Maha Bali, PhD
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Maha Bali, PhD
@mahabali.bsky.social
Equity/care. Open connected educator. @bali_maha 🐦. Mahabali@mastodon.social
Blog: https://blog.mahabali.me Dismantle injustice 🇵🇸 #EduSky #highered
Professor of Practice, American Univ in Cairo
2/2 it's also like... analogous to training the AI in your voice and video and worrying about what it might do with it and distort it into something else given all it's been trained on before? I have some thought experiments on this!
September 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Yes... and also, there is a risk people on the margins have of whether training larger models on their data risks them losing rhetorical and data sovereignty (particularly important for Indigenous groups, but also, e.g., for me, sacred holy texts?). 1/2
September 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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I HATE when people compare AI to the printing press, it's so disingenuous. The printing press was opposed by the elites because it put power in the hands of everyday people, and popularized a vernacular. AI does the opposite, by allowing elites to bypass artists and laborers.
September 9, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Oh I don't know what story I shared inspired this? Or I forgot? Tell me haha
August 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Nooooooooo 🙈🙈🙈
July 27, 2025 at 3:06 PM
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July 12, 2025 at 9:18 PM
I think you were reading the museum stuff more closely than I was. I never liked physics in school or uni (had to take 5 courses! Got A's, understood nothing!) but still enjoyed CERN very much and more so because you were there!!!
July 27, 2025 at 3:05 PM