So yeah I get the sentiment of protecting protestors from identification, but they did not think this through. If images of human rights abuse are to be AI-generated, how is there possibly any trust left?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/may/02/amnesty-international-ai-generated-images-criticism
#AIHype #AIEthics #DigitalEthics
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It always bothered me that âEvil geniusâ is never considered to be an oxymoron.
The phrase says a lot about a dominant rationalist view of intelligence. And an apparently reasoned dismissal of compassion as evidence of wisdom.
Anyway. Carry on. The sheer number of smart devices in my home is making me question why they havenât gotten rid of me yet.
#AIHype
Somewhere in Silicon Valley there is a playbook that says to launch your product with some glaring privacy issues.
After 2 months of objection fix an issue with the code you've already written for it. You will get good press and this keeps the media and activists busy - so they won't be talking as much about much bigger problems with your product.
When this time has passed the news cycle will start leaving you alone and move on to someone else. Likely someone with a glaring privacy issue.
Efficient.
Inefficient.
Fast.
Slow.
These are not competing concepts. We are always in a dance involving both. Listening. Adapting. Adjusting. Taking action. So when inhuman efficiency becomes the only North Star we miss all the signs, proceeding to crash and burn.
Do > Do > Do > Do > đ±đ„
Do > Observe > Think > đ„°đ
Inefficiency is a truly misleading word. In many cases it can be replaced with thoroughness.
@complexical
Thank you Rachel! I agree many of us are aware but that we also tend to forget to regularly reason around the many implications of this situation. Iâve found that when I produce illustrative models I also encourage more people understand the inherent risks. Iâm imagining, for example, that many users of LinkedIn donât consider how they are âtalkingâ to the algorithm by liking, commenting, watching or even just âhoveringâ(!) over someone elseâs post.
I also use them in teaching of course, and itâs always fun to see how models trigger creative output when discussing them in educational settings.
@petermedvind
Hej Péter, brukar inte vara sÄ hÀr pÄflugen men nÀr jag ser nÄgon jobba med litterÀr översÀttning kan jag inte lÄta bli att dela min C-uppsats frÄn 1994. Mest för att tala om att det Àr ett intresse jag har :)
https://axbom.se/dom/
Had an idea and am now working on a Communication Model for Algorithm-Reinforced Feedback in Digital Social Networks.
Because what else would I be doing on a Saturday morning? đ
My hope is to illustrate (in a write-up) how much the receiver of a message is in fact communicating with an algorithm, and how the sender of a message becomes incentivized to encourage human-to-computer communication rather than human-to-human communication.
#DigitalEthics #CommunicationScience #SocialNetworking
I love reading The Continent. I highly recommend it for perspectives from African journalists. You can subscribe to it for free on WhatsApp, Telegram and Signal.
Text of attached image from todaysâs issue of The Continent:
NAMIBIA. Another small fragment of stolen Africa returned.
Finland this week handed back fragments of a sacred Namibian stone that was desecrated by two Finns in 1886.
The two, a missionary and a geologist, saw a stone in northern Namibia that no one was allowed to touch but chipped at it, ostensibly because they wanted to know if it was a meteorite. The fragments eventually passed on to the National Museum of Finland and will now go to the National Museum of Namibia.
Africans have yet to go to Europe and desecrate important sites out of curiosity.
Not that theyâd get visas.
I feel like I may have started developing an allergy to ChatGPT-generated texts.
They're most easily recognized by 3-5 paragraphs of generic, emotionless text where the final paragraph starts with something like "Lastly", "Finally" or "In conclusion".
It's like I'm back in 5th grade English class. My allergic reaction manifests itself as me closing my laptop lid, hard, and then screaming for 3-4 minutes.
