Do you feel like this summer has brought just unending terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone! The time has come, yet again, for Emily and Alex to clear out the poison, purge some backlog, and take a journey through AI hell.
From surveillance of emotions...to continued hype around using 'AI' to automate the scientific process. But also, more promising, signs that people can see that the AI emperor is indeed without clothes.
Fresh AI Hell:
Synthetic data for Hollywood's test screenings
NaNoWriMo's AI fail
- But AI is built on classist expl
... show moreDo you feel like this summer has brought just unending terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone! The time has come, yet again, for Emily and Alex to clear out the poison, purge some backlog, and take a journey through AI hell.
From surveillance of emotions...to continued hype around using 'AI' to automate the scientific process. But also, more promising, signs that people can see that the AI emperor is indeed without clothes.
Fresh AI Hell:
Synthetic data for Hollywood's test screenings
NaNoWriMo's AI fail
- But AI is built on classist exploitation
- NaNoWriMo is sponsored by an AI writing company
- NaNoWriMo's AI writing sponsor still creates bad writing
Company's AI assistant starts rickrolling customers
Programming LLMs with "fiduciary duty"
Canva increasing prices thank to "AI" features
Ad spending by AI companies
Clearview AI hit with largest GDPR fine yet, Dutch regulator considers holding execs personally liable
'AI detection' in schools harming neurodivergent kids
CS prof proudly stating unethical use of ChatGPT in the Atlantic
College recruiter chatbot can't "discuss politics"
"The AI-Powered Nonprofits Reimagining Education"
Teaching AI at art schools
Professors' 'AI twin' chatbots as teaching assistants
A teacherless AI classroom
Another 'AI Scientist'
LLMs still biased against African American English
AI "enhances" photo of Black people into photo of white-appearing people
Eric Schmidt says go ahead and steal data, write apps with ChatGPT
The environmental cost of Google's "AI Overviews"
A "Grand Challenge" for AI in climate and environment -- brought to you by Jeff Bezos
What I found in an AI-company's e-waste
Musk's xAI accused of worsening Memphise smog with unauthorized gas turbines at data center
Smile surveillance of workers
Rail carrier used AI for "emotion recognition" of passengers
Chatbot-generated harassment scenario reveals real harassment victim's personal information
AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity
Survey says: "AI" in a product description makes people want to purchase it less
Is tripe kosher? It depends on the religion of the cow.
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Music: Toby Menon.
Production: Christie Taylor.
Graphic Design: Naomi Pleasure-Park.
ugh. I picked up a shitty NUC from ewaste and it had a label on it for an AI company.
ahh, another startup that burnt out trying to build some silly AI project on crap hardware. I wonder what they did? I check their URL:
ahh. healthcare. great, great.
Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.
Bryan Robinson, Ph.D. (Forbes)
