pumbim
@mapachette.bsky.social
Digital visual culture+digital humanities grad student. Critical AI theory. Contemporary drawing.
I'm lurking, don't mind me.
I'm lurking, don't mind me.
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I hate these fucking ChatGPT commercials that show it helping folks like planning a date that seems "chill," or how to become a "morning person," all things that should've been learned from a community not a goddamned spicy autocorrect.
Fuck all that noise.
Fuck all that noise.
December 9, 2025 at 10:28 AM
I hate these fucking ChatGPT commercials that show it helping folks like planning a date that seems "chill," or how to become a "morning person," all things that should've been learned from a community not a goddamned spicy autocorrect.
Fuck all that noise.
Fuck all that noise.
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You guys, this is what we meant
September 18, 2025 at 1:33 PM
You guys, this is what we meant
top 1 2025 fears: starting a substack that just sucks.
but im working on my rejection sensitivity so i guess i will anyway. :)
but im working on my rejection sensitivity so i guess i will anyway. :)
September 18, 2025 at 2:06 PM
top 1 2025 fears: starting a substack that just sucks.
but im working on my rejection sensitivity so i guess i will anyway. :)
but im working on my rejection sensitivity so i guess i will anyway. :)
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tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
August 31, 2025 at 4:05 PM
tiktok taking down their live feature in indonesia while the protests are happening shows they understand the ability that app had to show people what was really happening in gaza and they intend not to let it happen again
Quiero volver a ese momento de esa red social difunta pa gwn poner citas de la lispector tol día tol día
August 31, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Quiero volver a ese momento de esa red social difunta pa gwn poner citas de la lispector tol día tol día
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people call me up and ask me if we should do the panopticon and I say no no, let’s not do the panopticon and it’s a nice conversation
August 8, 2025 at 7:48 PM
people call me up and ask me if we should do the panopticon and I say no no, let’s not do the panopticon and it’s a nice conversation
Came back to bsky to see yall debunking 4ltm4ns little toy... again. I love this❤️
August 8, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Came back to bsky to see yall debunking 4ltm4ns little toy... again. I love this❤️
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ChatGPT is still a bullshit machine
ChatGPT Is Still a Bullshit Machine
CEO Sam Altman says it's like having a superpower, but GPT-5 struggles with basic questions.
gizmodo.com
August 8, 2025 at 5:12 PM
ChatGPT is still a bullshit machine
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500 billion dollars and the robot can't even count to twelve
August 8, 2025 at 4:51 PM
500 billion dollars and the robot can't even count to twelve
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Things I said re: genAI (and AGI "race") uncritical hype: “It’s a misrepresentation that is dangerous and dishonest, like the Wizard of Oz with the men behind the curtains.” www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/artic...
What does AI know about a ‘glow-up’?
Growing numbers of people are turning to ChatGPT for advice on how to get hotter – but these AI beauty recommendations are reflecting the rot that has always existed within the industry
www.dazeddigital.com
August 8, 2025 at 7:37 PM
Things I said re: genAI (and AGI "race") uncritical hype: “It’s a misrepresentation that is dangerous and dishonest, like the Wizard of Oz with the men behind the curtains.” www.dazeddigital.com/beauty/artic...
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All worried about how easy it is for GenAI to influence people because it's able to statistically sound like a conversational partner, meanwhile look at this rock YOU ARE HARD-WIRED TO THINK THIS ROCK IS ALIVE AND FEEL SORRY FOR THE SAD ROCK. POOR SAD ROCK.
July 16, 2025 at 12:10 AM
All worried about how easy it is for GenAI to influence people because it's able to statistically sound like a conversational partner, meanwhile look at this rock YOU ARE HARD-WIRED TO THINK THIS ROCK IS ALIVE AND FEEL SORRY FOR THE SAD ROCK. POOR SAD ROCK.
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The biological transhumanism and digital eugenics promoted by some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley amounts to pro-extinctionism, @xriskology.bsky.social writes. www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
July 14, 2025 at 6:32 PM
The biological transhumanism and digital eugenics promoted by some of the most powerful people in Silicon Valley amounts to pro-extinctionism, @xriskology.bsky.social writes. www.techpolicy.press/digital-euge...
