Sarah Ciston
@sarahciston.com
🌈 coding care | 🤖 intersectional ai | 🌀 making datasets and labyrinths
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Working people of this country do not deserve to have their lives put into a digital dragnet to become playthings of the oligarchs.
Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies.
#sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...
Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies.
#sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...
June 2, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Working people of this country do not deserve to have their lives put into a digital dragnet to become playthings of the oligarchs.
Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies.
#sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...
Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies.
#sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...
Lucky and happy to be a research fellow at CAIS, where I get to look at the disturbing content that trains language models 🚯♻️📥 garbage in 🚯♻️📤 garbage out—and try to map more intersectional directions for machine learning 🏳️🌈🔓📖🤖✨
Meet the #CAISfellows: Dr. Sarah Ciston
🔍Her Research at CAIS: “Unsupervised Pleasures: Conscientious Datasets for Queer Futures”
🗓️Join her Talk: June 4 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #MachineLearning
🔍Her Research at CAIS: “Unsupervised Pleasures: Conscientious Datasets for Queer Futures”
🗓️Join her Talk: June 4 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht...
#AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #MachineLearning
June 3, 2025 at 11:32 AM
Lucky and happy to be a research fellow at CAIS, where I get to look at the disturbing content that trains language models 🚯♻️📥 garbage in 🚯♻️📤 garbage out—and try to map more intersectional directions for machine learning 🏳️🌈🔓📖🤖✨
Countdown to Spring 2026 release party begins now 🥰
Team ELIZA just delivered our finished manuscript to MIT Press!!
Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, me, Peter Millican, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, foreword by Janet Murray
@pweil.bsky.social @noahspringer.com
@mitpress.bsky.social
Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, me, Peter Millican, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, foreword by Janet Murray
@pweil.bsky.social @noahspringer.com
@mitpress.bsky.social
May 19, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Countdown to Spring 2026 release party begins now 🥰
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"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
March 13, 2025 at 6:54 AM
"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."
Sounds promising.
www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...
Open-source lets us see how predictive systems encode biased, categorical logics. While better than closed systems, open-source alone does not address the issues with the logics themselves #predictivepolicing #criticalai
Check out:
Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software
by @SarahCiston.com, Zach Mann, Jeremy Douglass & Me
in @dhquarterly.bsky.social
#antiracist #critcode #machinelearning #artificialintelligence
Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software
by @SarahCiston.com, Zach Mann, Jeremy Douglass & Me
in @dhquarterly.bsky.social
#antiracist #critcode #machinelearning #artificialintelligence
DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach
to Contemporary AI Policing Software
www.digitalhumanities.org
February 24, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Open-source lets us see how predictive systems encode biased, categorical logics. While better than closed systems, open-source alone does not address the issues with the logics themselves #predictivepolicing #criticalai
Replicative AI is a more apt description of “generative AI.” The language matters.
What if we used the term Replicative AI instead of Generative AI?
The most frequent question I received after my talk yesterday was about the word "ectype," which I used to describe the output of Suno and Udio. Ectype (as opposed to archetype) means "copy but not copy" and can be new and unique but not original.
Please refer to the following:
Please refer to the following:
February 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Replicative AI is a more apt description of “generative AI.” The language matters.
Stored datasets are "target banks" are people who are killed. And the "AI services" are built on the very same tools we toy with on our phones.
Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft
Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a join...
www.972mag.com
January 23, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Stored datasets are "target banks" are people who are killed. And the "AI services" are built on the very same tools we toy with on our phones.
On bad faith arguments and "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now":
January 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
On bad faith arguments and "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now":
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NEW EPISODE! We talk to the artist/coder/critical AI scholar Sarah Ciston about their badass chatbot Ladymouth, which responds to trolls and incels on hate forums. Watch/listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts!
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Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston
YouTube video by The Good Robot
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January 8, 2025 at 9:48 AM
NEW EPISODE! We talk to the artist/coder/critical AI scholar Sarah Ciston about their badass chatbot Ladymouth, which responds to trolls and incels on hate forums. Watch/listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts!
youtu.be/-EnzPpjmeGk?...
youtu.be/-EnzPpjmeGk?...