Posts by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
(DIR) Post #AWPY6QkR61TmRh8jBI by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-06-06T08:53:41Z
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I have a new piece out in the Sociological Review on the way that the spectacle of generative AI paradoxically reveals the necropolitics of the here-and-now https://thesociologicalreview.org/magazine/june-2023/artificial-intelligence/predicted-benefits-proven-harms/
(DIR) Post #AXWR0cLF1uSXtXpi1w by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-07-09T15:35:15Z
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@tante also, the term 'tragedy of the commons' was created by a far-right thinker and promoter of racist pseudo-science https://www.splcenter.org/fighting-hate/extremist-files/individual/garrett-hardin
(DIR) Post #AZULcgV7tcHThmXwBM by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-09-06T06:24:02Z
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The abstractions of scale aren’t simply a model architecture or a server infrastructure, but a homogenising force that eliminates context; a technological terra nullius that legitimates expropriation.
(DIR) Post #AZy75f8E5TsXMpRmQS by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-09-20T12:04:54Z
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My evidence to the House of Lords Communications and Digital Select Committee inquiry on Large Language Models has been published on the UK parliamentary website. TL;DR LLM adoption is operating as a 'shock doctrine' beyond regulatory restraint. https://committees.parliament.uk/writtenevidence/124038/pdf/ #ai #llm #uk #parliament #regulation
(DIR) Post #Aa1PjTsZWdwhcOCsng by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-09-22T09:58:35Z
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Is 'LLM self-evaluation'?a) an incredibly dumb ideab) an implicit admission of defeatc) a way of scaling stupidityd) all of the above
(DIR) Post #AanHChx4aJSVwdg1p2 by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-10-15T11:30:46Z
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'ChatGPT use shows that the grant-application system is broken' https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03238-5 - I'd go further; that LLMs can fool bureaucracies with bullshit shows the role of bureaucracy has never been to properly order and regulate, but simply to obfuscate the location of real power
(DIR) Post #Aar4TZFP8xDkhFcKUC by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-10-17T08:06:46Z
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can anyone recommend a platform for running a short online course?
(DIR) Post #AarEV32wpsISwq8SeW by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-10-17T10:00:22Z
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@tante good question. managing signups and payments. hosting materials. streaming. not sure what else...
(DIR) Post #Aaro2zWfvbY8Gqxdvk by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-10-17T16:38:40Z
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@tante as Clint would say - "you've got to ask yourself one question: 'Do I feel hacky?' Well, do ya, punk?"
(DIR) Post #Ab3Xjg2vj0qC2Z5vHs by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-10-23T08:31:09Z
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The only 'alignment' going on is that between the fairy stories about 'existential risk' and elite interests in diverting us from the real harms of AI. #alignment #existential #risk #AI
(DIR) Post #AbN0EcwkDvQdL9Ldgm by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-11-01T07:06:01Z
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Exclusive live footage from inside the UK Summit on AI Safety:
(DIR) Post #AbWhtS8ZMUJw8lERGq by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-11-06T07:15:50Z
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AI isn't sci-fi but the precaritisation of jobs, the continued privatisation of everything and the erasure of actual social relations. AI is Thatcherism in computational form. And, like Thatcher herself, real world AI boosts bureaucratic cruelty towards the most vulnerable. #AI #Thatcher
(DIR) Post #AbagPI272dIynG6Yme by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-11-08T08:10:40Z
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Well done, responsible critics of AI. In the time it's taken for generative AI to vividly demonstrate that AI solutionism is a violent power grab, you've inched from 'ethical AI' to 'AI audits'. Role on auditwashing, I guess...
(DIR) Post #AbdG5hWGYkUyiE5TYO by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-11-09T10:32:27Z
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connectionist AI is 'drought-inducing computing'
(DIR) Post #AbgwYzryBzS7ZSlqlc by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-11-11T08:37:44Z
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AI is an amplification of the logics of institutional bureaucracy and governance under neoliberalism. As such, these institutions are unable to ‘regulate’ AI in a way that would prevent substantial harms, because that would require an existential challenge to their own operations
(DIR) Post #AbgwjxvLlYCUira9RY by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-11-11T08:39:29Z
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How about an "AI Free" badge for institutions and services who are not going to buy into the toxic hype
(DIR) Post #AbwZ184BHE0IMpB6YK by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-11-18T20:52:03Z
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"A boardroom coup by the rationalist cultists is quite plausible, as well as being very funny. Rationalists’ chronic inability to talk like regular humans may even explain the statement calling Altman a liar. It’s standard for rationalists to call people who don’t buy their pitch liars.So what from normal people would be an accusation of corporate war crimes is, from rationalists, just how they talk about the outgroup of non-rationalists. They assume non-believers are evil"https://circumstances.run/@davidgerard/111433483415940011
(DIR) Post #AcnRaqCfYpmFjcmdYe by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-12-14T09:38:15Z
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'AI models propagate false race-based medical information, Stanford researchers find' https://stanforddaily.com/2023/12/07/ai-models-propagate-false-race-based-medical-information-stanford-researchers-find/ - LLMs are bottom-feeders, dredging the sediment of historical prejudices to give them an algorithmic second life
(DIR) Post #Aco5xmYZHXitFeWKLw by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-12-14T09:18:06Z
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It's not time to professionalise algorithmic auditing, it's time to challenge the emergence of audit-washing#AI #grift
(DIR) Post #AdEmfoD8bepDljLtTM by danmcquillan@kolektiva.social
2023-12-27T14:22:36Z
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While respecting the good intentions of the researchers, this is (imo) an unnecessary innovation that 1) misses the point about factors preventing greener cities 2) acts as greenwashing for AI, which is an anti-ecological technology