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Associate Professor of Literature and Digital Cultures. European University Cyprus. GenAI-curious.
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Yet another interesting essay from our November issue: @jamesmackaycyp.bsky.social and Polina Mackay share on the practice of creating cut-ups with commercial AI electronicbookreview.com/essay/experi...

submitted 78 days ago • 0 comments

"AI is an automated amplifier of social norms and assumptions" - well put by Selena Savić, speaking at "Rethinking the Inevitability of AI" conference today. Such a productive series of talks.

submitted 79 days ago • 0 comments

Good to see ebr on here!

submitted 79 days ago • 1 comment

Interesting piece on the non takeup of GenAI by educators. This is a group that has been heavily targeted by edutech startups, yet they clearly don't see any huge benefit. www.criticalinkling.com/p/students-u...

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Fascinating. “Given the general sentiment about AI, scraping the web for content and the disintermediating of content creators, it’s not hard to imagine enterprising individuals adding ‘David Mayer’ …to their own content or website in an effort to make it disappear from ChatGPT’s output.” 👀

submitted 83 days ago • 0 comments

It seems that someone called David Mayer has succeeded in bringing OpenAI to heel. It's impossible to get the chatbot to generate that name.

submitted 85 days ago • 1 comment

This isn't true. In fact, only the part of the Internet curated by algorithm will fill up w/ slop. Human curated databases (libraries) are just fine, and still full of wonderful art. It's just that we've all got so used to having a machine do our thinking for us, and now we need #criticalAI skills.

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"Not a single Whitehall department has registered the use of AI systems since the government said it would become mandatory, prompting warnings that the public sector is “flying blind” about the deployment of algorithmic technology affecting millions of lives." www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

submitted 87 days ago • 1 comment

Very reassuring piece. Though I'm not sure that "2% of global energy use" is all that minimal.

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

A huge number of my followers describe themselves as AI artists and/or have feeds mostly filed with #AIart generated pictures. I would love to hear from any of you about what you find creatively satisfying about #GenAI art. Why do you enjoy doing this?

submitted 87 days ago • 0 comments

Has a political party anywhere in the world ever won a democratic election with manifesto promising to cut services while raising taxes? (Honestly curious, and it's tricky to research.)

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

This is only a light little article, but it's the first time I've seen anyone in mainstream media talk about Ethiopian perspectives on Western charity drives. www.theguardian.com/music/2024/n...

submitted 89 days ago • 0 comments

Some observations from Digital Forms: The Long and Short of It, an interdisciplinary enquiry into length as a feature of the digital. I'll concentrate on digital cultures and #GenAI, though a lot more was discussed.

submitted 91 days ago • 1 comment

If you want to feel the lovely warm glow of human connection, go read the comments under the AI generated Coca Cola advert. "Uncanny" "Disturbing" "Dead," not to mention "Made me a lifelong Pepsi fan." youtu.be/IQWUKWM2JrQ?...

submitted 93 days ago • 0 comments

today! #AI #philosophy #empiricism #cogsci #DeepLearning

submitted 94 days ago • 0 comments

Got to admit, I'm genuinely shocked at how good ChatGPT has got at generating poetry. Even a few months ago, it was still insistent on making poems rhyme and iterative promptinh was needed. I mean, this isn't a "great" poem. But it's also far from terrible. chatgpt.com/share/673dc8...

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Recent research shows that #learning from #AI #feedback is not automatic. Furthermore, despite its individual-level benefits, AI feedback can have significant population-level downsides including loss of intellectual #diversity and an increasing #skills gap. #FutureOfWork arxiv.org/abs/2409.18660

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

Each of these documents is 10,000-15,000 words long. I've spent today proofing, standardising, cross checking them all. I'd have gone mad if it wasn't for Ants Canada videos on Youtube (www.youtube.com/@AntsCanada) (PS Ignore the absolutely insane nesting folders - it's been a long couple of weeks)

submitted 97 days ago • 0 comments

I finally saw snails mating today... such a bizarre process.

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