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Read our new issue on LLMs, gen AI, and rise of chatbots! Follow us on Mastodon + Bluesky where our editor now posts.

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In “Endangered Judgment,” political theorist Luke Fernandez critiques the dominance of instrumental reason. Drawing on Joseph Weizenbaum’s (and Hannah Arendt’s) distinction between calculation and judgment, he warns machine logic replacement undermines human responsibility.
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Three artists from Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (“Cultural Red Teaming: ARRG! and Creative Misuse of AI Systems”) take on AI by flipping AI and turn logic into a playful critique of creativity and control—a sharp read for anyone into art, tech, or resistance.
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neil turkewitz@neilturkewitz·
Anti-AI views ≠ boomer “get off my lawn.” Young adults’ respond more negatively. “Pew Research Center found nearly 1/2 of respondents would like a painting less if they learned it was made by AI; younger adults were even more likely to respond negatively to AI-generated media.”
WIRED@WIRED

A scavenger hunt campaign to promote Taylor Swift’s new album The Life of a Showgirl resulted in a viral #SwiftiesAgainstAI campaign. wired.com/story/taylor-s…

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Grace nanoha@nanoha1995·
@ComedoErgoSum @CriticalAI Sounds fascinating how does it frame the role of AI in the humanities?Definitely adding this to my reading list. Thanks for sharing
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Xaq Frohlich
Xaq Frohlich@ComedoErgoSum·
I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in @CriticalAI : read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ar… Just what I needed to wrap my head around how AI can work for the humanities, and the need for more critical AI literacy and human-centered AI.
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Ed Newton-Rex
Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex·
The UK's Intellectual Property Office has tweeted about the government's proposals, which would allow AI companies to train on copyrighted work without a licence. They've asked for your views, so I encourage you to reply to their tweet.
Intellectual Property Office UK@The_IPO

The UK government AI and Copyright Consultation opens today. We want to hear from a wide range of voices. Respond to the consultation to share your views. [Link]: gov.uk/government/con…

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neil turkewitz@neilturkewitz·
This development illustrates that the ethical issues around the building of AI models designed to produce derivative text &/or images isn’t limited to the issue of consent. We need to ask ourselves broader questions about AI production & the impact on creators & society. @Knibbs
Techmeme@Techmeme

Harvard says it's releasing a high-quality dataset of ~1M public-domain books, created with funding from Microsoft and OpenAI, to help train LLMs and AI tools (@knibbs / Wired) wired.com/story/harvard-… #a241212p1" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">techmeme.com/241212/p1#a241… twitter.com/Techmeme/statu…

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David Deubelbeiss
David Deubelbeiss@ddeubel·
I'm becoming more and more convinced that the "secret sauce" of generative AI is rephrasing. It takes existing written text and rephrases it and presents it as its own. No attribution. A giant version of Quillbot, wool over our eyes. It's the mechanical turk under the table.
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neil turkewitz@neilturkewitz·
Essential reading. ⁦@ednewtonrex⁩ forcefully & thoughtfully sets out why societies should adopt (or maintain) legislative frameworks that require AI companies to affirmatively obtain consent prior to using creative works to train AI models. 🙏🏼⚖️ ed.newtonrex.com/optouts
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This looks potentially interesting (though none of us has as yet read it).
BensenHsu@BensenHsu

The paper discusses the growing challenges of the "memory wall" problem, where the speed of memory and communication is not keeping up with the exponential growth in compute power. This is becoming a major bottleneck for training and serving large AI models, particularly in the domain of natural language processing. The findings demonstrate that memory bandwidth, rather than compute, is becoming the primary bottleneck for decoder models like GPT-2, especially at low batch sizes. This is due to the higher memory operations and lower arithmetic intensity of the matrix-vector operations inherent in the auto-regressive inference of these models. full paper: openread.academy/en/paper/readi…

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Brian Merchant
Brian Merchant@bcmerchant·
I will humbly note that I argued back in April that the AI promises were — in the truest sense of the term — smoke and mirrors bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-really-is…
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Multiple sources are now reporting LLMs aren't scaling as hoped—larger datasets and more compute aren't improving AI systems as fast. The companies, naturally, are pressing on, calling for billions more in investment. One way to read this: The hope is to make AI too big to fail.

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@emilymbender.bsky.social@emilymbender·
As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>
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Victor Pickard
Victor Pickard@VWPickard·
The election debacle cannot be entirely blamed on the failures of our media system, but such long-standing systemic pathologies certainly played a key role. Likewise, rebuilding a vibrant information infrastructure must be a central piece of a broader re-democratization project.
Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social@Will_Bunch

The other big loser Tuesday was the mainstream media, which has all but imploded in public trust and as a force in American democracy. Trump won with the most disinformed electorate ever The battle to create a world for truth starts now. My new column🎁share.inquirer.com/bpjtJ3

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