I feel this. A lot. Like A LOT.

If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...

Home Depot is running a surveil Santa ad that also has Santa dropping off more surveillance gear for the family, in this world there is only surveillance

Slop Evader is a tool from artist and researcher Tega Brain that lets you search the web for results exclusively before November 30, 2022—the day that ChatGPT was released to the public.

If you are planning to attend the stsing conference in Bochum next March, may I point you to our case? We happily accept attendants and are looking for a fun, interdisciplinary crowd eager to discuss all things more-than-human, anthropocene and toolkits. Come and join us! stsing.org/before-ruins...

If you're looking for illustrations for "AI", don't use robots, glowing disembodied brains, or computer code in empty space. Here are a some alternative suggestions:

The relationship of eugenics and AI goes waaaay back. @timnitgebru.bsky.social did an execellent talk about this! www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7XT...

What hell feels like: Transcriping interviews and hearing your own, slowed down voice on repeat for hours. Have my spoken words any meaning? Can I not form at least one coherent sentence when talking to other people?

Most important lesson in the age of AI: "how do you develop the skills of discernment? This one is very very important: do not let the AI do the work for you before you have learned how to do it yourself. "

Große Empfehlung an alle, die sich eine Übersicht über digitale Technologien und deren komplexe und teilweise desaströse geopolitische, ökologische und kapitalistische entanglements im Anthropozän verschaffen möchten.

When STEM discovers sociology but instead of giving credit, sells this as new research. I see this happening a lot in STEM and it makes me furious.

Ever wondered what " your data is stored in the cloud" means? Contrary to real clouds, the digital cloud is based in massive noisy loud data centers and far less celestial - some would even describe living next to them as hell. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Content creation has become so cynical that homeless people are now pawns for allegedly "random acts of kindness". These content creators are very aware of their privacy but do not care for the privacy of a vulnerable and marginalized community.

I love stumbling on resources like that, because teaching is hard and inspiration is always welcome. I am especially drawn to the unit about the iconic "More Work for Mother" from Ruth Schwartz Cowan.

Like all AI companions before, this too an overhyped (and overprices) gadget which will probably land forgotten in a cupboard somewhere, not a companion with whom you'll form a longlasting relationship for years to come.

Ich freue mich: Am 4. November um 13.30 Uhr spreche ich an der HS Merseburg online über "Einmal Assistentin, immer Assistentin? Wie binäre Geschlechterperspetiven die Repräsentation von KI beeinflussen". Pssst: Es gibt lustige Gifs! Infos & Anmeldung hier: www.hs-merseburg.de/hochschule/p...

Starlink seems just another in a long line of Elon Musk projects which seemed to good to be true: 1-2 satellites are falling back to Earth each day which raises questions how this affects the delicate future of near Earth space. earthsky.org/human-world/...

Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia: doi.org/10.5281/zeno... We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity. 1/n

i looked at the methodology for this and it is a. sex addiction counseling group in texas did a surveymonkey and extrapolated the results to the entire us population which is the sort of research design that earns you an ff on an intro methods class (the extra f is for extra effort), and b. p-hacked

My paper on pioneering communitites, feminist speculation & Creative AI is available in the ACM library. This paper is part of my PhD and I am so happy that it got accepted & published (doing a PhD is hard as many of you probably know) and I hope it finds its audience 🤗 dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...

Damit Inklusion kein Fremdwort bleibt, müssen wir uns für den Erhalt einer emanzipatorischen, kritischen und diversen Forschungslandschaft einsetzen: weact.campact.de/petitions/di...

Consider also how few professional women feel they have any safe margin to allow for mistakes or mediocrity in their work (both risks of AI-generated output). Especially in male-dominated fields, women can’t afford to use a machine that shits the bed even 5% of the time

I did a thing and talked about my PhD research on pioneering communities and feminist speculations.

I'll be in Siegen next week for the Communities &Technologies conference to present my paper on Pioneering communities, feminist speculation and Creative AI. So, if you wanna discuss "doing speculation", Donna Haraway or just talk about making stuff, let me know!

