Super happy to have been part in the organising of this years program for the CRC's lecture series "Media Environments: Between Capture and Surveillance". Come and pay us a visit, if you're interested in any of the talks and discussions. :)
Currently on my way to Amsterdam for the EASST/4s conference to present some research on voice assistants as a platformized infrastructure for the smart home together with @timmoritz.bsky.social#EASST4S2024 ✨
Ngl, this is bizarrely interesting from an art historical perspective as a kind of reverse Aby Warburg Mnemosyne atlas - as the LLM is a statistical tool it will reproduce somehow normative poses & formal compositions, which it ofc synthesized from whatever images were looted from the internet /1
A phantastic article on (albeit not surprising) data practices in large AI companies, perfectly summarised by this banger: "Researchers are divided on whether this method will work. A.I. executives are barreling ahead nonetheless. 'It should be all right,' Mr. Altman said at the conference."
Gift: Giant Tech Platforms Want All The Data and They're Breaking All The Rules To Get it. [my headline] 5 of the NYT most seasoned tech reporters tell us what's going on. Gift link!
OpenAI, Google and Meta ignored corporate policies, altered their own rules and discussed skirting copyright law as they sought online information to train their newest artificial intelligence systems...
Cartography of generative AI: cartography-of-generative-ai.net Yes, give me the map-splaining. Give me the materiality of digital media. Show me the labour.
There's a big job opening as a scientific coordinator (post doc, four years, full time) at the CRC 1187 media of cooperation in Siegen. If you're interested in STS and or media studies and want to work with international and interdisciplinary folks, here you go! jobs.uni-siegen.de/job/Research...
we’re 5 DAYS into 2024 & *125* anti-trans bills have been filed across the US. do cis people know this map? this is risk for *adult* trans people across america. FL is already “do not travel.” i must have a few cis followers. please share this. consider if you could live in a country like this.
