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New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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Computer-vision research powers surveillance technology - Nature
An analysis of research papers and citing patents indicates the extensive ties between computer-vision research and surveillance.
www.nature.com
June 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
New paper hot off the press www.nature.com/articles/s41...
We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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We analysed over 40,000 computer vision papers from CVPR (the longest standing CV conf) & associated patents tracing pathways from research to application. We found that 90% of papers & 86% of downstream patents power surveillance
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"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
The Copilot Delusion
Disclaimer: This post was written May 2025, and the arguments apply to AI code capabilities at this time. The arguments around lack of competence are certainly likely to become less prevalent-while th...
deplet.ing
June 24, 2025 at 7:57 PM
"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...
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Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
www.nature.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Now out in Nature: we analyzed 19,000 computer vision papers and the 20,000+ patents citing them and found that most CV papers are used in surveillance enabling CV patents. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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These guys are so stupid I’m sorry. this is the language of an imbecile. “Yeah our artificial intelligence isn’t actually intelligent unless we create a new standard to call it intelligent. It isn’t even stupid, it has no intellect. Anyway what if it didn’t?”
www.businessinsider.com/aji-artifici...
www.businessinsider.com/aji-artifici...
June 8, 2025 at 6:25 AM
These guys are so stupid I’m sorry. this is the language of an imbecile. “Yeah our artificial intelligence isn’t actually intelligent unless we create a new standard to call it intelligent. It isn’t even stupid, it has no intellect. Anyway what if it didn’t?”
www.businessinsider.com/aji-artifici...
www.businessinsider.com/aji-artifici...
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"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
April 28, 2025 at 11:50 AM
"A new dataset, visualized as maps, reveals the extent to which African workers are indirectly employed in the tech sector, doing content moderation, customer service, and data annotation for AI models, among other jobs." restofworld.org/2025/big-tec...
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New from 404 Media: that "college protester" you see online isn't real. Instead it's an AI-powered undercover bot for cops.
We've obtained documents showing how 'Massive Blue' is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to protesters. Examples:
www.404media.co/this-college...
We've obtained documents showing how 'Massive Blue' is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to protesters. Examples:
www.404media.co/this-college...
April 17, 2025 at 12:44 PM
New from 404 Media: that "college protester" you see online isn't real. Instead it's an AI-powered undercover bot for cops.
We've obtained documents showing how 'Massive Blue' is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to protesters. Examples:
www.404media.co/this-college...
We've obtained documents showing how 'Massive Blue' is helping cops deploy AI-powered social media bots to talk to protesters. Examples:
www.404media.co/this-college...
sometimes i forget im a TO and i actually have to do TO things
at least its a new venue this time
at least its a new venue this time
April 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
sometimes i forget im a TO and i actually have to do TO things
at least its a new venue this time
at least its a new venue this time
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Newsletter: OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry, requiring more money than exists every year, threatening the financial health of SoftBank, Oracle and NVIDIA, their future dependent on impossible debt and unproven startups to build their data centers.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry
Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up and...
www.wheresyoured.at
April 14, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Newsletter: OpenAI is a systemic risk to the tech industry, requiring more money than exists every year, threatening the financial health of SoftBank, Oracle and NVIDIA, their future dependent on impossible debt and unproven startups to build their data centers.
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
www.wheresyoured.at/openai-is-a-...
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“I’m not particularly interested in assisting the process of flattening myself into an array of data points, to serve the interests of tech companies by making myself even more machine-readable. I’m not convinced that the best way to understand oneself is through quantification.“
We have more data on ourselves than ever before. But can we really track our way into happiness? | Samantha Floreani
Self-tracking is regularly promoted as a way toward self-improvement. But life is not a mathematical problem waiting to be solved
www.theguardian.com
April 7, 2025 at 12:27 AM
“I’m not particularly interested in assisting the process of flattening myself into an array of data points, to serve the interests of tech companies by making myself even more machine-readable. I’m not convinced that the best way to understand oneself is through quantification.“
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I read so many stories like this every day, we live in a completely insane time in tech history. Generative AI is the thing that has revealed how many useless managers are in charge
My company forced us to use GitHub Copilot as some kind of efficiency measure. I spent a good three hours today trying to tweak a couple lines of code while it gave me confidently wrong suggestions on what to do. I finally gave up and found what I was looking for on my first Stack Overflow hit.
April 5, 2025 at 3:59 AM
I read so many stories like this every day, we live in a completely insane time in tech history. Generative AI is the thing that has revealed how many useless managers are in charge
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Been sent this a few times and I've got to say it is the dumbest shit I've ever read. Empty headed fan fiction written with conviction that should force the writers into concussion protocol
ai-2027.com
ai-2027.com
April 4, 2025 at 2:44 PM
Been sent this a few times and I've got to say it is the dumbest shit I've ever read. Empty headed fan fiction written with conviction that should force the writers into concussion protocol
ai-2027.com
ai-2027.com
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If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If you want to know more about the AI side of style transfer and how it aligns with capitalist extraction in the creative industry, take a look at our #chi2025 paper:
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
arxiv.org/abs/2409.17410
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If this week has taught us anything, is that styles are never "just" styles.
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
If this week has taught us anything, is that styles are never "just" styles.
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
They are at the core of our cultural, political and economic lives and how we think about, and do things with them has a tremendous impact on our lives.
(A real Miyazaki sketch to cleanse your feed.)
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But styles are not natural resources, they are the product of human labor.
As illustrator Roman Muradov put it "The generated result may resemble something real, but it bypasses the labor, and says nothing, adds nothing. The process is the thing"
substack.com/@bluebed/not...
As illustrator Roman Muradov put it "The generated result may resemble something real, but it bypasses the labor, and says nothing, adds nothing. The process is the thing"
substack.com/@bluebed/not...
