Fears of "machine take-over" raise reasonable skepticism. Here is why corporations can use machines to gradually automate our work more economically efficiently:
Two years ago, an in-depth talk about Israeli misuse of tech to capture and extract from Palestinians: www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzWK...
I would like to wake up tomorrow to find that all the prevailing directions and highest likelihood potentialities of sociopolitical power were geared toward compassion and community instead of individualized greed and power-over. Sure would be nice.
Thanks @valentinhofmann.bsky.socialarxiv.org/abs/2403.00742
Hundreds of millions of people now interact with language models, with uses ranging from serving as a writing aid to informing hiring decisions. Yet these language models are known to perpetuate...
lmao, a company that's built on the foundations of stolen data accuses another company also built on the foundation of stolen data of theft https://80.lv/articles/midjourney-accuses-stability-ai-of-theft-bans-its-employees/
Apparently, MJ is now in conflict with Stable Diffusion developer over image theft. Ironic.
I've said it before, but AI is the new bureaucracy, the new blackbox decision-maker the purpose of which is not to make decisions, but to obscure accountability and prevent any purchase in arguing against those decisions
this will be what AI is mostly used for, not new insights or even replacing jobs but just doing evil shit that helps bottom lines and people can pretend it wasnt their decision www.statnews.com/2023/03/13/m...
A STAT investigation found artificial intelligence is driving Medicare Advantage denials to new heights, cutting off care for seniors.
“such technologies may exacerbate job insecurity, workload intensification, routinisation and loss of work meaningfulness, as well as disempowerment and loss of autonomy, all of which detract from overall employee wellbeing”
“The authors found that the more workers were exposed to technologies in three of these categories – software based on AI and machine learning; surveillance devices such as wearable trackers; and robotics – the worse their health and wellbeing tended to be.”
Tech such as laptops, tablets and instant messaging has more positive effect on wellbeing, says thinktank
The makers of AI chatbots ChatGPT and Claude pledged to send voter questions to trusted sources, CanIVote.orgTurboVote.org, respectively. But in our tests, neither ChatGPT 3.5 nor Claude 3 Sonnet ever referred to those websites in responses to voter queries. Our latest:
AI companies have made pledges in recent months to limit the potential for election misinformation on their platforms. Those promises are proving hard to keep. OpenAI, which created the ChatGPT model...
But I’ve been told tech moves too fast to regulate 🙄