Ashley Shin
hashleys.bsky.social
Ashley Shin
@hashleys.bsky.social
NLP PhD student @ UCSD | NSF CS grad fellow
recommender systems, retrieval, ML 맛집


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December 12, 2024 at 3:42 AM
Reposted by Ashley Shin
Using LLM-based products in warfare is now codified in OpenAI’s business model.
Very little that OpenAI says seems to hold true for long.

www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/04/1...
December 5, 2024 at 3:41 AM
".. a Zeno's paradox where the trend in low-resourced NLP is like chasing a constantly moving goalpost instead of building useful tech .. concentration of power and resources reinforces colonial structures .. [put] decision-making power in the hands of the community and by shuffling resources .. "
I hope I am not late to the party (was away post-quals chilling) but here are some thoughts on why this is bad IMO:

First, a disclaimer that I am writing this as an African who is a speaker of multiple African languages, NLP researcher of African languages, and HCI researcher focusing broadly on..
this is a green flag for openai & meta to formally be arbitrators of our languages & mass exploit the population (& researcher that've poured their souls into low resource languages),all to throw unreliable AI that has so far proven to result in more harm than benefit
www.reuters.com/technology/a...
December 3, 2024 at 3:13 AM
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Just finished my latest project:

On my mind recently is the disturbing number of anti-trans bills currently circulating through the various US legislatures - so many that it's hard to keep track.

So I spent *way* too long making a song that sums each of them up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZ4x...
WHEREAS: Personhood is contingent; THEREFORE: Redaction of being.
YouTube video by softmax\'); DROP TABLE artists; --
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December 3, 2024 at 2:56 AM