Roman Muradov on Substack
Style is not aesthetics. Style is substance. It grows out of thoughts, experiences, and labor. You can’t take work out of art—what you get is an empty shell. The generated result may resemble somethin...
substack.com
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
But styles are not natural resources, they are the product of human labor.
As illustrator Roman Muradov put it "The generated result may resemble something real, but it bypasses the labor, and says nothing, adds nothing. The process is the thing"
substack.com/@bluebed/not...
As illustrator Roman Muradov put it "The generated result may resemble something real, but it bypasses the labor, and says nothing, adds nothing. The process is the thing"
substack.com/@bluebed/not...
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But styles are also not surfaces to apply anywhere indiscriminately
What genAI models generate is not style, it's a superficial veil designed to benefit capitalist extraction of value from artists' labor
As styles become detached from artists, they become construed as natural resources up for grab
What genAI models generate is not style, it's a superficial veil designed to benefit capitalist extraction of value from artists' labor
As styles become detached from artists, they become construed as natural resources up for grab
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
But styles are also not surfaces to apply anywhere indiscriminately
What genAI models generate is not style, it's a superficial veil designed to benefit capitalist extraction of value from artists' labor
As styles become detached from artists, they become construed as natural resources up for grab
What genAI models generate is not style, it's a superficial veil designed to benefit capitalist extraction of value from artists' labor
As styles become detached from artists, they become construed as natural resources up for grab
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“There is nothing that makes AI systems inherently good. Without intentional rectification and proper guardrails, AI often leads to surveillance, manipulation, inequity and erosion of fundamental rights and human agency while concentrating power, wealth and influence in the hands of AI developers..”
I was in Paris last week for the #AIActionSummit & was honoured to participate in the “AI in public interest” panel.
👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/
👇🏾 my thoughts & reflections on what AI in public interest is/isn’t & some concrete steps/initiatives for `bending the arc of AI towards the public interest' aial.ie/pages/aiparis/
Bending the arc of AI towards the public interest
By Abeba Birhane, 18/02/2025
Following the first in Bletchley Park in 2023 and the second in Seoul in 2024, the third AI Action Summit took place in February 2025 in Paris. In the context of previous ...
aial.ie
March 23, 2025 at 11:58 PM
“There is nothing that makes AI systems inherently good. Without intentional rectification and proper guardrails, AI often leads to surveillance, manipulation, inequity and erosion of fundamental rights and human agency while concentrating power, wealth and influence in the hands of AI developers..”
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New work: Protecting Human Cognition in the Age of AI
- with Anjali Singh, Karan Taneja, and Klara Guan.
We claim that overreliance on GenAI models disrupt traditional learning pathways. We suggest best practices for better teaching, testing, and learning tools to restore these paths:
- with Anjali Singh, Karan Taneja, and Klara Guan.
We claim that overreliance on GenAI models disrupt traditional learning pathways. We suggest best practices for better teaching, testing, and learning tools to restore these paths:
February 23, 2025 at 12:20 PM
New work: Protecting Human Cognition in the Age of AI
- with Anjali Singh, Karan Taneja, and Klara Guan.
We claim that overreliance on GenAI models disrupt traditional learning pathways. We suggest best practices for better teaching, testing, and learning tools to restore these paths:
- with Anjali Singh, Karan Taneja, and Klara Guan.
We claim that overreliance on GenAI models disrupt traditional learning pathways. We suggest best practices for better teaching, testing, and learning tools to restore these paths:
hyperpop good www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbc...
lilbesh ramko - nichijou:loopmania (Music Video)
YouTube video by lilbesh ramko
www.youtube.com
March 10, 2025 at 2:52 AM
hyperpop good www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbc...
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apropos of resurgent discourses around "official languages" and whether all residents of a nation should have to speak them (and what that discourse is actually a proxy for: spoiler, it's about race, not language) -- this paper by Adrian Blackledge from 2009 is great: doi.org/10.1080/1543...
“As a Country We Do Expect”: The Further Extension of Language Testing Regimes in the United Kingdom
In recent times debates about language and languages have increasingly become the battleground on which debates about immigration to the United Kingdom (U.K.) are fought. Since 2002 a series of leg...
doi.org
March 5, 2025 at 10:37 AM
apropos of resurgent discourses around "official languages" and whether all residents of a nation should have to speak them (and what that discourse is actually a proxy for: spoiler, it's about race, not language) -- this paper by Adrian Blackledge from 2009 is great: doi.org/10.1080/1543...
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the tech stack musk is using is incidental. computer scientists who happen to be interested in LLMs will make careers out of the next 4 years chasing the idiosyncrasies of the implementations of these systems, condescendingly dismissing the study of the political movement animating all of this shit
February 25, 2025 at 12:22 AM
the tech stack musk is using is incidental. computer scientists who happen to be interested in LLMs will make careers out of the next 4 years chasing the idiosyncrasies of the implementations of these systems, condescendingly dismissing the study of the political movement animating all of this shit
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i'm not going to belabor the point, except to say that people doing challenging work - as in, work that challenges the hegemonic epistemology that tech companies salivate over - don't endear themselves to that tech $$$ (not independently, not in academia, not anywhere), and are especially struggling
February 25, 2025 at 9:55 PM
i'm not going to belabor the point, except to say that people doing challenging work - as in, work that challenges the hegemonic epistemology that tech companies salivate over - don't endear themselves to that tech $$$ (not independently, not in academia, not anywhere), and are especially struggling
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Destruction of critical thinking continues apace.
How AI is affecting the way kids learn to read and write
Teachers are increasingly relying on AI to boost their student's reading and writing skills.
www.usatoday.com
February 22, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Destruction of critical thinking continues apace.
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February 21, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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