@sy Thanks, would it be okay to add this as a comment to the post?
It's good to give the complete picture of how different tools will fare on different prompts. The uncertainty of what tool will be able to do what is an important insight.
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Generative AI can not generate its way out of prejudice
The concept of "generative" suggests that the tool can produce what it is asked to produce. In a study uncovering how stereotypical global health tropes are embedded in AI image generators, researchers found it challenging to generate images of Black doctors treating white children. They used Midjourney, a tool that after hundreds of attempts would not generate an output matching the prompt. I tried their experiment with Stable Diffusion's free web version and found it every bit as concerning as you might imagine.
https://axbom.com/generative-prejudice/
#AIEthics #DigitalEthics
@mia Thanks, fixed it now in the online version (it went out as a newsletter as well đ
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This is a typo that several people have reached out about now, haha.
Generative AI can not generate its way out of prejudice
The concept of "generative" suggests that the tool can produce what it is asked to produce. In a study uncovering how stereotypical global health tropes are embedded in AI image generators, researchers found it challenging to generate images of Black doctors treating white children. They used Midjourney, a tool that after hundreds of attempts would not generate an output matching the prompt. I tried their experiment with Stable Diffusion's free web version and found it every bit as concerning as you might imagine.
https://axbom.com/generative-prejudice/
#AIEthics #DigitalEthics
If your concern is that humans are standing in the way of technological progress, your understanding of the purpose of tech should perhaps be the subject of consideration.
@isotopp Thanks for the quick feedback! đ
Quick sketch of an AI being trained on only bits of the world. Makes sense?
"I dagslÀget finns inget beslut om att Skatteverket ska köpa in Microsoft 365 och Teams. Vi har pÄbörjat en undersökning om införande och anvÀndande", sÀger Peter Nordström, sektionschef pÄ Skatteverket.
Det finns alltsÄ inget beslut om att Skatteverket ska börja anvÀnda Teams. Man har pÄbörjat en utredning som inte Àr klar Ànnu. Detta kan man lÀsa i Skatteverkets eget pressmeddelande frÄn 1 mars.
ĂndĂ„ skriver flera tidningar som om Skatteverkets "beslut" har förĂ€ndrat synen pĂ„ myndigheters anvĂ€ndning av amerikanska molntjĂ€nster. Och de som sĂ€ljer tjĂ€nsterna drar förstĂ„s stora vĂ€xlar pĂ„ detta.
Som vanligt Àr det bra med lugn och is i magen. Och att lÀsa underlaget. Utredningen finns att ladda ner. Och det som utretts hittills Àr en tillÀmpning med kraftiga begrÀnsningar. Bland annat skriver man i sin egen utredning att det inte finns "reell möjlighet att utöva sitt arkivansvar enligt 4 § arkivlagen, om Skatteverket övergÄr till M365Apps, Teams och Entra ID".
Det som kanske fascinerar mig mest, eftersom jag intresserar mig för mÀnniskans interaktion med it-system, Àr hur Skatteverket förÀndrat sin syn pÄ hur lÀtt det Àr att styra vilken information myndighetens medarbetare delar i dessa verktyg.
2021: Skatteverket bedömer att det inte kommer vara möjligt för myndigheten att skriva bestÀmmelser som tydliggör för alla deras 12 000 anstÀllda exakt vilken information de fÄr och inte fÄr dela i ett Teams-möte.
2024: Skatteverket sÀger att de Àr medvetna om att det finns risk för att personuppgifter i slutÀndan kan hamna hos amerikanska myndigheter. För att hantera det Àmnar Skatteverket ge medarbetarna instruktioner om vilken information som kan/fÄr delges under olika typer av Teams-möten och i olika funktioner.
"I de delar av Teams, till exempel chatten och externa möten dĂ€r det inte Ă€r möjligt att anvĂ€nda E2EE-kryptering kommer medarbetarna instrueras att inte behandla sekretesskyddade uppgifter" â Citat frĂ„n Bilaga 3, Analys av Microsoft Teams
NĂ€sta steg blir att fundera över, och kanske utreda, hur medborgares förtroende för Skatteverket pĂ„verkas av det ena eller andra synsĂ€ttet â och framtida vĂ€gval.
Skatteverkets pressmeddelande med lÀnkar till utredningen och dess bilagor: https://skatteverket.se/omoss/pressochmedia/nyheter/2024/nyheter/skatteverketspreliminarabedomningavmolntjanster.5.2fb39afe18dabf1e4d21f7f.html
I have now started reading Joseph Weizenbaumâs increasingly relevant book from 1976, âComputer Power and Human Reason: From Judgment to Calculationâ.
