Pluralistic: I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine (29 Jan 2024)

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I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine: The Mechanical Turk would like to have a word with all of us.
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Pluralistic: Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping" (25 Sept 2023)

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Podcasting "How To Think About Scraping": How to preserve the benefits of web-scraping while targeting the real harms.
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Pluralistic: How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars (07 Sept 2023)

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How plausible sentence generators are changing the bullshit wars: My September column in Locus Magazine.
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Pluralistic: The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships (26 July 2023)

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The surprising truth about data-driven dictatorships: No autocrat is more powerful than GIGO.
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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: 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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Pluralistic: 11 Oct 2022 Trusting (machine learning) trust; The housing market turns (more) toxic

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Undetectable, undefendable back-doors for machine learning: IMPNet will give your model hallucination and you can't stop it.
Shelter in place: Prison for homelessness and lock-ins for home owners.
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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: 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: 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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