The Deutsche Telekom video reminding parents not to share photos of their child on social media is powerful. With all the research I’ve done into deepfakes over the past months it feels overwhelmingly important to boost awareness of online misuse and abuse of online content…
This goes for everything you’re sharing.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WZ_k0vUDM
Tagged: Akkoma
If there is a word for it at least I know I'm not the only one. 😊. Hello all my fellow hurkle-durklers.
#HurkleDurkle
The reason I recommend @duckduckgo as your default search engine is not only about privacy.
Did you know that DuckDuckGo can transfer your query to many thousands of different, subject-specific online search engines?
This could be Google, Wikipedia, IMDB or beyond that: media, forums, shopping or research sites. Or even XKCD.
You control where the search ends up… with a !bang.
https://axbom.com/duckduckgo-bangs/
#Privacy #SearchEngine
@potungthul
Thanks. Yes, I have been working with digital accessibility for 20 years now. It's important to me to lead by example. And I'm happy the Fediverse supports these long image descriptions.
@shimriez
«Automation often unfolds in unexpected ways. Erik Duhaime, CEO of medical-data-annotation company Centaur Labs, recalled how, several years ago, prominent machine-learning engineers were predicting AI would make the job of radiologist obsolete.
When that didn’t happen, conventional wisdom shifted to radiologists using AI as a tool. Neither of those is quite what he sees occurring.
AI is very good at specific tasks, Duhaime said, and that leads work to be broken up and distributed across a system of specialized algorithms and to equally specialized humans.
An AI system might be capable of spotting cancer, he said, giving a hypothetical example, but only in a certain type of imagery from a certain type of machine; so now, you need a human to check that the AI is being fed the right type of data and maybe another human who checks its work before passing it to another AI that writes a report, which goes to another human, and so on.
“AI doesn’t replace work,” he said. “But it does change how work is organized.”»
https://www.theverge.com/features/23764584/ai-artificial-intelligence-data-notation-labor-scale-surge-remotasks-openai-chatbots
#AIHype
@mensrea
This is so good it actually is painful to read.
My favorite humoristic take on design controlled by clients is "Designing the Stop Sign". It really highlights the need to recognise and say no to detrimental design.
Of course, in the future clients will just use AI to get what they want.
And the kicker is that the AI won't say no.
Imagine the many messes that will need to be taken care of.
This video is 14(!) years old now.
https://youtu.be/Wac3aGn5twc
#AIHype #StopSign
”And Mr. Hunt, the next time you go on holiday, please be good enough to let us know where you're going.”
”If I let you know where I’m going… then I won’t be on holiday.”
Good insight.
#MI2
@shimriez Tack snälla! 🙏
#SV
– Vad gjorde du första dagen på semestern Per?
– Jag skrev replik på en debattartikel i SvD.
– Om vadå?
– [tyst en stund…] Ahem. AI.
Nu ligger den på nätet.
"Det är inte skrivet i sten att AI:s fördelar kommer överträffa nackdelarna. Det är därför regleringar behövs, för att säkerställa en riktning som mildrar skada och skapar nytta för flertalet, inte fåtalet, skriver Per Axbom i en replik."
https://www.svd.se/a/dwQEkA/per-axbom-reglering-av-ai-ar-ett-maste
#AiEtik #DigitalEtik #DigitalOmtanke
The way I can actually edit my posts here, change wording, add links, update images, etceteras, puts me in control of my social media / microblog in the same way that I am in control of my regular blog.
This truly feels like the way it should always have been.
(I am aware that my changes may not propagate to all servers in the fediverse, but I am at least in control over my own ”original”)
#Fediverse
@pauldaoust
To be fair that is more of an intentionally provocative number, as OpenAI won't disclose energy use. There are estimates claiming that one ChatGPT query costs (in money) 100x more than a Google search, or consumes 10x as much energy. And one ChatGPT session, to get the response you want, can be estimated at 10 prompts.
But in the end there are many examples of things that can be done in more environmentally friendly ways. For example, writing a speech for a wedding. There's a lof of that going around now. Another way to write a speech for a wedding is pen and paper, and from the heart 😊
More on carbon costs here:
https://axbom.com/aielements/#carbon-costs
@Cleopatra
I understand what you mean, with a caveat: how would you use it without harming those who were already harmed during the development of the AI?
I agree that AI is not intrinsically bad (it *is* a tool), but the examples we are seeing today of how they are manufactured in dangerous ways and designed to mislead contributes to negative impact. This means that you can't dismiss harms by saying that it's *just* a tool.
@brooklynman From having to think… 😬
The EU AI Act addresses high-risk AI.
Consider an AI that assists someone who is visually impaired by describing what is in front if them (by taking a picture or using a live feed from ”smart glasses”).
This can be lifechanging. But also, when deployed using a model like GPT-4 that often gets things wrong, extremely dangerous.
As the Wired article points out: ”If an AI gets a description wrong by misidentifying medication, for example, it could have life-threatening consequences.”
The tool may not, just like ChatGPT, disclose level of certainty to help the user make an informed decision based on the output,
The million-dollar question is this: would an image-to-audio description tool be categorized as high-risk?
https://www.wired.com/story/ai-gpt4-could-change-how-blind-people-see-the-world/
#AiEthics
@brooklynman
Yeah I agree with your point. I’d say my main concern is that the statement itself removes accountability and consideration for the bigger picture effects. Saying something is just a tool creates the faulty mental model of all tools having interchangeable qualities frrom an ethical perspective, which simply isn’t true.
Which is just me repeating what you just said. 😂
The word to watch out for is ”just”. If we instead said ”it’s a tool” that would make more sense. The word ”just” is there to shed accountability.
I’m considering how the technocratic belief that AI will save us all is related to a defense mechanism wherein one avoids acknowledging the harm technology has also contributed to.
It is easier to double down on a future where technology turns out to be the savior after all, rather than face a reality where you have to deal with harms done by something you have been promoting as a force for good all along,
@rm4
Thanks, yeah Soapbox is mentioned and linked in the blog post. There are quite a few that aren't in the infographic but are mentioned in the blog post. Fitting them all in the diagram would make it overly complicated I believe.
Not even the software I'm using myself (Akkoma) is in the diagram. I don't use Mastodon.
If a service becomes especially relevant to add to the infographic due to sudden growth or media coverage I'll consider adding it to the infographic. But I always welcome new ones that can be added to the associated blog post.
https://axbom.com/fediverse/
@samuel @konstellationen
Skriver ju mycket om digital etik och ansvarsfull innovation. Dock 85% på engelska. 😊