@timnitGebru@dair-community.social
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timnitGebru

@timnitGebru@dair-community.social

Fired from Google for raising issues of discrimination in the workplace and writing about the dangers of large language models: https://www.wired.com/story/google-timnit-gebru-ai-what-really-happened/.

Founded The Distributed AI Research Institute (https://www.dair-institute.org/) to work on community rooted AI research.

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DAIR, to random
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DAIR & our collaborators call on @facctconference @FAccT
to divest from Israeli apartheid, occupation & genocide. Get our zines on the complicity of the conference's sponsors, & a pin if you haven't done so already.

Join an emergency meeting on June 5 at 12:50pm Rio time in Grego Room + Zoom, RSVP here: Tomorrow, June 5 at 12:50pm in Grego Room + Zoom, RSVP here: http://bit.ly/FAccT-Palestine http://bit.ly/FAccT-Palestine.

Get your zine at one of the conference tables.

FAccT for a Free Palestine with the Palestinian flag, and sketches of people. Text is in black, with people's graphics in red and green. Condemn the violent occupation of Palestine and refuse funding from complicit corporations.
We demand that the FAccT -- EC & Steering Committee: Condemn the violent occupation of Palestine, and refuse funding from complicit corporations. (photos of people standing and in a wheel chair, next to them stacks of money and bombs).
Its not just FAccT. There are lots of other ways your institutions may be entangled with the genocide in Palestine. 1. Many tech corporations, large and small, contract with the Israeli government -- even non-military contractors. 2. Many of our labs receive grants from the U.S. department of defense, which has massively supported the ongoing Israeli military assaults on Palestine. Even seemingly inoccous projects are often co-opted & used for weapons research. 3. Many of our universities' endowments are invested in arms manufacturers & complicit corporations via their hedge funds. For example, of the University of Michigan's $23B endowment, 62% was in high risk investments connected to weapons manufacturers & the Israeli state. Universities know this, & they are calling the police on their own students & faculty protesting the occupation, sometimes to violent ends. How do we fight back? Start conversations with your colleagues. How can we be more connected? Participate in the ongoing Boycott, Divest, Sanction movement. Where does your money go? Map the flow of military funding into your own research groups. Whose money are you taking? Coordinate actions with your coworkers & colleagues, like sick-outs or sit-ins. What can we accomplish together? Read & sign the HCI Researchers Divestment Pledge (bit.ly/HCIdivest). What do we stand for? For all resoruces, references, & tips, check out bit.ly/facct4palestine.

DAIR,
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ZekuZelalem, to random
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THREAD: Hello friends. Work has me running everywhere and extremely busy, sorry for not updating more often.

I'm still busy, but I come here to drop a few lengthy MUST READ reports for people who want an understanding of affairs in East Africa.

C.W: content primarily centered around genocide.

ZekuZelalem, (edited )
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  1. Newly published (yesterday) 120+ page report by the DC based New Lines Institute thinktank (which oversees @newlinesmag btw) determined that Ethiopian & Eritrean forces carried out a genocide of the Tigrayan minority from 2020-2022. Authored by over a dozen legal experts, the report is the first independent probe to confirm that genocidal acts were carried out during Ethiopia's civil war. It's long sought recognition for horrendous suffering in Ethiopia's Tigray region
    https://newlinesinstitute.org/rules-based-international-order/genocide-in-tigray-serious-breaches-of-international-law-in-the-tigray-conflict-ethiopia-and-paths-to-accountability-2/
alshafei, to Palestine
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Stop Killer AI:

https://stopkiller.ai/

OmaymaS, to tech
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"I'll ask around" 🤷‍♀️

jalcine, to random
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..... It's Google Photos all over again https://infosec.exchange/@krelnik/112501601910674910

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/06/google-dev-apologizes-after-photos-app-tags-black-people-as-gorillas/

OmaymaS, to ai
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I feel dizzy, sick and bored at the AI discourse.

We keep hearing the same bullshit.

We keep seeing new variations of the same flawed products.

We keep reading papers that state the obvious.

We keep pushing back the nonsense.

We keep seeing people cheering for the same nonsense.

We keep being pushed to embrace that nonsense.

🤕

emilymbender, to random
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000 Episode 32: A Flood of AI Hell, in which @alex and I manage to stay afloat through it all thanks to an amazing sea shanty that she wrote for the occasion. Ridicule as praxis!

https://www.buzzsprout.com/2126417/15120816-episode-32-a-flood-of-ai-hell-april-29-2024

Also available as video on PeerTube!
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/w/kwJH8zfnLR4uowPQCigMCe

With thanks, as always, to Christie Taylor for production!

alwillis, to random
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And this mf’er right here…

“In a startling concurrence, the justice [Clarence Thomas] faulted Brown v. Board of Education for empowering the court to limit racist redistricting.”