I expected to like it but 23 pages in I can already say I love it. On page 23 he quotes Hannah Arendt about recent makers and executors of policy in the Pentagon:
âThey were not just intelligent, but prided themselves on being ârationalâ⊠They were eager to find formulas, preferably expressed in a pseudo-mathematical language, that would unify the most disparate phenomena with which reality presented them; that is, they were eager to discover *laws* by which to explain and predict political and historical facts as though they were as necessary, and thus as reliable, as the physicists once believed natural phenomena to be⊠[They] did not *judge*; they calculated⊠an utterly irrational confidence in the calculability of reality [became] the leitmotif of the decision making.â
@deadsuperhero @BeAware
Glad someone else is testing with Akkoma. I couldn't find the account either.
@danhon Good evening.
@dkmj They had a lot of first-mover advantage and of course have always been children of their time... My perhaps biggest criticism is an unwillingness to grow, acknowledge missteps and to listen to other voices, even as they preach how important it is to make those voices heard. This is an interesting one on Norman:
https://www.fastcompany.com/90868431/the-problem-with-don-norman
I've personally found Norman better at reasoning around potential weaknesses in his own thinking (I've interviewed him twice) but then slowly realised that he never acts on that seemingly sensible reasoning. In his later writings he is essentially saying that he got a lot of his early stuff wrong, but when doubling down on a flavor of co-creation and 'reinventing design education' I haven't seen examples of bringing that thinking to his own practice.
Nielsen's work I've always had a hard time understanding why people latch on to. So much of it is oversimplification and bold assertions based on data that is rarely supporting the exact conclusion he makes. I also take issue with how often he talks about IQ in ableist ways, which definitely biases me against him.
@dkmj That would be awesome. đ
@devolute
Haha, that is exactly how I felt on the Thursday that I read it. "This will break my Friday planning...", and it did. Thanks for sharing!
It's sometimes good to remember that many people have been debunking several
of Nielsen's assertions about usability for more than two decades. Not least the one about only needing to test with five users.
Here's a good study from 2001 (yes, 23 years ago) about page load times. By Christine Perfetti and Lori Landesman.
Remember when Amazon took 36 seconds to load over a 56kbps modem?
https://web.archive.org/web/20130501084018/http://www.uie.com/events/roadshow/articles/download_time/
#ux #uxdesign
More recent, but still 12 years ago...
https://www.wired.com/2012/04/why-jakob-nielsen-is-wrong-about-mobile-websites/
En presschef pĂ„ en myndighet kan inte lĂ€mna ut sms till en pĂ„gĂ„ende utredning för att dessa Ă€r raderade. Som skĂ€l har presschefen angett att de tog för mycket plats pĂ„ hans telefon. LĂ„t oss rĂ€kna pĂ„ det âĄ
1 sms = i genomsnitt 0,2 kB
1 foto = i genomsnitt 2,5 MB (lÄgt rÀknat)
Det gÄr i detta exempel 12 500 sms pÄ ett foto.
Om du skickar 10 sms i jobbet varje dag sÄ Àr det 3 650 sms pÄ ett Är.
För att frigöra lika mycket utrymme som upptas av ett enstaka foto mÄste du dÄ radera sms över en period pÄ tre och ett halvt Är.
En typisk minnesstorlek pÄ en modern telefon Àr 64 gigabyte. Om 5% av det utrymmet (alltsÄ 3,2 GB) togs upp av sms sÄ skulle det motsvara 16 miljoner sms. Eller mer Àn fyra tusen Ärs sms:ande om man skickar 10 per dag.
Ja, du fattar. Att radera just sms för att spara utrymme Àr inte den bÀsta anvÀndningen av din tid.
En förmildrande omstÀndighet skulle kunna vara om presschefen Àr tilldelad en Philips Fizz frÄn 1996 som tjÀnstetelefon. Jag föreslÄr dÄ en uppgradering.
@ElleGray I applaud your image description. đ
Looking at complaints can be one way of surfacing pain points in a workflow. Often used by designers as input for customer journey maps.
But you also need to consider who is behind the complaint, who feels comfortable complaining and who is not given an opportunity to complain.
If you don't know what I mean by "not given an opportunity to complain", I'd urge you to read more about privilege, oppression and social norms.
@datarama I've just added it to my Kobo reader. Next in line to read.
@datarama Hard agree.