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CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
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.”
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-swift…
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
I'm really nerding out on this great critical history of GenAI in @CriticalAI : read.dukeupress.edu/critical…
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.
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
Sneak preview of an article about Eryk’s, Caro’s and my work — to be published soon in @CriticalAI
criticalai.org/2025/01/17/sn…
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
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.
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/consultati…
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
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
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-ai-t…
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CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
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
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
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-r…
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
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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CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
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.
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CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
AI policy is, at present, way too dependent on a cooperating executive branch. Part of this trend was pragmatic (ie agencies hold the tech expertise, legislation is slow & difficult, etc), but it's exhausting to reset & re-strategize at the start of every new administration.
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
Pleased to be named a ✨Global AI & Market Power Fellow ✨ by the European AI & Society Fund, with $68k to support my work on corporate capture in AI, alongside a fantastically brilliant cohort of other fellows:
europeanaifund.org/newspubli…
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
Are we still pretending this is "news", at this point?
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
If you're taking away from last week's searchGPT hype that Google's dominance is on it's way out, AI Now's @Kabakab in @techpolicypress refocuses our attention to the entrenched (and interlinked) structural advantages Google holds across AI and search markets
Does generative AI mean Google’s search dominance on its way out? Pressure from AI companies would have us think so - but @kabakab argues in @techpolicypress that in the DOJ case Google’s advantages in search & AI remain the elephant in the room: techpolicy.press/the-elephan…
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
I wrote about the origins of modern computation tracing to enslaved labor, the influence this has on what we call “AI," and how this helps highlight some limits of Silicon Valley narratives that insist the tech sector is escaping capitalism
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
My friends Shahzad, Marco, Helen & I canvassed in PA yesterday. It was actually fun...One of the most effective things we can do is canvassing: To connect with Pennsylvania Democrats: mobilize.us/padems/
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
🔥 Reminder: AI systems are NOT neutral; they will reflect the ideology of their creators (as with any technology). Critical thinking remains an ESSENTIAL skill.
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
Just a reminder that the US Bill of Rights (1791) is also 94% AI generated. Show this to people who trust the reliability of AI detection tools.
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
The most creative Halloween costumes ever 🧵
1. 'Carrie Halloween costume
CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ retweeted
NEW: We dove deep into X's "Community Notes" fact-checking program to see how it's faring against a tide of election misinformation, drawing on our own analysis & independent research.
The verdict: It's an ingenious idea that is, at this crucial moment, completely overmatched.
