#HitoSteyerl - Mean #images#ai
"#SenseTime is an #ArtificialIntelligence firm that, until April 2019, provided surveillance software to #Chinese authorities that was used to monitor and track #Uighurs; it had been flagged numerous times as having potential links to human-rights violations. It seems the combination of my name and face was not only used to optimize #MachineVision for #RacialClassification, but that this optimization was swiftly put into practice to identify and track members of an ethnic minority in #China. The fact of my existence on the internet was enough to turn my face into a tool of literal #discrimination wielded by an actually existing digital autocracy. [...] We interviewed [...] S., a student who did an internship in an ai start-up that offered personalized luxury travel recommendations to the better-off. His company’s communication strategy emphasized automation, with a recommender system allegedly based on users’ preferences extracted from social media. But behind the scenes, it outsourced all its processes to micro-providers in #Madagascar. It did no #MachineLearning" https://newleftreview.org/issues/ii140/articles/hito-steyerl-mean-images
"AI-generated books on Amazon are only the tip of the iceberg, with other #AI content flooding the rest of the internet with dubiously sourced material as well, which could easily trigger a pandemic of #misinformation.
Worse yet, these misleading signals could end up triggering a feedback loop, with AI text generators regurgitating each other's content."
"[...] as companies like Coca-Cola start making huge investments to use generative AI to sell more products, it’s becoming all too clear that this new tech will be used in the same ways as the last generation of digital tools: that what begins with lofty promises about spreading freedom and democracy ends up micro targeting ads at us so that we buy more useless, carbon-spewing stuff."
#ChatGPT is powered by a hidden army of contractors making $15 per hour. For a technology that is supposedly threatening many jobs, #AI tools require a large workforce to ensure accuracy and trust through a human feedback loop, something #Google has failed to do with #Bard.
So many people talk about ensuring that #AI and #AGI are programmed to not eradicate humanity, and almost no one talks about becoming the kind of species that artificial intelligences would want to work and chill with.
I don't think that the idea behind the #metaverse is dead. #Gaming industry is huge and highly profitable, and the only thing missing is a smaller and cheaper headset.
The decision of #Zuckerberg and his company #Meta to focus on the #Ai in the meantime, just shows they're desperate for growth and profit ASAP.
Even though #virtualReality will bring many troubles with it's widespread usage (#addiction and #asocial behavior first comes to mind), I think it's inevitable.
The new fad... what they call "AI"... is theft, pure and simple.
Naomi Klein calls this out as "the largest and most consequential theft in human history... Why, for instance, should a for-profit company be permitted to feed the paintings, drawings and photographs of living artists into a program... so it can then be used to generate doppelganger versions of those very artists’ work, with the benefits flowing to everyone but the artists themselves?" #AI#theft <cont>
> Pisane i szeroko komentowane są listy otwarte domagające się "wstrzymania prac na pół roku" ze względu na niebezpieczeństwo "utraty kontroli nad naszą cywilizacją."
> To przykrywa namacalne zagrożenia i krzywdy już dziś wyrządzane przez nieodpowiedzialnie zbudowane i wdrożone LLM, kierując zamiast tego naszą uwagę na hipotetyczne scenariusze żywcem wzięte z hollywoodzkich produkcji.
AI can provide millions of students with support to complete secondary education, fill an additional 3.3 million jobs, and, more urgently, help us tackle the spread and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with multiple advantages, these technologies also generate downside risks and challenges, derived from malicious...
So now we can all create endless AI generated pictures with Bing chat, an example made with "Create a picture of a modern house on an exposed cliff" , quite nice. #AI#GenerativeAI#Bing
@ErikJonker Thus, these systems produce photorealistic images that can be impossible to trace, making it difficult to tell the difference between what’s real and what’s #AI? Which safeguards are in place to avoid that these tools are utilized to spread disinformation? Some kind of advanced digital watermarking?
@ErikJonker If many questions need to be addressed first, why would you roll this out now, and take the risk of seriously ‘breaking’ things? #Bigtech companies have started an #ai arms race, without sufficient guidance, regulation, or pushback by policymakers. We are in a ‘Wild West’ scenario: new shiny applications everyday, completely without clarity on how all the applications or potential harms may arise. It’s nuts. 🫣
> Zuckerberg declared in a March update that Meta's "single largest investment is advancing AI and building it into every one of our products." Meta's chief technology officer, Andrew Bosworth, told CNBC in April that he, along with Mark Zuckerberg and the company's chief product officer, Chris Cox, were now spending most of their time on AI.
@rysiek@TechDesk@intelwire #Facebook + #AI = #dystopia and #psyops at a new level. Perhaps the #metaverse adventure was just a smoke screen or distraction from what they have been working on all along. There has never been a more urgent time for Facebookers to poison their data and orchestrate escape.
Why AI really is dangerous to Society...
'what we are witnessing is the wealthiest companies in history... unilaterally seizing the sum total of human knowledge that exists in digital, scrapable form and walling it off inside propriety products, many of which will take direct aim at the humans whose lifetime of labor trained the machines without giving permission or consent.'
@wellingtonrock
Reading the article now
Naomi Klein is spot here
"why call the errors “hallucinations” at all? Why not algorithmic junk? Or glitches?"
Someone else also compared these so called hallucination to artifacts (aka glitches) in jpeg or video streams. Better explanation for the public than hallucinations.
UNESCO: Ethics of Artificial Intelligence (www.unesco.org)
AI can provide millions of students with support to complete secondary education, fill an additional 3.3 million jobs, and, more urgently, help us tackle the spread and the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic. Along with multiple advantages, these technologies also generate downside risks and challenges, derived from malicious...