Research includes social media use and profiling, emerging AI tech related to media, cinema and stars. Other blog: @filmstarstudies
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World is not enough, let's invade the space step by step!
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OpenAI president Greg Brockman said Elon Musk wanted the company to create a for-profit entity—and endured a public peek into his diary. trib.al/enUkTVZ
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This is one of the more interesting cases I’ve heard for why we should put AI data centers in space. Yes, it would benefit a few billionaires, but it could also lessen the environmental toll on Earth. And we’re going to need to cut AI's carbon footprint in as many ways as we can.
Space architect @ariel_ekblaw and I went deep on the opportunities—and many challenges—of building AI infrastructure in orbit. Watch our conversation here: youtube.com/watch?v=zBCK0GdF…
Produced by @atlanticrethink, The Atlantic's creative marketing studio, in collaboration with @PwC.
"AI makes its own decisions," the Anthropic model exemplified. It becomes apparent that there was no input, but the outcome is shocking;
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Interesting talk, loved how AI is approached.
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While social media is polarising, evidence suggests AI may nudge people towards the centre.
This holds true of all studied models. Grok is more right-leaning than other models, but also has depolarising effects.
By @jburnmurdoch.
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A potentially significant moment in the AI race: More studies presented at the world’s top AI conference last year came from lead authors based in China than in the US. economist.com/interactive/sc…
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Why this asymmetry? We also found that X's algorithm promotes political activists (especially conservative ones) and demotes traditional news media. With algorithm exposure, users follow these accounts and continue to follow them even after switching to the chronological feed.
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The key finding is that switching from a chronological to an algorithmic feed shifted users toward more conservative positions: policy priorities, views on Trump's criminal investigations, and attitudes toward the war in Ukraine all shifted to the right.
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Can feed algorithms shape what people think about politics? Our paper "The Political Effects of X's Feed Algorithm" is out today in @Nature and answers "Yes".
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Meta unveiled agreements that would make it a major anchor customer for new and existing nuclear power in the U.S., where it needs city-size amounts of electricity for its AI data centers on.wsj.com/3NbAPfc
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#OutNow in #iCS
“Infrastructural consent” is when consent becomes a protocol. This article shows how robots.txt flattens ethical debate into technical parameters, and why the AI scraping “consent crisis” exposes problems in web architecture.
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What happens to Benjamin’s “aura” in the age of generative AI?
This article argues that GenAI intensifies distantiation and automates remix at scale, deepening the precariousness of creative labour under platform capitalism.
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Google has pushed back against viral claims that #Gmail is mining users' messages to train its #Gemini AI model in an official statement via Gmail's X account. digitaltrends.com/computing/…