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Read our new issue on LLMs, gen AI, and rise of chatbots! Follow us on Mastodon + Bluesky where our editor now posts.
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We'll do a more full-throated introduction to our just-published issue in due course. But for now: here 'tis. Congrats to editors and all contributors. Please disseminate widely as free access disappears after the first few weeks! read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
In “Endangered Judgment,” political theorist Luke Fernandez critiques the dominance of instrumental reason. Drawing on Joseph Weizenbaum’s (and Hannah Arendt’s) distinction between calculation and judgment, he warns machine logic replacement undermines human responsibility.
Three artists from Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (“Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems”) take on AI by flipping AI and turn logic into a playful critique of creativity and control—a sharp read for anyone into art, tech, or resistance.
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Anti-AI views ≠ boomer “get off my lawn.” Young adults’ respond more negatively.
“Pew Research Center found nearly 1/2 of respondents would like a painting less if they learned it was made by AI; younger adults were even more likely to respond negatively to AI-generated media.”
A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. wired.com/story/taylor-swift…
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I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in @CriticalAI : read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.
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Sneak preview of an article about Eryk’s, Caro’s and my work — to be published soon in @CriticalAI
criticalai.org/2025/01/17/sn…
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The UK's Intellectual Property Office has tweeted about the government's proposals, which would allow AI companies to train on copyrighted work without a licence.
They've asked for your views, so I encourage you to reply to their tweet.
The UK government AI and Copyright Consultation opens today.
We want to hear from a wide range of voices.
Respond to the consultation to share your views. [Link]: gov.uk/government/consultati…
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This development illustrates that the ethical issues around the building of AI models designed to produce derivative text &/or images isn’t limited to the issue of consent. We need to ask ourselves broader questions about AI production & the impact on creators & society.
@Knibbs
Harvard says it's releasing a high-quality dataset of ~1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, to help train LLMs and AI tools (@knibbs / Wired)
wired.com/story/harvard-ai-t…
techmeme.com/241212/p1#a2412…
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Happy to repost this wonderful grouping. We hope that they-and you-are also reading peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scholarship in #criticalAIstudies.
read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
Check out Zachary Zimmer's preprint review of Fei-Fei Li's memoir on #CriticalAI's blog!
criticalai.org/2024/11/08/sn…
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Essential reading. @ednewtonrex forcefully & thoughtfully sets out why societies should adopt (or maintain) legislative frameworks that require AI companies to affirmatively obtain consent prior to using creative works to train AI models. 🙏🏼⚖️
ed.newtonrex.com/optouts
This looks potentially interesting (though none of us has as yet read it).
The paper discusses the growing challenges of the "memory wall" problem, where the speed of memory and communication is not keeping up with the exponential growth in compute power. This is becoming a major bottleneck for training and serving large AI models, particularly in the domain of natural language processing.
The findings demonstrate that memory bandwidth, rather than compute, is becoming the primary bottleneck for decoder models like GPT-2, especially at low batch sizes. This is due to the higher memory operations and lower arithmetic intensity of the matrix-vector operations inherent in the auto-regressive inference of these models.
full paper: openread.academy/en/paper/re…
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I will humbly note that I argued back in April that the AI promises were — in the truest sense of the term — smoke and mirrors
bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-r…
Not directly AI-related but relevant to its ecosystem. MSM bake in narratives before adding all the ingredients--like the most populous state in the country!
thenation.com/article/politi…
Just learned for the first time about this Princeton response to the infamously crummy MSFT puffpiece, "Sparks of AGI."
Haven't read it yet but the title alone is well worth the price of admission.
Embers indeed!
arxiv.org/abs/2309.13638
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As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access.
A thread, with links:
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The election debacle cannot be entirely blamed on the failures of our media system, but such long-standing systemic pathologies certainly played a key role. Likewise, rebuilding a vibrant information infrastructure must be a central piece of a broader re-democratization project.
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Very happy to share this worthy enterprise from @RosenzweigJane. Looking forward to reading!
A good opportunity to say that in the future #criticalAI will be spending less time here and more on the blue space. Please find us there...
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AI policy is, at present, way too dependent on a cooperating executive branch. Part of this trend was pragmatic (ie agencies hold the tech expertise, legislation is slow & difficult, etc), but it's exhausting to reset & re-strategize at the start of every new administration.
I'll go further and say that @Adobe (which I use primarily for marking up pdfs) is in full-on enshittified. It's aggressive preference for its own cloud platform is invasive (I struggle to save work to my hard drive.)
And the AI button gets in the way of EVERYTHING.
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