#AIHype #ChatGPT
ChatGPT Àr trÀnad pÄ en stor mÀngd fördomsfull data, vet inte vad sanning Àr och kan garanterat inte pÄ ett medvetet sÀtt resonera om könsstereotyper. Det borde inte komma som en överraskning. Trots det sÄ har illusionen av intelligens fÄtt fotfÀste hos mÄnga som, av förklarliga skÀl, vÀljer att anvÀnda denna sprÄkmodell som nÄgon form av orakel och bÀrare av visdom. TillÄt mig illustrera varför ett högt förtroende för de hÀr verktygen Àr direkt farligt, med ett par konkreta exempel.
https://axbom.se/chatgpt-och-sjukskoterskor/
@sintrenton
I've tried BigBlueButton a couple of times but found it a bit cumbersome and bloated for my needs.
What are you all using for online meetings and teaching in terms of video service? In line with avoiding big tech I mean?
I've been using Whereby (Norwegian) for years but have found it becoming less and less reliable.
Aware of Jitsi and BigBlueButton but I thought this would be a perfect space for asking around as I will definitely have missed some interesting players. I also run my own @owncast server for specific live events.
#Indieweb #SmallTech
Thinking of some ways digitalisation has been causing problems in the workplace over the past decades.
1. Doing things in the same ways and in the same timeframe, just now with computers. Computers that require passwords and power and where data sometimes gets lost, or stolen by bad actors half-way across the planet.
2. Making things in one workarea easier with computers â leading to layoffs. People who fail to learn the new system in a given time are laid off. The people left have to work just as hard as before, just now with twice the output and fewer colleagues. So they quit in the end as well. Better to hire someone who can't remember any better. Firing and hiring comes with costs, but it's another budget post so the connection is invisible, or vague at best.
3. Making things easier in one workarea that simultaneously increases the workload for someone else, because increasing the output capacity in one location doesn't automatically increase the input capacity somewhere else.
4. Doing things in more timeconsuming ways, because computers manifest new opportunities for collecting data and adding strict rules of access and operations that remove any flexibility that was there before.
The good news is that by making bad systems we have now created new problems that we can spend time solving tomorrow.
In the latest episode of Carefully â about voice clones â I had a clone for my voice do a part of the audio. Itâs similar but not perfect. And it would be interesting to hear how easily listeners can catch what part it is. The episode is 11 minutes long.
When you do a lot of podcast recording you know that the sound of your voice varies across the day. I donât want to start a recording in the morning and finish it off in the evening. In that sense the difference to me between my voice and the clone is significant. But Iâm not certain everyone picks up on these nuances.
More to the point: had I only used the cloned voice for all of it, itâs very hard to make out that itâs not a human speaking.
At the end of the episode is where I reveal the voice clone part, and play that part again.
https://carefully.axbom.com/episodes/when-your-voice-runs-away-from-home
#DigitalEthics #VoiceClone
@drgroftehauge
Wow, I had no idea!
@folfdk
@drgroftehauge @folfdk
Fair and valid point. The tool truesize.com only allows me to drag one country at a time so this was the fastest way I could get this type of image. But I will definitely consider this for the future.
@tb
Thanks, yes there are so many aspect to this to explore further. Had I been back at university I would likely have taken time to dive deeper in the whole subject area.
I wrote this post a while back using map projections as an example of how we often can draw the wrong conclusions because we insist on using outdated maps, or maps that were designed for a completely different purpose.
https://axbom.com/world-map/
@nusher Very true.
There is a missed opportunity for many media outlets when an African country is in the news. That opportunity has to do with size.
To understand the challenge of air lifting people spread out in a country that is as big as Sudan, size references help.
Iâve attached an image showing how Sudan overlaps the Scandinavian Peninsula and Finland. Its western border aligns with Norwayâs westernmost border (and a bit into the Norwegian Sea), and its eastern border aligns with Finlandâs eastern border, and then also stretches further into Russia in the northeast. The height of Sudan aligns with Swedenâs height.
From a land mass perspective you could easily throw in Denmark, Iceland and the UK inside the perimeter as well (to cover parts of the Baltic, North, and Norwegian Sea).
For perhaps obvious reasons most densely populated areas are along the Nile river, but size matters in providing the complete picture of the conflict. Many world maps in the news to a really poor job of communicating size, and I see this as a failure in reporting. Instead they often reinforce biases about country size.
