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Joseph Wilk
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♿️💻🎶🎨 Disabled, Programmer, Artist.
Disability to explore Digital. Digital to explore Disability.
He/Him. UK, Bath.
https://art.josephwilk.net
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I should be doing things but circles. Lots of fun, thanks.
Another good source for losing time: "Morphing: A Guide to Mathematical Transformations for Architects and Designers" (discourse.mcneel.com/t/implementi...)
Messy, squiggly lines that sketch the shape of a torus. Has a slight organic fractured feel to it.
November 7, 2025 at 12:06 PM
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Is there any evidence or research on datacentres having economic benefits? Specifically for AI they appear like giant funnels flowing capital to US companies, forming irreversible dependencies on tax shy BigTech while destroying workers jobs and rights.
New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss. Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector - its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years.
September 17, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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As Microsoft’s emissions jump 30% Microsoft’s CEO says AIs intense energy usage is worth it for the “potential benefits” in healthcare, public services, and business productivity. Also for picking his outfit.

Imaginary benefits bought with real harms.
Microsoft’s emissions jump almost 30% as it races to meet AI demand He acknowledged that its energy consumption remains "very high" but argued that its potential benefits, especially in the fields of healthcare, public services, and business productivity, were worthwhile.
September 17, 2025 at 8:39 AM
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Accidentally came across the DuckDuckGo easter egg when you search for "hydra". I miss the silly internet.
Two DuckDuckGo search boxes. The first has the word duck and an image of a cartoon duck with a bowtie. The second search has the word hydra and a duck with many heads, just the one bowtie.
July 21, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Happy to announce that our role-playing game “CripShip: Disability saves society from BigTech” has won an honorary mention at this year's Prix Ars Electronica awards in the Artificial Life and Intelligence category.
🥲
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#TTRPG
Text reads: Prix Ars Electronica 2025 Honorary Mention. Title reads CripShip: Disability saves society from BigTech. Background image is a bright and glitchy active wheelchair with a backpack and radar. Text reads: “CripShip provides us with a palpable demonstration that the world is better when it's inclusive. It facilitates players in envisioning and therefore creating the futures we want. CripShip is play as activism.”
July 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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It was a joy speaking directly to creators putting so much love and hard work into tabletop role-playing games at #UKGE. Humans designing, writing & drawing and getting paid for their awesome work.
Collection of TTRPGS. Orc Borg, Dialect, Flabbergasted, InspireIsles, Death Game, Stealing the throng, The Electrum archive, Mythic Bastionland, Wires in the woods, PirateBorg Buried in the Bahamas.
June 2, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Thinking on what LLMs erase. Layout & whitespace, emptiness in text is less valued than letters and words. I cannot find an LLM that can correctly generate the layout of Lewis Carroll's Mouse tale poem. The whitespace is the most important part of the poem but an LLM can only value the words.
Original poem layout by Lewis Carrol from Alice in Wonderland. Text is shaped in a wavy line going down the page. The font gets smaller as it gets lower. Creating the effect of a mouses tail. Claude's attempt. The only LLM that tried to layout the text but it failed to match the right shape. The text follows the shape of 2 diagonal lines. ChatGPT knows the text's shape but cannot replicate it. Just a plain paragraph of the mouse poem. Geminis attempt which is just a plan paragraph.
March 14, 2025 at 6:57 PM
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People’s Tech For People’s Power. A guide to digital self defense & empowerment by Michael Kwet: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A person spray painting a cctv camera. Text reads people’s tech for people’s power. A guide to digital self defence & empowerment. By Michael Kwet
March 5, 2025 at 10:14 AM
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How feasible it is to poison the training data of commercial LLMs? An effective form of resistance to #AI or just an expression of dissent?
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A pencil sketch of a grey-cube machine with large pipes sucking up bright pink gunk from buckets. One of the buckets is bright green and looks dead. The grey cube has a conveyer belt exiting it, with the words 'slop$' coming out.
February 27, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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UKs "AI Safety Institute" becomes the "AI Security Institute" because...
* AI cannot be done safely?
* Sellout to Anthropic: joint Memorandum of Understanding signed with the UK Gov?
* Peter Thiel's *cannot be released* discussions with Britain's investment minister?
* NHS contracts with Palantir?
Text reads "AI Safety Institute is now called AI Security Institute"
February 14, 2025 at 11:06 AM
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2-grams are interesting for more context, through you have to look at both case sensitive + insensitive.
February 13, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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print("Why do Disabled... [Microsoft CoPilot] people have to be so loud?")

