Pluralistic: The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble (09 Mar 2023)

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The AI hype bubble is the new crypto hype bubble: Someday, we're gonna feel pretty silly about our autocomplete worship.
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Pluralistic: Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem (09 Feb 2023)

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Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem: The machine-learning monkey's paw.
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Pluralistic: The Collective Intelligence Institute (07 Feb 2023)

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The Collective Intelligence Institute: Asking more than 'what technology does' and demanding to know who it does it FOR and who it does it TO.
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Pluralistic: 21 Oct 2022 Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion

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Backdooring a summarizerbot to shape opinion: Model spinning maintains accuracy metrics, but changes the point of view.
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Car Wars

The Real Trolley Problem

A Times Square traffic jam; all the cars’ windscreens have been filled with the menacing red eye of HAL9000 from 2001: A Space Odyssey. The background has been filled with a Matrix “code-waterfall” effect. — joiseyshowaa/CC BY-SA 2.0 (modified); Cryteria/CC BY 3.0 (modified)

Author’s Note: This short story was originally commissioned by Deakin College as part of an AI ethics course; they have since take it down. This is its new home. For a nonfiction analysis of the problems set forth herein, see my Guardian column on the subject. Here’s an audio edition.

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Pluralistic: 07 Jun 2022

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James Bridle's "Ways of Being": Dispatches from the more than human world.
Fake Christian health insurance and other big cons: If you have to trick people into hearing your message, you are in a cult.
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Pluralistic: 26 May 2022

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Attacking machine learning training by re-ordering data: Boy it's hard to audit an AI.
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Pluralistic: 02 May 2022

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Podcasting "Revenge Of the Chickenized Reverse Centaurs": The relationship between algorithms, interoperability and worker power.
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Pluralistic: 23 Mar 2022

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Facebook's genocide filters are really, really bad: An AI that can't recognize its own training data is a very, very bad AI.
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Pluralistic: 19 Aug 2021

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Machine learning's crumbling foundations: Doing 'data science' with bad data.
Hench: The madcap rage of life under vigilante rule.
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