wider signs that enthusiasm around AI investments could be slowing, as questions grow over the profitability and productivity growth the technology can bring.” www.politico.eu/article/ai-b...”

“Some-claude-shared-conversations-and-artifacts-appear-to-be-indexed-and-publicly-accessible-on-google-search venturebeat.com/technology/uh-… #AI #Claude #privacy”

“"In the world we live in today, any policies for embracing the adoption of 'artificial intelligence' must also be understood as policies for expanding the dominion of capital,” writes Jathan Sadowski. ht: @14prinsp.bsky.social”

“I have a new article where I outline a materialist analysis of the machine learning value chain via three interrelated concepts that are all key for understanding this political economy: innovation realism, cheap data, and the perpetual value machine. Prepr…”