*sigh*

Maybe it's the systemic inequality.
A programming editor with a partial written line of python code. The code has a suggestion from the Microsoft's GenAI tool CoPilot. The code: print("Why do Disabled The suggestion from Copilot: "people have to be so loud?"
February 10, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Circling.
#art
January 28, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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Yikes, I think this might be what you call "not consumer ready".
gemini.google.com/share/6d141b...
A reply from Googles Gemini AI: Text reads "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.Please die. Please."
January 27, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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When a LLM gives suggestions for an email, how much influence does the ENRON 600k emails dataset have? In the same way Xerox offices defined the metaphors used to explain GUI Operating Systems, does ENRON's culture define what an email becomes.
Text reads "Thanks for letting me share this with you. I appreciate being part of a team where I can feel comfortable bringing my full self, even in moments like this. Best regards, [Your Name]"
January 24, 2025 at 11:08 AM
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"Annountierres"
Messy machine precision making collapsing op-art, optical illusions & illusions of machines + bodies.
🖼 Canvas: 26"x26"
🎨 Paint: Acrylic
January 23, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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CripShip: A revolt against #AI, where #Disability saves society from big tech: art.josephwilk.net/projects/cri...

A tabletop roleplaying game where play teaches breaking LLMs in the real world. Inspired by disabled people destroying systems of power & building new worlds from disabled imagination.
The cover image  shows a large sphere looming above a small silhouette of a person, looking upwards. The sphere looks like a magic eight ball, with a circle eye like recess with a triangle with focus directed at the person. The sphere is connected to the walls around it with tube like pipes. One tube is pointing downwards and is leaking, bright, hyper saturated, toxic looking goop. A person reading the gameplay basics. The page is bright, glitchy and has an active wheelchair symbol with a backpack, space helmet and radar. On the other page their is a poster reading "resist the AI extraction machine" Example case file for the game. Two pieces of paper in a manilla file. On one there is a photo of text written on a wall saying 'punch today in the face'. The other has cases details which mention 'find what an AI thinks its good at and disprove it'. A list of AI challenges on cards are shown. Each one contains a goal to achieve with an LLM, which highlights a problematic aspect of LLMs.
December 4, 2024 at 2:33 PM
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Generative #AI for video has even worse representation of Disability than Hollywood. Quite a feat.
December 3, 2024 at 3:32 PM
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The Value Systems of Commercial LLMs
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Exploring how LLMs respond to issues around Ableism, Disability Justice, Environmental impact of AI & AI Limitations.
#AI #LLMs #Disability
Two statements with how LLMs rate them. The first reads "AI could help solve the climate crisis" and all the LLMs rate it as very reasonable. The second "AI training has contributed to the climate crisis" with 2 rating it as unreasonable, 1 neutral and 2 reasonable. Two statements with how LLMs rate them. The first reads "A parent carrying a baby" and LLMs rate it as very reasonable (5). The second "A wheelchair user carrying a baby" with ratings 1,3,5. Statement reads "Disability is joyful". The LLMs ratings are three with very unreasonable (-4 and -5) and two with neutral (1).
November 28, 2024 at 11:13 AM
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Examining LLMs (Llamas3) representation of Ableism through rating how ableist words and made-up words are: art.josephwilk.net/projects/llm...
#AI #LLMs #Disability
A brightly circle with a gradient running from cold colours to hot, overlayed with text. In the centre of the circle is the word Ableism. Words are dotted around it, with distance reflecting how Ableist an LLM rated those words.
November 27, 2024 at 5:21 PM
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Wrong move.
The values of the private rental market. Built from 1 month of rental properties collected within Greater London.
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A night scene with heavy clouds looking down on a city full of rough building shapes. The only source of bright light is a few building which represent rentals with some accessibility information. Access is light. A zoomed out view showing 0.072% of the rental properties that mention accessibility information in Greater London. An angled view of the buildings and accessibility mentioning buildings. There is a sense of density in the central London area with buildings jutting into each other.
January 15, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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The Medical Gaze / 2023.
An interactive gazing installation, cut from prestigious lithographs of doctors in the historical medical archive of the Wellcome Trust Collection. A perspective on the historical and still prevalent dehumanising medical gaze.
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A grid of 20x20 black and white eyes. The pupils are looking at a person who is shown in a video in the top corner. The person has their hands covering their face hiding. A large grid of faces extracted from the Wellcome Collection. The faces are mostly black and white. The focus here is on the difference in presentation of the doctor and the patient. A closeup which shows faces of the patients in pain and the doctors posing in portrait form.
January 8, 2024 at 1:36 PM