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2024/05/supreme-court-south-carolina-redistricting-ruling-clarence-thomas-brown-v-board.html

DAIR, to random
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“US Big Tech companies are systemically abusing and exploiting African workers. In Kenya, these US companies are undermining the local labor laws, the country’s justice system and violating international labor standards. Our working conditions amount to modern day slavery.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/05/23/meta-kenya-contractors-ruto-biden/

DAIR, to random
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"Wanted to say, If they can pull this on a Hollywood celebrity what about "unknown" people, & I realised no need to imagine whats already happened, is happening" Adio-Adet Dinika on OpenAI using Scarlett Johansson's voice without consent or compensation.

That is their business model.

DAIR, to random
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"When I heard the released demo, I was shocked, angered and in disbelief that Mr. Altman would pursue a voice that sounded so eerily similar to mine that my closest friends and news outlets could not tell the difference...Mr. Altman even insinuated that the similarity was intentional, tweeting a single word 'her' - a reference to the film in which I voiced a chat system, Samantha, who forms an intimate relationship with a human."

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/scarlett-johansson-shocked-angered-openai-voice-rcna153180

timnitGebru, to random
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❗️Urgent Call to Rebuild Healthcare in War-Torn Tigray.❗️

I'll be matching up to $15k of your donations.

GoFundMe is unreliable for the horn of Africa atm, so I am using TipHub for this campaign.

Please let me know if you have any issues donating.
https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

timnitGebru,
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Update: we're only $2,000 away from our goal 🎉

Thank you to the 168 of you who donated $13k so far. $2k more and we will have $30k (with me matching your $15k) to send medical supplies to 18 healthcare facilities in Tigray.

You can donate here: https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644#/action-2

timnitGebru,
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Thank you to 120 of you who donated!

We are almost 2/3rd's there. We're less than $6k away from reaching our goal.

Reminder: I'll be matching $15k of your donations. You can donate here: https://tiphub.co/urgent-call-to-rebuild-healthcare-in-war-torn-tigray/644

timnitGebru,
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And we are at GOAAAAAAAAAALLLLL thanks to Mary's generous ONE THOUSAND DOLLAR donation which has now gotten us to $15k. Thank you to the 188 of you who donated $15k, which is going to be matched to be $30k.

More updates soon!

timnitGebru, to random
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"Leike had said that OpenAI's "safety culture & processes have taken a backseat to shiny products" in recent years, and that his team struggled to obtain the resources to get their safety work done."

Lol. But there never was a "safety culture"!

The founding of OpenAI was premised on "existential risk" of AI to "humanity," the new grift white men created to siphon even more resources for themselves under the guise of saving all of us.

https://mashable.com/article/openai-sam-altman-greg-brockman-respond-to-jan-leike-resignation

eaton,
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@timnitGebru Whenever someone’s pitch for safety is “X is so dangerous, WE have to be the ones that make it first!” I know there’s bullshit comin’

DAIR, to random
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"I’ve written about relationships between tech companies and the military before, so I shouldn’t have been surprised by anything I saw or heard at this conference. But when it ended, and I departed DC for home, it felt like my life force had been completely sucked out of my body."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/may/17/ai-weapons-palantir-war-technology

emilymbender, to random
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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

DAIR, to random
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Angie Wang's illustrated essay for the New Yorker, wondering whether her child's early attempts at speech were the same as LLMs, was a finalist for the 2024 Pulitzer Prize. "A toddler has a life, and learns language to describe it. An L.L.M. learns language but has no life of its own to describe," she writes.

Read On The New Yorker's Website: https://www.newyorker.com/humor/sketchbook/is-my-toddler-a-stochastic-parrot

alshafei, to random
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"Within a day of his ousting, Altman said he received 10 to 20 texts from presidents and prime ministers around the world. [...] He responded to the messages and thanked the leaders without feeling fazed."

I'm not sure getting so much support from world leaders is something I'd brag about. I interpret it as being an asset or a pawn to some really shady things they often do at the expense of human rights - things Altman's AI and crypto projects are surely enabling.

https://www.businessinsider.com/sam-altman-comments-openai-ousting-not-eating-sleeping-2024-5

emilymbender, to random
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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

trochee, to random
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> [AI imperialist politics] looks more than a bit like the competition among colonialist state and corporate powers in the seventeenth century, which together carved up the globe and its peoples.

How the “Frontier” Became the Slogan of Uncontrolled AI — Nathan Sanders and Bruce Schneier
https://jacobin.com/2024/02/artificial-intelligence-frontier-colonialism

via my younger, wiser brother dkg

emilymbender, to random
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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!

DAIR, to random
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"Is lack of diverse representation in data problematic? It sure is, but merely expanding exploitation of data subjects is not the answer."

https://medium.com/

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