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emilymbender, 2 hours ago to random

This paper and its predecessor that Chirag Shah and I wrote started off as a reaction to Google's plans to shove "GenAI" into search. It was clear that that was a bad idea as early as 2021 (when we started writing the first paper) and it's even clearer now.

https://dair-community.social/@emilymbender/112005034372139457

emilymbender, 22 hours ago to random

The folks at FTC Office of Technology are doing excellent work taking in research and using it to make a practical difference. See link for a range of topics they are interested in -- for anyone working in these areas, this is a great way to have impact!

https://www.ftc.gov/policy/advocacy-research/tech-at-ftc/2024/05/p-np-not-exactly-here-are-some-research-questions-office-technology

emilymbender, 1 day ago to random

On the next Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, guest host @mmitchell_ai and I will look into claims that "AI has learned to deceive humans". Join us live at noon Pacific, May 20, 2024:

twitch.tv/dair_institute

emilymbender, 6 days ago (edited 5 days ago) to random

As folks discuss the plundering of the open internet/sharing economy by the data-hungry LLM trainers, it seems like a good time to remind ourselves to find something other than "the tragedy of the commons" as a metaphor. On the racist, terrible origins of that phrase:

https://discardstudies.com/2019/07/15/the-tragedy-of-the-tragedy-of-the-commons/

karabaic, 8 days ago to random

So depressed by AI Hype...hey, here's a promising story in Nature about scientists being encouraged to report negative results...I'll read that to cheer me up!

5 grafs later...

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01389-7

emilymbender, 9 days ago to random

I would like to remind the world that you actually don't have to get into bed with OpenAI. StackOverflow was a beacon of resistance, but I guess their principles were for sale after all.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/stack-overflow-bans-users-en-masse-for-rebelling-against-openai-partnership-users-banned-for-deleting-answers-to-prevent-them-being-used-to-train-chatgpt

emilymbender, 10 days ago to random

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 31: Science is Human Endeavor in which Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join me & @alex to explore why the dream of artificial scientists is not only impossible but actually a nightmare.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/15020029-episode-31-science-is-a-human-endeavor-feat-molly-crockett-and-lisa-messeri-april-15-2024

Thx to Christie Taylor for production!

emilymbender, 12 days ago to random

Latest Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 newsletter, on AI hype infecting a key player in the pharmaceutical sector.

Wouldn't it be great if the FDA were as on top of the impacts of AI hype as the FTC?

https://buttondown.email/maiht3k/archive/wheres-the-vaccine-against-ai-hype/

emilymbender, 17 days ago to random

Bender & Shah 2024 is now officially published as open access at TWeb.

For everyone who is using or promoting LLM driven chatbots as information access systems: this one is for you

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

emilymbender, 19 days ago to random

TFW you've selected and organized too many links for an all hell episode and it's still less than half of the backlog and yet more links are coming in....

Anyway, join us today!!

Ready for more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000?

Climate change has reached AI Hell (frozen over last we checked in December) and now we're flooded with nonstop nonsense. Join me and @alex as we wade our way through on Monday April 29, noon Pacific

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

emilymbender, 22 days ago to random

Not just corporate capture, but TESCREAL corporate capture. Ugh.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/openais-sam-altman-and-other-tech-leaders-to-serve-on-ai-safety-board-7dc47b78

emilymbender, 23 days ago to random

Ready for more Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000?

Climate change has reached AI Hell (frozen over last we checked in December) and now we're flooded with nonstop nonsense. Join me and @alex as we wade our way through on Monday April 29, noon Pacific

https://www.twitch.tv/dair_institute

arjen, 24 days ago to random Dutch

Envisioning Information Access Systems: What Makes for Good Tools and a Healthy Web?

Must read article in ACM Transactions on the Web on challenges in information access and whether LLM might play a role (or not!), by Chirag Shah and @emilymbender

"Information access is not merely an application to be solved by the so-called ‘AI’ techniques du jour. Rather, it is a key human activity, with impacts on both individuals and society."

Better design that right!!

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468

emilymbender, 24 days ago to random

Really, really loved this episode of Our Opinions Are Correct -- and encourage all authors to consider joining AABB (I did, after listening).

https://www.ouropinionsarecorrect.com/shownotes/2024/4/18/fascism-and-book-bans-with-maggie-tokuda-hall

emilymbender, 28 days ago to random

Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, episode 30! @alex and guest host @timnitGebru read the Techno-Optimism Manifesto so you don't have to.

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/14916180-episode-30-marc-s-miserable-manifesto-april-1-2024

Thanks to Christie Taylor for production!

Audiogram with MAIHT3k logo, title "Episode 30: Marc's Miserable Manifesto", subtitle "How a Silicon Valley billionaire's so-called 'techno-optimist' vision has eugencist roots" Timnit Gebru: Yeah, "There are only three sources of growth. Population growth, natural resource utilization, and technology. Developed societies are depopulating all over the world, across cultures. The total human population may already be shrinking." This, uh, this reminds me of the pronatalists. I mean, he probably is one, you know, they're also in the TESCREAL bundle, right? They're like funding all of these, um, ways to, for of course, you know, white people to have kids. And it's not, it's not us that are depopulating. Right, we're overpopulating, is probably how he's feeling about it. Alex Hanna: Well, that's what, that's what, that's what “developed societies is,” you know, that's a, that's effectively a watch word for, you know, he's being like Black and Brown people. Their populations are growing. The, the barbarians are growing, but the white, the white people are shrinking, right? I mean, that's effectively, uh-- Timnit Gebru: The great replacement theory. Alex Hanna: Yeah. I mean, that's effectively saying, so it does have this kind of convergence with the pronatalists effectively, we need to promote good good eugenics, good racial hygiene. I mean, it's very much in that vein. Timnit Gebru: He's not being subtle about it at all. He writes that all over the piece.

emilymbender, 29 days ago to random

The absolute obliviousness of Meta (the company)'s response in this article is astounding: "this is new technology and it may not always return the response we intend". The desired output here is actually easy to achieve: don't.

https://www.404media.co/facebooks-ai-told-parents-group-it-has-a-disabled-child/

emilymbender, 1 month ago to random

The best thing you will read about "AI" today, from Riley MacLeod -- LOL funny + spot on

https://aftermath.site/humane-ai-marques-brownlee

emilymbender, 1 month ago to random

So much of the sales around "generative AI" are about reducing friction -- making it so anyone can "produce art" or "write novels" etc etc. So it's particularly telling to see Logitech doubling down on making it even easier. People aren't dispensing enough of the synthetic info? Maybe the problem isn't that it takes too many clicks. Maybe people are realizing that synthetic content isn't worth it.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/17/24132468/logitech-ai-prompt-builder-button

emilymbender, 1 month ago to random

Bender & Shah 2024 is now officially published at TWeb.

For everyone who is using or promoting LLM driven chatbots as information access systems: this one is for you

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3649468