Working people of this country do not deserve to have their lives put into a digital dragnet to become playthings of the oligarchs. Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies. #sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...

Lucky and happy to be a research fellow at CAIS, where I get to look at the disturbing content that trains language models 🚯♻️📥 garbage in 🚯♻️📤 garbage out—and try to map more intersectional directions for machine learning 🏳️‍🌈🔓📖🤖✨

Countdown to Spring 2026 release party begins now 🥰

"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead. Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts." Sounds promising. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Open-source lets us see how predictive systems encode biased, categorical logics. While better than closed systems, open-source alone does not address the issues with the logics themselves #predictivepolicing #criticalai

Replicative AI is a more apt description of “generative AI.” The language matters.

Stored datasets are "target banks" are people who are killed. And the "AI services" are built on the very same tools we toy with on our phones.

On bad faith arguments and "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now":

NEW EPISODE! We talk to the artist/coder/critical AI scholar Sarah Ciston about their badass chatbot Ladymouth, which responds to trolls and incels on hate forums. Watch/listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts! youtu.be/-EnzPpjmeGk?...