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/

"When you outsource the thinking, you outsource the learning." deplet.ing/the-copilot-...

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...

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...

"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...

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...

sometimes i forget im a TO and i actually have to do TO things at least its a new venue this time

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-...

“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.“

[threateningly]

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

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

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

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.)

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...

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

“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..”

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:

hyperpop good www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrbc...

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...

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

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

Destruction of critical thinking continues apace.

sepiarecords..................my soundcloud goat....................................... www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm4468...

i love timescamming a control player in bo3 :) (i am also playing control)

need to get back into finding indie artists in youtube so here we are

making out with riptide gearhulk sloppy style

We're stoked to introduce the 'No Gen AI' seal for indie games! Indie devs can use it on their game's store page to assure potential players that their game was made without the use of Generative AI. You can grab it from the Polygon Treehouse website:- www.polygon-treehouse.com/no-gen-ai-seal

i am falling out of multiplayer games for reasons unknown to mankind

7 year old marquee snatched

Dishonest charts are coming from all directions, and they're only going to hit harder. Unless we push back. So, an interactive guide: Defense Against Dishonest Charts flowingdata.com/projects/dis...

Psyger-0 Manga Page Redraw #シャンフロFA #shangrilafrontier

E-rickshaws are leading “the common man’s” EV revolution restofworld.org/2025/sazgar-...

if i watch enough assorthair youtube shorts i will eventually manifest the capability to run good ass dyed hair styles at corporate work as a male

now that i am finally an adult capable of more than one thought i can play the psp game i ragequitted as a child

The cool* thing about papers like this is they sort of demonstrate what happens, which is they identify an extremely serious and systemic problem underlying the technology, but then they (a) put the blame on the user and (b) propose non-systemic responses *not cool, actually very bad

Microsoft's own research confirms something that was already pretty obvious: relying on a text generating machine to come up with answers erodes critical thinking, and is a method favoured by those who never liked doing critical thinking in the first place advait.org/files/lee_20...

Drivers for the delivery app Grab complained that Google Maps couldn’t navigate Southeast Asia’s complex and unpredictable streets. So Grab enlisted its 5 million drivers to chart the streets as they worked, creating its own, more-accurate map restofworld.org/2024/grab-go...

arcaded too hard my right arm hurts :(

Filipino tech workers launched a coalition to lobby for protections as AI is deployed. The AI tools raise new risks, and the firing of a worker who spoke to Rest of World signals a “code of silence” around the impact of AI on the workplace, the group said restofworld.org/2025/code-ai...

we have written extensively on this very topic firstmonday.org/ojs/index.ph... dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1...

Not sure if these are the kinds you're thinking of, but the Algorithmic Sabotage Research Group over on Mastodon posted a list a few days ago: tldr.nettime.org/@asrg/113867... And similarly, there's Glaze and Nightshade: glaze.cs.uchicago.edu And I saw this as well: www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

out of curiosity are there any mpreg fics that end up with an abortion trying to prove a point for my own bc out of 6 women that i know that like omegaverse all 6 turn out to be staunch religious 'i like gay if its not irl :)' pro lifers

virtua fighter 5 revo: glue eater edition twitch.tv/syncuren

amazing development or yet another instagram bait: instagram trap cafe playing action bronson

despite the risk of being thrown off a cliff i will say that ginya and maia's cover image gives extreme yearning vibes

yes, and... don't call them "hallucinations". They are not living beings, they do not "hallucinate". They make up bullshit.

finally i can use this to show him some pain

obsessed so much with path of achra i start thinking of builds for my all spec clear run on my trip

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