Miki
mderdun.bsky.social
Miki
@mderdun.bsky.social
Likes: ML, Literature, Intertext, Networks, Magic, Esoteric Computation
Currently @ Cambridge Digital Humanities
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If people respected the humanities more they would recognize “making up a story to scare yourself” as something people do for entertainment and not an actual inevitable outcome
I genuinely wonder what this guy thinks ai is, but I'm too scared to even venture what it it might be
January 4, 2024 at 7:49 PM
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»Artificial Intelligence systems may be a black box, but the human decisions that go into building and deploying them are crystal clear. Deploying and automating an unaccountable machine is a management and design decision.«
With the discovery of child abuse imagery within AI’s training data, my new piece for Tech Policy Press suggests that policymakers aren’t listening to the right people about the risks of generative AI. #ai #policy
LAION-5B, Stable Diffusion, and the Original Sin of Generative AI | TechPolicy.Press
Artificial Intelligence systems start with data, and policy should too, says Eryk Salvaggio.
www.techpolicy.press
January 2, 2024 at 4:33 PM
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Google has ramped up its paternalistic behavior this year, controlling what extensions are allowed to do and whether someone uses an ad-blocker on YouTube, all while collecting even more user data for advertising.
Year In Review: Google’s Corporate Paternalism in The Browser
It’s a big year for the oozing creep of corporate paternalism and ad-tracking technology online. Google and its subsidiary companies have tightened their grips on the throat of internet innovation,
www.eff.org
January 1, 2024 at 1:25 PM
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POET RED ALERT 🚨🚨🚨

Researchers forced ChatGPT to reveal its training materials by asking it to repeat the word “poem” forever. (And then they did it again by asking it to repeat “book.”) www.404media.co/google-resea...
Google Researchers’ Attack Prompts ChatGPT to Reveal Its Training Data
ChatGPT is full of sensitive private information and spits out verbatim text from CNN, Goodreads, WordPress blogs, fandom wikis, Terms of Service agreements, Stack Overflow source code, Wikipedia page...
www.404media.co
December 4, 2023 at 8:06 PM
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So great to hear you’ve decided to take a stand against book censorship. Does this mean you’ll be dropping your lawsuit against libraries, too?
💥BANNED BOOKS NEWS 💥

Penguin Random House sues Iowa in an effort to halt censorship in America.

Learn more here: bit.ly/3uvWB3R

#BannedBooks #ReadBannedBooks
December 1, 2023 at 8:59 PM
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"In just a year, ChatGPT has permeated scientific research. Seven scientists reveal what they have learnt about how the chatbot should — and shouldn’t — be used."

Here's my part https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03798-6#Echobox=1701361552
December 1, 2023 at 7:15 AM
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In the midst of the openai drama, meta disbanded its Responsible AI team

https://www.theverge.com/2023/11/18/23966980/meta-disbanded-responsible-ai-team-artificial-intelligence
Meta disbanded its Responsible AI team
Members were moved to other AI projects.
www.theverge.com
November 21, 2023 at 10:25 AM
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Hate speech is rising!

Antisemitism soared more than 919% in the month since Oct 7

Anti-Muslim hate speech on X jumped 297% over the 5 days after Oct 7

On fringe platforms 4chan, Gab and BitChute, antisemitic and Islamophobic content rose ~500% after Oct 7 www.nytimes.com/2023/11/15/t...
Antisemitic and Anti-Muslim Hate Speech Surges Across the Internet
Fueled by the conflict between Israel and Gaza and stoked by extremists, hate speech has spiked on social media platforms such as X, Facebook and Instagram, researchers said.
www.nytimes.com
November 15, 2023 at 5:38 PM
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An Open Letter To My Friends Who Signed “Philosophy for Palestine”
Seyla Benhabib
medium.com
November 5, 2023 at 5:59 PM