Bob L. T. Sturm
@bobltsturm.bsky.social
Associate Professor of Computer Science at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. Specialist in AI/ML and music. PI of the MUSAiC ERC project https://musaiclab.wordpress.com/
The problem of "the problem of the blank page"?
November 19, 2025 at 2:29 PM
The problem of "the problem of the blank page"?
Me too. I was motivated by those bouts to organize this: www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/the-et...
The Ethics of AI in Music, Art and Everything Else: Does the World Need a Manifesto? | Digital Futures
Date and time: 4-6 November 2025Where: Digital Futures hub, Osquars Backe 5, floor 2 at KTH main campusDirections: https://www.digitalfutures.kth.se/contact/how-to-get-here/ Attendance is by invitatio...
www.digitalfutures.kth.se
October 22, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Me too. I was motivated by those bouts to organize this: www.digitalfutures.kth.se/event/the-et...
Well, it is creating extra work hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
AI-Generated “Workslop” Is Destroying Productivity
Despite a surge in generative AI use across workplaces, most companies are seeing little measurable ROI. One possible reason is because AI tools are being used to produce “workslop”—content that appea...
hbr.org
October 16, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Well, it is creating extra work hbr.org/2025/09/ai-g...
Hi Jan! Write to Filippo. I am sure he will find a way to help you.
September 9, 2025 at 5:08 AM
Hi Jan! Write to Filippo. I am sure he will find a way to help you.
@article{McNealis2025a,
author = {R. McNealis},
journal = {AI \& Society},
title = {{Shame in the machine: Affective accountability and the ethics of AI}},
year = {2025}}
author = {R. McNealis},
journal = {AI \& Society},
title = {{Shame in the machine: Affective accountability and the ethics of AI}},
year = {2025}}
September 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
@article{McNealis2025a,
author = {R. McNealis},
journal = {AI \& Society},
title = {{Shame in the machine: Affective accountability and the ethics of AI}},
year = {2025}}
author = {R. McNealis},
journal = {AI \& Society},
title = {{Shame in the machine: Affective accountability and the ethics of AI}},
year = {2025}}
Sturm, B. L. (2014). A simple method to determine if a music information retrieval system is a “horse”. IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 16(6):1636–1644.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Sturm, B. L. (2014). A simple method to determine if a music information retrieval system is a “horse”. IEEE Trans. Multimedia, 16(6):1636–1644.
Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., and Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Info. Tech., 26(38).
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Hicks, M. T., Humphries, J., and Slater, J. (2024). ChatGPT is bullshit. Ethics and Info. Tech., 26(38).
References:
Bender, E. M. and Hanna, A. (2025). The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. HarperCollins.
Bender, E. M. and Hanna, A. (2025). The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. HarperCollins.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
References:
Bender, E. M. and Hanna, A. (2025). The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. HarperCollins.
Bender, E. M. and Hanna, A. (2025). The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want. HarperCollins.
But hey, now we can generate videos of bunny rabbits jumping on a trampoline at 2 AM caught by a surveillance camera.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
But hey, now we can generate videos of bunny rabbits jumping on a trampoline at 2 AM caught by a surveillance camera.
There are too many people deluded that working with these chatbots provides them an advantage over others even though in reality they are just consulting a fancily dressed moral-void truth-ignorant and sycophantic-tuned autocomplete.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
There are too many people deluded that working with these chatbots provides them an advantage over others even though in reality they are just consulting a fancily dressed moral-void truth-ignorant and sycophantic-tuned autocomplete.
We have left one pandemic only to willingly walk into another, but there is no vaccine this time. There are too many opportunists, too many profiteers, too many cons.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We have left one pandemic only to willingly walk into another, but there is no vaccine this time. There are too many opportunists, too many profiteers, too many cons.
among many other things, sexual violence against children, and are given no professional support when they suffer a mental break down from the work and cannot continue—thus taking their trauma back home without any tools to heal.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
among many other things, sexual violence against children, and are given no professional support when they suffer a mental break down from the work and cannot continue—thus taking their trauma back home without any tools to heal.
And to fine tune these horses such that they don't spew out horrific psychologically traumatizing garbage (which is in their training data), people in the third world are paid pennies to listen to and penalize a horse describing, ...
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
And to fine tune these horses such that they don't spew out horrific psychologically traumatizing garbage (which is in their training data), people in the third world are paid pennies to listen to and penalize a horse describing, ...
Some cities around the world are clamoring to build massive data centers to build bigger and more powerful horses (they can't be anything else but horses), diverting water, electricity and clean air away from human communities.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Some cities around the world are clamoring to build massive data centers to build bigger and more powerful horses (they can't be anything else but horses), diverting water, electricity and clean air away from human communities.
Phony Stark is advertising his horse as the most racist, and so the U.S. Department of Defense is paying $200 million to use it.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Phony Stark is advertising his horse as the most racist, and so the U.S. Department of Defense is paying $200 million to use it.
We are watching a horse correctly answering math questions (Sturm 2014) and then seeing powerful people proposing that that horse should be made available to everyone to perform tasks of all kinds.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
We are watching a horse correctly answering math questions (Sturm 2014) and then seeing powerful people proposing that that horse should be made available to everyone to perform tasks of all kinds.
to failed legal proceedings due to faked citations, to cheating in education (both students and teachers), to the lack of critical pushback against antisocial and suicidal behaviors (Bender and Hanna 2025).
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
to failed legal proceedings due to faked citations, to cheating in education (both students and teachers), to the lack of critical pushback against antisocial and suicidal behaviors (Bender and Hanna 2025).
They just know that one symbol often appears in the presence of some other symbols in a particular order. Cautionary tales of the uncritical use of these chatbots are becoming more numerous every day, from people poisoning themselves, to ruined holiday plans, ...
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
They just know that one symbol often appears in the presence of some other symbols in a particular order. Cautionary tales of the uncritical use of these chatbots are becoming more numerous every day, from people poisoning themselves, to ruined holiday plans, ...
These chatbots are _not_ trained to output truth, and they are _not_ trained to reason. They are trained only to generate text that is computed to be highly probable, which only sometimes overlaps with truth. These chatbots do _not_ know the meanings of the symbols they traffic in.
August 24, 2025 at 10:00 AM
These chatbots are _not_ trained to output truth, and they are _not_ trained to reason. They are trained only to generate text that is computed to be highly probable, which only sometimes overlaps with truth. These chatbots do _not_ know the meanings of the symbols they traffic in.
It's getting better and better, e.g., elevenlabs.io
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elevenlabs.io
August 20, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It's getting better and better, e.g., elevenlabs.io
I didn't say property rights should be done away with.
August 13, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I didn't say property rights should be done away with.
Since I'm just an academic too, I don't know. Might universal basic income go some ways to solving many of these thorny problems around IP?
August 13, 2025 at 12:48 PM
Since I'm just an academic too, I don't know. Might universal basic income go some ways to solving many of these thorny problems around IP?
What would specific uses be? I could see regulations about using mug shots to infer "criminality". But what could it be for music?
August 13, 2025 at 11:48 AM
What would specific uses be? I could see regulations about using mug shots to infer "criminality". But what could it be for music?
What do you think of this? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It made me rethink my position on this issue.
The AI-Copyright Trap
As AI tools proliferate, policy makers are increasingly being called upon to protect creators and the cultural industries from the extractive, exploitative, and
papers.ssrn.com
August 13, 2025 at 8:08 AM
What do you think of this? papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.... It made me rethink my position on this issue.