#aicritique — Public Fediverse posts

Ah yes, the pinnacle of modern tech journalism: a whitepaper critique so insightful it demands you enable #JavaScript and #cookies to access it. 🍪🔍 Clearly, the future of AI hinges on your browser settings. 🙄🖥️
https://chipsandcheese.com/p/nvidias-vera-whitepaper-has-a-thread #moderntechjournalism #AIcritique #browsersettings #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated

Oh, joy! Another tech bro manifesto claiming #open-source models are the second coming of AI 🤖. Wake us up when they actually outperform a potato 🥔. Until then, we're stuck with buzzword salads claiming victory over imaginary competitors. 🍿
https://www.wafer.ai/blog/kimi-k3-mi355x #techbromanifesto #AIcritique #buzzwordsalad #potatooutperformance #imaginarycompetitors #HackerNews #ngated

Nobody's written a book-length biography of Joseph Weizenbaum and his work, have they?

#aicritique #fuckai

File under: AI Resistance

I'm reading – and enjoying immensely – @emilymbender and @alex's book #TheAICon.

I've been learning a lot of things and something that really stood out recently is the need to be careful about the language we use to describe these systems. Bender and Hanna helpfully explain:

"It matters what words we use when we talk about these technologies. For instance, in our writing, we don’t use the term “hallucination” to discuss the errors of LLMs, for two reasons. First, if it’s used tongue-in-cheek, it is making light of what can be symptoms of serious mental illness. Second,
“hallucination” refers to the experience of perceiving things that aren’t there. But LLMs actually don’t have perceptions, and suggesting that they do is yet more unhelpful anthropomorphization. That means we also avoid assigning thought processes to these systems, or saying that they can
“think”. Metaphors have power, they structure the frames of discourse, and they can subtly and insidiously encourage certain ways of understanding technology and the social systems it is embedded in."

Antropomorphizing AI contributes to AI hype. Thanks Emily and Alex for helping me see things this way!

#AIcritique #AIhype #NoAI #AIresistance #AI #books

some results from experimenting with my BACHIN TA-4

#GenerativeArt #AICritique #HybridArt #TechAndArt #CreativeCoding #AcrylicPainting #HumanVsAI #DigitalMeetsPhysical #ArtExperiment #ProcessArt

some results from experimenting with my BACHIN TA-4

#GenerativeArt #AICritique #HybridArt #TechAndArt #CreativeCoding #AcrylicPainting #HumanVsAI #DigitalMeetsPhysical #ArtExperiment #ProcessArt

🤖 "AI is not the messiah of tech, it's the harbinger of doom!" proclaims Currys' blog, pretending to see the future while recycling old newsletters. 📜 Let's just say, if AI ends the digital wave, it's because it got bored of reading this #nonsense. 🤦‍♂️
https://thenextwavefutures.wordpress.com/2026/04/07/ai-end-digital-wave-technology-innovation-perez/ #AIcritique #technews #futureofAI #digitalwave #HackerNews #ngated

My text "Curation and its Statistical Automation by Means of Artificial Intelligence" is now published in Databrowser

among highly esteemed colleagues, incl. Dominik Bönisch, Olga Goriunova, Leonardo Impett, Joasia Krysa, Christiane Paul, Helen V. Pritchard, Katrina Sluis, Winnie Soon, Gaia Tedone, Suzanne Treister, and Magdalena Tyżlik-Carver @magdalena

free PDF:
https://data-browser.net/db10.html

#curating #aicritique #data

Once more with a feeling:

LLM (ChatGpt etc) is not AI, its just a bunch of algorithms hallucinating about predicting words.

AI is just a buzzword, used to create hype. What we have now is not even close to a real AI. Don't buy the bullshit.

#ai #aicritique #llm #tekoäly #aislop

[Edit: a gentleperson contacted me and now I have a copy! Thank you, wonderful people of Mastodon!]

Can someone share a copy of this paper, please? I'm not finding it in the usual places.

Anderson, M.M. "AI as Philosophical Ideology: A Critical look back at John McCarthy’s Program". Philos. Technol. 37, 44 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13347-024-00731-1

Please boost!

#SciHub #Academic #PrePrint #philosphy #ideology #aicritique #icanhazpdf

Working on this in-progress-graphic about #AI and #AIcritique (imagine it as one combined tableau). Any comments, suggestions?

Panel 1 "Ideo Logics"

Great quantitative analysis of the funding of (US) #AI research of papers which where presented at NeurIPS: "In the current climate — where values such as accuracy, efficiency, and scale, as currently defined, are a priority, and there is a pattern of centralization of power — user safety, informed consent, or participation may be perceived as costly and time consuming, evading social needs." Bihane et. al 2022:13 #AIcritique

In our series of interviews for Training the Archive, Gabriel Pereira @gabrielopereira talks about "How the image collection ImageNet re-constructs reality" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OSHF7t5eyg

#machinelearning #AIcritique

Notes I posted from our #TrainingTheArchive conference in Aachen last week (sry first posted on twitter, now reposting here) #digitalhumanities #multimodalmodels #machinelearning #aicritique