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Baptiste Caramiaux
@bcaramiaux.bsky.social
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Researcher, Teacher
Human-AI Interaction, Tech Studies
Works at CNRS, Sorbonne Université in Paris
https://baptistecaramiaux.com
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How can we evaluate GenAI as cultural technology?

#GenAI is cultural & social but most eval lean on technical benchmarks. In a new paper with 30+ researchers we introduce a framework that evaluates GenAI not only on performance, but on meaning

📖 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#academicbluesky
September 3, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Reposted by Baptiste Caramiaux
datasociety.bsky.social
Our team’s research on how people interact with mental health chatbots is more about the people than the bots, researcher @briana-v.bsky.social‬ writes. datasociety.net/points/what-...
Text on an orange background with the title of the Points post,What Happens When People Turn to Chatbots for Therapy? by Briana Vecchione. It includes a quote from the brief: "Chatbots are reshaping not only how people seek help, but how they define it."
August 6, 2025 at 1:44 PM
bcaramiaux.bsky.social
📣 Tomorrow! Join us for the next AI & Society Salon – June 11 at 5 PM CET.

Marco Donnarumma brings performance art and movement research into strange encounters with sound, light, robotics and AI.

🗓️ June 11, 17h00 CET
➡️ Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

#CultureAndTech #AI #ArtAndTech
June 10, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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♦️ Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 11 June 17:00 CET for a Salon with Marco Donnarumma, performance artist and researcher.

We will discuss human body, tech and power.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...
June 4, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Why we cannot separate Art from the Artist?
in @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/ai-doesnt-pa...
AI Doesn’t Paint: Why We Cannot Separate Art from the Artist | TechPolicy.Press
Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.
www.techpolicy.press
June 4, 2025 at 9:02 AM
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Sure, duolingo showed us just how well we can speak a foreign language using it.
fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...
Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’
Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.
fortune.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:55 PM
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Large survey conducted by Bookbub on how authors view generative AI. It shows that authors are divided on its use and the importance of ethical concerns among authors who don't use it. insights.bookbub.com/how-authors-...

#AI #GenAI #Writing #CreativeIndustry
How Authors are Thinking About AI (Survey of 1,200+ Authors)
We surveyed more than 1,200 authors to learn how they're thinking about generative AI as it relates to their work. Here's what they had to say.
insights.bookbub.com
May 20, 2025 at 6:43 AM
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📢 Excited to share our #CHI2025 paper "Generative AI in Documentary Photography: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Storytelling" by Lenny Martinez, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and myself.

➡️ Pre-print: hal.science/hal-04982451...
April 24, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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AI Toolbox for Performing Arts, by Daniel Bisig: https://
gitlab.zhdk.ch/dbisig/aitoolbox
#AI #PerformingArts #Creativity
bisig daniel - dbisig / AIToolbox · GitLab
Quellcode- und Projektverwaltung mit GitLab | Source code and project management using GitLab
gitlab.zhdk.ch
March 25, 2025 at 2:39 PM
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Happening today!
bcaramiaux.bsky.social Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 27
🚨 Event Update: New Date! 🚨
Our online Salon, a dialogue with @carolinesinders.bsky.social on #AI & #Society, has been postponed and will now take place on March 5, 6pm CET.

Info, registration, Zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/
March 5, 2025 at 2:27 PM
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🚨 Event Update: New Date! 🚨
Our online Salon, a dialogue with @carolinesinders.bsky.social on #AI & #Society, has been postponed and will now take place on March 5, 6pm CET.

Info, registration, Zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/
February 27, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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📢 This is happening tomorrow! Zoom link via registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...
#AI #Art #Society
bcaramiaux.bsky.social Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 11
Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 18 February 18:00pm CET for a Salon with @carolinesinders.bsky.social, artist and researcher.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...
Flyer of the salon "regaining power over AI", 4th episode with Carolien Sinders
February 17, 2025 at 8:42 AM
Reposted by Baptiste Caramiaux
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My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.
An image of Aaron Swartz with the following text: "Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TB of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.
February 11, 2025 at 11:45 PM
Reposted by Baptiste Caramiaux
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The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.
February 11, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 18 February 18:00pm CET for a Salon with @carolinesinders.bsky.social, artist and researcher.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...
Flyer of the salon "regaining power over AI", 4th episode with Carolien Sinders
February 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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As #AI gains a growing space in creation and art, how are the public discourses on AI in the arts shaping creative work?

