what's actually wrong with 'AI'
it's become impossible to ignore the discourse around so-called 'AI'. but while the bulk of the discourse is saturated with nonsense such as, i wanted to pool some resources to get a good sense of what this technology actually is, its limitations and its broad consequences.
what is 'AI'
the best essay to learn about what i mentioned above is On the Dangers of Stochastic Parrots: Can Language Models Be Too Big? this essay cost two of its collaborators to be fired from Google. it frames what large-language models are, what they can and cannot do and the actual risks they entail: not some 'super-intelligence' that we keep hearing about but concrete dangers: from climate, the quality of the training data and biases - both from the training data and from us, the users.
The problem with artificial intelligence? It’s neither artificial nor intelligent
How the machine ‘thinks’: Understanding opacity in machine learning algorithms
The Values Encoded in Machine Learning Research
Troubling Trends in Machine Learning Scholarship: Some ML papers suffer from flaws that could mislead the public and stymie future research
AI Now Institute 2023 Landscape report (discussions of the power imbalance in Big Tech)
ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web
Can we truly benefit from AI?
Inside the secret list of websites that make AI like ChatGPT sound smart
The Steep Cost of Capture
labor
'AI' champions the facade of non-human involvement. but the truth is that this is a myth that serves employers by underpaying the hidden workers, denying them labor rights and social benefits - as well as hyping-up their product. the effects on workers are not only economic but detrimental to their health - both mental and physical.
OpenAI Used Kenyan Workers on Less Than $2 Per Hour to Make ChatGPT Less Toxic
also from the Times: Inside Facebook's African Sweatshop
The platform as factory: Crowdwork and the hidden labour behind artificial intelligence
The humans behind Mechanical Turk’s artificial intelligence
The rise of 'pseudo-AI': how tech firms quietly use humans to do bots' work
The real aim of big tech's layoffs: bringing workers to heel
The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence
workers surveillance
5 ways Amazon monitors its employees, from AI cameras to hiring a spy agency
Computer monitoring software is helping companies spy on their employees to measure their productivity – often without their consent
theft of art and content
Artists say AI image generators are copying their style to make thousands of new images — and it's completely out of their control (what gives me most hope about regulators dealing with theft is Getty images' lawsuit - unfortunately individuals simply don't have the same power as the corporation)
Copyright won't solve creators' Generative AI problem
The real aim of big tech's layoffs: bringing workers to heel
The Exploited Labor Behind Artificial Intelligence
AI is already taking video game illustrators’ jobs in China
Microsoft lays off team that taught employees how to make AI tools responsibly/As the company accelerates its push into AI products, the ethics and society team is gone
150 African Workers for ChatGPT, TikTok and Facebook Vote to Unionize at Landmark Nairobi Meeting
Inside the AI Factory: the Humans that Make Tech Seem Human
Refugees help power machine learning advances at Microsoft, Facebook, and Amazon
Amazon’s AI Cameras Are Punishing Drivers for Mistakes They Didn’t Make
China’s AI boom depends on an army of exploited student interns
political, social, ethical consequences
Afraid of AI? The startups selling it want you to be
An Indigenous Perspective on Generative AI
“Computers enable fantasies” – On the continued relevance of Weizenbaum’s warnings
‘Utopia for Whom?’: Timnit Gebru on the dangers of Artificial General Intelligence
Machine Bias
HUMAN_FALLBACK
AI Ethics Are in Danger. Funding Independent Research Could Help
AI Is Tearing Wikipedia Apart
AI machines aren’t ‘hallucinating’. But their makers are
The Great A.I. Hallucination (podcast)
“Sorry in Advance!” Rapid Rush to Deploy Generative A.I. Risks a Wide Array of Automated Harms
The promise and peril of generative AI
ChatGPT Users Report Being Able to See Random People's Chat Histories
Benedetta Brevini on the AI sublime bubble – and how to pop it
Eating Disorder Helpline Disables Chatbot for 'Harmful' Responses After Firing Human Staff
AI moderation is no match for hate speech in Ethiopian languages
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other tech companies are in a 'frenzy' to help ICE build its own data-mining tool for targeting unauthorized workers
Crime Prediction Software Promised to Be Free of Biases. New Data Shows It Perpetuates Them
The EU AI Act is full of Significance for Insurers
Proxy Discrimination in the Age of Artificial Intelligence and Big Data
Welfare surveillance system violates human rights, Dutch court rules
Federal use of A.I. in visa applications could breach human rights, report says
Open (For Business): Big Tech, Concentrated Power, and the Political Economy of Open AI
Generative AI Is Making Companies Even More Thirsty for Your Data
environment
The Generative AI Race Has a Dirty Secret
Black boxes, not green: Mythologizing artificial intelligence and omitting the environment
Energy and Policy Considerations for Deep Learning in NLP
AINOW: Climate Justice & Labor Rights
militarism
The Growing Global Spyware Industry Must Be Reined In
AI: the key battleground for Cold War 2.0?
‘Machines set loose to slaughter’: the dangerous rise of military AI
AI: The New Frontier of the EU's Border Extranalisation Strategy
The A.I. Surveillance Tool DHS Uses to Detect ‘Sentiment and Emotion’
organizations
AI now
DAIR
podcast episodes
Pretty Heady Stuff: Dru Oja Jay & James Steinhoff guide us through the hype & hysteria around AI
Tech Won't Save Us: Why We Must Resist AI w/ Dan McQuillan, Why AI is a Threat to Artists w/ Molly Crabapple, ChatGPT is Not Intelligent w/ Emily M. Bender
SRSLY WRONG: Artificial Intelligence part 1, part 2
The Dig: AI Hype Machine w/ Meredith Whittaker, Ed Ongweso, and Sarah West
This Machine Kills: The Triforce of Corporate Power in AI w/ ft. Sarah Myers West