This is fascinating: www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/s/I... Someone “worked on a book with ChatGPT” for weeks and then sought help on Reddit when they couldn’t download the file. Redditors helped them realized ChatGPT had just been roleplaying/lying and there was no file/book…

A user experience from hell is when your SIM card is deactivated because your phone is missing but your provider asks you to verify your identity by sending a text to your phone. Which you dont have. And therefore cant verify your identity this way.

I wonder if people who have used AI will be reflected enough to include similar disclaimers about their research methods for transparency.

Firefox extension for those who are interested.

Germany is so not ready for the increasing heat of German summers: The public transport in my city often has not functioning AC, making every trip an unbearable sweat fest. Same goes for local trains. This wont convince people to switch to public transport instead of cars.

In my talks, I am beginning to sound like a broken record: ChatGPT is no search engine! Be mindful where you share your data! Current AI is not equal to intelligence! AI is a pattern recognition machine! And in the end, people go home and ask ChatGPT if this is true. Sigh.

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 1/

Heute Abend diskutiere ich mit anderen Expert*innen KI und Vielfalt in der Stadtbibliothek Stuttgart!

Counterpoint: Women are ahead of the curve on knowing AI is bullshit. www.ft.com/content/7f0f...

Did you know this and every sidewalk robot I have heard of is driven around by remote workers using joysticks and cameras often from another country? I remember one founder telling me the VC funding would solve the AI not working yet problem. I wonder if they have?

Well, that just about sums it up.

Weil der Peter Thiel Podcast grade so abgefeiert wird: Ja, der ist gut produziert. Aber: Er hat nicht nur Schwächen, sondern enthält mMn auch ziemlich problematische Aussagen. Here we go: Direkt in der Einleitung heißt es: "Er [Thiel] war schon antiwoke, bevor es das Wort woke überhaupt gab." 1/x

Das erste Mal habe ich als Teenager in den 90ern gegen die Klimakatastrophe protestiert. Damals wurden wir hauptsächlich ausgelacht. Ich habe also ein dickes Fell was menschliche Ignoranz betrifft, aber das nun komplette Tierpopulationen verschwinden und es einfach niemanden stört, macht mich irre.

I saw this headline somewhere online (can't remember where) "Why Gen Z looks younger than Millennials" and apparently the reason is elaborate skincare routines and NOT THAT GEN Z IS LITERALLY YOUNGER?!?!

Wie wollen wir denn bitte mehr internationale Talente anziehen, wenn wir bereits jetzt akademischen Nachwuch keine fairen Arbeitsbedingungen mit Zukunftsperspektive bieten können?

If we want to talk about how IT and design can be less centered around humans, inevitably we also have to talk about class, capitalism and privilege

“If God manifested himself as a human in the form of Jesus Christ, then why not as a posthuman in the form of superintelligent AI?” It's happening: Christianity and TESCREALism are merging in the MAGA movement -- or so I argue in my new article for @truthdig.bsky.social. A 🧵on this👇

Apparently, "Getting dressed with AI" is now a thing.

Very hyped to read this, by @emilymbender.bsky.social and @alexhanna.bsky.social

Germanys "most prolific AI investor": "OpenAI wurde verklagt, weil sie Bücher zum Training verwendet haben, und die Verlage fordern nun Geld. Aber warum? Soll KI doch Bücher lesen und daraus lernen. Wissen sollte kostenfrei und jedem zugänglich sein." www.t-online.de/digital/aktu...

"Research is a public good, and one that’s vital to producing knowledge we can use to inform policy and practice. With Silicon Valley in full AI hype mode, we need independent studies of AI in education that we can trust..." buildcognitiveresonance.substack.com/p/something-...

Yesterday, I watched an Instagram Reel of German Influcencer Jule Lobo, where she explained how she uses ChatGPT to get dressed every morning which according to her saves her a lot of time. Turns out this was another case "Do we really need AI for this?": A Thread ⬇️

Critical humanities discourse on AI will be doomed if it does not come up with better metaphors. Corporate AI is not a «cognitive entity» or some «other intelligence». It's a political project and a system of surveillance, extraction & exploitation 1/

Germany is in the middle of a massive drought - where I live there has not been any rain in 2 weeks after a already too dry winter and spring. Yet I read or hear nothing about this in German media or from our newly elected government officials.