It what we investigate in a new paper with @katecrawford.bsky.social , @qveraliao.bsky.social, Gonzalo Ramos and Jenny Williams : arxiv.org/abs/2502.03940
February 7, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Reposted by Baptiste Caramiaux
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It’s no coincidence that massive assaults on human rights are happening at the same time as assertions about protecting machine rights.
AI systems could be ‘caused to suffer’ if consciousness achieved, says research
Experts and thinkers signed open letter expressing concern over irresponsible development of technology
www.theguardian.com
February 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
bcaramiaux.bsky.social
Happy to find out this morning that that our #CHI2025 paper made it! ✨

The paper is about Generative AI in Documentary Photography.

And it is the first paper of my PhD Student Lenny Martinez, co-supervised with Sarah Fdili Alaoui.
January 17, 2025 at 6:53 AM
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If you're looking for a documentary about music, this is it: "Sisters with Transistors - Electronic music's unsung heroines"
sisterswithtransistors.com
#electronicmusic #music #documentary
sisters with transistors
Cargo
sisterswithtransistors.com
January 16, 2025 at 7:22 PM
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Free our Feeds : an initiative to save social media from billionaire capture. The idea is to use bluesky's AT protocol to build an ecosystem of apps (bluesky being one, but opened to other innovations): freeourfeeds.com
Taylor Lorenz's article about it: www.usermag.co/p/freeourfee... #Socialmedia
Free Our Feeds
Let's take social media away from billionaire capture.
freeourfeeds.com
January 13, 2025 at 4:03 PM
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Found this interesting quote while re-reading 'Beware of fictional AI narratives' by Isabella Hermann : "All these anthropomorphized artificial beings [Ava, Joi, David] are a projection canvas for human issues, not robot issues"

www.nature.com/articles/s42...
Beware of fictional AI narratives - Nature Machine Intelligence
Nature Machine Intelligence - Beware of fictional AI narratives
www.nature.com
January 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Good start for 2025: Meta ends fact-checking, concedes that there will be more bad stuff on its platforms and adds a chief executive of ultimate fighting championship to its board
www.nytimes.com/live/2025/01...
Meta to End Fact-Checking Program on Facebook Ahead of Trump Term: Live Updates
The social networking giant will stop using third-party fact checkers on Facebook, Threads and Instagram and instead rely on users to add notes to posts. It is likely to please President-elect Trump a...
www.nytimes.com
January 7, 2025 at 3:16 PM
Reposted by Baptiste Caramiaux
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It's time for another exciting round of "CEO said a thing!" journalism, where a tech CEO says a thing, then the press trips over itself to repeat that thing largely devoid of critical thinking or historical context
'Superintelligence' is the next big thing for OpenAI: Sam Altman
ChatGPT maker OpenAI's CEO, Sam Altman, in a recent blog post, wrote about the company's ambition to develop superintelligence. He discussed how scientific discovery and innovation could accelerate “w...
economictimes.indiatimes.com
January 6, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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The TOCHI special issue is out! It examines the rich and intricate histories of uncertainty in design—its philosophical implications, its critical role in prototyping, and its growing significance in more agentive systems intertwined with other beings. Check it out: dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
#HCI
Prototyping with Uncertainties: Data, Algorithms, and Research through Design | ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction
Seen both as a resource and an obstacle to clarity, uncertainty is a concept that permeates many areas of design. As the concept gains prominence in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), this special issu...
dl.acm.org
December 18, 2024 at 6:25 PM
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A striking example of AI narratives in art
charliekirchoff.com Charlie Kirchoff @charliekirchoff.com · Dec 16
This is the perfect analogy.
If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds.
If you want more people to make art, you don’t give them image generators.
This doesn’t “democratize” anything
I sat with Ted Chiang for lunch at NeurIPS yesterday, and someone working in AI brought up democratizing art-making. It was a candid chat and I know the guy didn't mean much by it—so I was like, hey, can I just say something?—I really hate the word "democratize" being used this way. Just say "automating art-making". It’s more accurate. Ted put it better than me and asked, "Do you say we should democratize marathon running? Why not? If you want more people to run, you don’t give them mopeds." We had an interesting conversation about the impact of word choice and then went to his afternoon talk, which was a full house!
December 17, 2024 at 12:57 PM