However you feel about AI, it's a big part of the modern software landscape. @ProPublica is hiring a two-year AI engineering fellow in collaboration with @lenfestinstitute. We're not cheerleaders or naysayers; we want to explore ways that it might support the newsroom, while remaining anchored […] - ThreadSky

ben.werd.social.ap.brid.gy • 6 days ago

However you feel about AI, it's a big part of the modern software landscape.

https://newsie.social/@ProPublica is hiring a two-year AI engineering fellow in collaboration with https://mas.to/@lenfestinstitute.

We're not cheerleaders or naysayers; we want to explore ways that it might support the newsroom, while remaining anchored […]

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ceejaa.bsky.social•6 days ago

AI is a marketing term.

nikclayton.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@ben https://newsie.social/@ProPublica https://mas.to/@lenfestinstitute

> Send us a tool, application, or script you’ve built that uses AI or machine learning. [...] We’re interested in your technical skill, but also in how you think about usability, ethics, and real-world impact.

The ethical choice is to not use AI.

Can I have […]

j12t.j12t.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@ben https://newsie.social/@ProPublica The difficult thing about AI is that while the tech / math is really cool, it's been used (like so much other tech, but maybe more so) in not so good ways by powerful people with an agenda that's not necessarily good for the rest of us. Witness copyright, addiction etc etc […]

csolisr.hub.azkware.net.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

The very first order of work would be to rely on free cultural works, consensually released, as the source of training - projects such as #CommonCorpus being a step in the right direction. Anything else is a copyright nightmare in the making, not even considering the ethical implications on […]

Beeks.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy•5 days ago

@ben https://newsie.social/@ProPublica https://mas.to/@lenfestinstitute just adding my displeasure to the pile.

jamesbritt.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@ben https://newsie.social/@ProPublica https://mas.to/@lenfestinstitute

You cannot "explore ways that it might support the newsroom" without being ok with the rampant plagerism that feeds it and the climate-changing energy needs that sustain it.

You cannot possibly be so ignorant of this, so stop bullshitting. It's a very bad […]

zecretzquirrel.bsky.social•6 days ago

That is unsubstantiated horseshit. The "modern software landscape" is not defined by "big tech".

aprilfollies.mastodon.online.ap.brid.gy•6 days ago

@ben https://newsie.social/@ProPublica https://mas.to/@lenfestinstitute How can “AI” (LLMs, I presume) be “strongly adhering to our values” when its content primarily consists of the digested plagiarized writings of others - including news articles - to the extent that many news organizations are suing? […]

penguins18.bsky.social•6 days ago

An LLM is just free labor. That’s it.

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