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When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants.
Translation services are now common on phones, but another language barrier is being broken with Google Meet’s new real-time tools, revealed at #GoogleIO.
May 21, 2025 at 1:06 PM
When I see this, I wonder what happens when it gets the translation wrong — potentially in an offensive way — and the speaker doesn’t know, but also how it will get people to change their speech patterns to be legible to the automated system, as we know people already do with voice assistants.
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What if LLM hallucinations are an inherent feature of their training material, cultural texts? Joe Dumit, @ucdavis.bsky.social and I scratch the surface in letter to editor @nature.com, www.nature.com/articles/d41..., @tedunderwood.me
March 12, 2025 at 7:22 AM
What if LLM hallucinations are an inherent feature of their training material, cultural texts? Joe Dumit, @ucdavis.bsky.social and I scratch the surface in letter to editor @nature.com, www.nature.com/articles/d41..., @tedunderwood.me
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I believe that generative AI may be the biggest dunce mask-off moment ever. These things do not make sense! How does using AI for coding lead to AGI? How does *generative AI* lead to AGI? Hell why don't we start simple: what is AGI in this context?
March 1, 2025 at 2:18 PM
I believe that generative AI may be the biggest dunce mask-off moment ever. These things do not make sense! How does using AI for coding lead to AGI? How does *generative AI* lead to AGI? Hell why don't we start simple: what is AGI in this context?
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Hier eine erste Analyse der Situation.
February 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hier eine erste Analyse der Situation.
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Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism
“Platform Realism”. AI Image Synthesis and the Rise of Generic Visu...
In May 2023, artist Bjoern Karmann introduced a gadget called Paragraphica, a lensless “camera” based on AI text-to-image synthesis (fig. 1). For Karmann, Paragraphica gives us a glimpse into how g...
journals.openedition.org
February 26, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Finally online: My essay on #PlatformRealism for #Transbordeur. There couldn't be a more appropriate day to publish it, even though when I wrote it last year I couldn't have imagined the extent to which the aesthetics of AI slop would become the basis of a new #MemeFascism
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GenAI is digital plastic. All of our regret now at filling the ocean with plastics, and our bodies with microplastics, we are now doing by flooding our media and education with genAI plastic.
February 22, 2025 at 4:58 PM
GenAI is digital plastic. All of our regret now at filling the ocean with plastics, and our bodies with microplastics, we are now doing by flooding our media and education with genAI plastic.
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"Right now, our unregulated environment means that AI is being sold as an appropriate tool for automating teachers ... and a host of other connective jobs. When we are inventing a new hammer, we need to remind ourselves that not everything is a nail." hbr.org/2025/02/im-a...
“I’m Afraid We Are Automating This Work Without Really Understanding It”
AI is often touted as a way to handle busy work to free people up for tasks that matter. But in the race to add automation to pretty much every job, it’s rare that people question what, exactly, peopl...
hbr.org
February 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
"Right now, our unregulated environment means that AI is being sold as an appropriate tool for automating teachers ... and a host of other connective jobs. When we are inventing a new hammer, we need to remind ourselves that not everything is a nail." hbr.org/2025/02/im-a...
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Mel Bochner, a grad school mentor, exposed the cracks between words and reality in ways that offer a lesson for AI. His 1970 dictum "Language Is Not Transparent" feels prophetic now that we use black boxes to churn out news, legal documents, and medical advice blog.still-water.net/mel-bochner-...
February 17, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Mel Bochner, a grad school mentor, exposed the cracks between words and reality in ways that offer a lesson for AI. His 1970 dictum "Language Is Not Transparent" feels prophetic now that we use black boxes to churn out news, legal documents, and medical advice blog.still-water.net/mel-bochner-...
when the world needed him the most he vanished (my seam ripper)
February 12, 2025 at 5:33 PM
when the world needed him the most he vanished (my seam ripper)
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