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Ben Gansky

@bengansky

grew up in a theater. wandering through the borderlands of data, critical theory, politics, power, culture, democracy &&&. phd in progress @ ASU.

Inscrit le Ocak 2011
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CIGI
CIGI@CIGIonline·
Bridging the gap between digitally transformed professional practice and professional governance will require training new professionals to do so. @seanmmcdonald and @bengansky explore the role of professional education programs to address this. Details:cigionline.org/publications/t…
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Ben Gansky@bengansky·
Looking for accounts of how Google changed intra-org comms and other infrastructure in response to Maven protests and 2018 walkout campaign... (referenced but not detailed in this LOGIC interview, for instance: logicmag.io/distribution/n…)... @mer__edith @bentarnoff help me out 🙏?
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Ali Alkhatib
Ali Alkhatib@_alialkhatib·
the frauds who claim that this is a credible threat are charlatans the billionaires who fund their work are robber barons the institutions that give them titles and honors are money-laundering schemes the government officials who parrot this bullshit back out are useful idiots
European Commission@EU_Commission

Mitigating the risk of extinction from AI should be a global priority. And Europe should lead the way, building a new global AI framework built on three pillars: guardrails, governance and guiding innovation ↓

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Ana Brandusescu
Ana Brandusescu@anabrandusescu·
This is the same Scale AI that is involved in the recent US announcement of taking "New Actions to Promote Responsible AI Innovation that Protects Americans’ Rights and Safety". whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
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Ana Brandusescu
Ana Brandusescu@anabrandusescu·
"Rights groups and labor researchers say Scale AI is among a number of American AI companies that have not abided by basic labor standards for their workers abroad." washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/…
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Meredith Whittaker
Meredith Whittaker@mer__edith·
Who's done good critical work on "age verification" systems/companies? I'm seeing a lot of grifty vendors prepared to hawk their wares as a new strain of child-focused online legislation moves forward. I'd love to read detailed assessments of the tech & the claims🙏
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Meredith Whittaker
Meredith Whittaker@mer__edith·
📢NEW PAPER! Where @davidthewid, @sarahbmyers & I unpack what Open Source AI even is. We find that the terms ‘open’ & ‘open source’ are often more marketing than technical descriptor, and that even the most 'open' systems don't alone democratize AI 1/ papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf…
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Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane@Abebab·
A major bottlenecks to this work has been compute constraints. Open source without access to compute only serves big corp & elite insts. eg. only downloading LAION 2B-en requires 6.2TB of storage + additional compute to carry out analyses such as running Pysentimiento. 36/
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Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane@Abebab·
These datasets are of 2 types: open, “freely available”, & mainly scraped from the CommonCrawl (e.g. LAION-400M & LAION-5B), & those that are closed datasets curated internally by Big Tech corp labs (such as Google’s ALIGN 1.7B/ALIGN 6.6B, JFT-5B, & OpenAI’s WebImageText-WIT. 5/
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Abeba Birhane
Abeba Birhane@Abebab·
“Scrape-first-ask-questions-later” data filtering culture, generating plausibly illegal gargantuan datasets & models has elicited a slew of copyright lawsuits, enmasse fetishization of women’s bodies, outright ban of model outputs from forums & marquee of poor quality datasets 7/
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Roel Dobbe @roeldobbe@akademienl.social
Roel Dobbe @[email protected]@roeldobbe·
Deeply disturbing insights from @algorithmwatch's newsletter: The C4 data set, which is used to train large language models such as ChatGPT, is extremely biased towards seeing AI as a super-intelligence over what it is - (part of) a socio-technical system.
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Sarah Myers West
Sarah Myers West@sarahbmyers·
The effects of concentration in compute and AI are profound and mutually reinforcing, leading to toxic competition and chokepoints across the tech stack. Read more in AI Now's comment to the FTC here, drawing on forthcoming work led by @JaaiVipra: ainowinstitute.org/publication/po…
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Ethan Mollick
Ethan Mollick@emollick·
You really, really should not be relying on AI detectors for classroom use. This new paper shows that not only are they very easy to defeat by just prompting a couple of times, but they have insane false-positive rates against non-native English speakers. arxiv.org/abs/2304.02819
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Sarah Myers West
Sarah Myers West@sarahbmyers·
I strongly agree w concerns about the concentration of AI power, but disagree that open source AI provides respite. In many respects increased corporate control has happened not in spite of OSS but through capturing it. More soon on this from @davidthewid @mer__edith and me.
Kevin Bankston@KevinBankston

We should work to avoid a similar single point of failure through concentration of AI power with the same cloud companies. Open source AI can help with that...

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Tim Hwang
Tim Hwang@timhwang·
this kind of smart, walkable, mixed-use urbanism is illegal to build in most american cities
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