danmcquillan, to ai

Re-reading 'On the genealogy of machine learning datasets: A critical history of ImageNet' by @alexhanna. So clear the LLM debacle goes back to the start of the DL boom; it's data fetish, flat universalism, social illiteracy & contempt for workers https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/20539517211035955

danmcquillan, to LLMs

"Rather than being an apocalyptic technology, AI is more aptly characterized as a form of supercharged bureaucracy that ramps up everyday cruelties" 'Resisting AI' p4 https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

danmcquillan, to random

It's been a year since the publication of 'Resisting AI', and I think it's fair to say the need to actually resist AI is more urgent than ever.
https://www.transformingsociety.co.uk/2023/07/17/the-extensive-and-unconventional-reach-of-dan-mcquillans-resisting-ai/

danmcquillan, to ai

lol yes but this focus on talking heads diverts attention from the underlying political dynamics, including the need for social movements of resistance

danmcquillan, to ai

Well, it really doesn't mean any of those things. Using AI to 'optimise' care and learning actually means more precaritisation of workers who are already at breaking point and an algorithmic amplification of injustices already present in our social systems. Time to resist AI.

danmcquillan, to random

Struck by the overlaps between Ted Chiang's New Yorker piece https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/will-ai-become-the-new-mckinsey and the arguments in 'Resisting AI'. If you think he's got a point but want more in-depth analysis and a more radical response than 'less harmful capitalism' check out https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai

danmcquillan, to random

"UK government ‘hackathon’ to search for ways to use AI to cut asylum backlog" https://theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/apr/29/government-hackathon-to-search-for-ways-to-use-ai-to-cut-asylum-backlog

JohannesStarke, to random German
@JohannesStarke@norden.social avatar

„Converting the social world into data for the benefit of AI is to convert ourselves into a standing reserve for optimization and prediction. We are abstracted and reduced to that which can be usefully optimized.“
@danmcquillan p.50

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