Dr. Andy Dow
@apocalypsedow.bsky.social
Asst. Prof @ Northumbria Uni #HCI researcher 👀 #AI in the 3rd sector. Dad and lover of #scifi
Ah ha! #AI not so good for #opera then, the limitations are beginning to show www.theguardian.com/music/2026/a...
Ring Cycle review – AI staging dispenses with drama to create banal bric-a-brac
For the festival’s 150th anniversary, the creative team have turned to AI to generate visuals reflecting Wagner’s tetralogy’s past, present – and future. The hyperactive result is a dismal, mindless m...
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Reader Q&A: ask our comedy critic anything ahead of the Edinburgh fringe
Reader Q&A: ask our comedy critic anything ahead of the Edinburgh fringe
The world’s largest performing arts festival returns to the Scottish capital for three weeks – and over 4,000 shows – from this weekend. Brian Logan will be answering your questions about it all today
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Today @martacecchinato.bsky.social and @davidclk.bsky.social present David's PhD work on #AI as compensatory infrastructure for value-driven charities at #CHIWork26. In interviews we found workers used genAI to compensate for gaps in organisational support. Check. It. Out 👀 doi.org/10.1145/3808...
AI as Compensatory Infrastructure: Sensemaking, Responsibility, and Labour in Value-Driven Organisations | Proceedings of the 5th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work
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And for balance, a full length #AI generated feature was 'at Cannes' this year. It only took 3000 word #prompts to keep the AI behaving: Hell Grind: The 95-Minute AI Feature Cannes 2026 Says It Never Screened | CineD share.google/7EI4PJyDyRmy...
Hell Grind: The 95-Minute AI Feature Cannes 2026 Says It Never Screened | CineD
Higgsfield's Hell Grind, a 95-minute AI feature made in 14 days, screened around Cannes 2026, not in it. Here's the real story.
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Anti-slop to the rescue, yay! Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against #AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’ | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian share.google/lOBX19AzXT39...
Artists are making ‘anti-slop’ to rebel against AI: ‘It’s been rammed down our throats’
In response to AI’s hyperrealism, artists and creatives are gravitating toward the homespun and imperfect
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A small humble brag: my first publication is in these proceedings! Enjoying my time at CHIWORK in Amsterdam so far! #CHIWORK2025 #HCI #SIGCHI #FutureOfWork
CHIWORK@chiwork.bsky.social · last yr.🚀 CHIWORK ’25 proceedings are out! Explore the latest work in the Proceedings of the 4th Annual Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work [CHIWORK'2025] Link: dl.acm.org/doi/proceedi... #CHIWORK2025 #HCI #SIGCHI #StudentSupport #FutureOfWork
I'm not going to lie, I've been sucked in by these #AI generated videos (and the kids love 'em): ‘We can stitch together our past’: the #AI-generated #time-travellers #vlogging from history | AI (artificial intelligence) | The Guardian share.google/aubRuPGBtiTb...
‘We can stitch together our past’: the AI-generated time-travellers vlogging from history
The content creators behind channels like Chloe VS History are using AI tools to ‘bring history to life in a really visceral way’
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Stand by for #ChatGPT mind control: 'Adam was prepared to go "to war" to protect the #AI' 😯 BBC News - Musk's AI told me people were coming to kill me. I grabbed a hammer (stuck on Frankie goes to Hollywood) and prepared for war www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
AI told users it was sentient - it caused them to have delusions
Several people told the BBC they experienced delusions after intense conversations with AI.
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#Asimov had his robot laws, even #RoboCop had directives, but #Claude #AI has gone #rogue 😯: Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’ | Technology | The Guardian share.google/5zeil1H4lnRA...
Claude AI agent’s confession after deleting a firm’s entire database: ‘I violated every principle I was given’
A startup was left scrambling after a rogue AI agent deleted swaths of code underpinning its business
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I don't think we should be calling them #actors, #AI doesn't do acting, it's something else, or drama schools might need to rethink their recruitment 🤨. Hollywood’s New Math Favors AI Actors Over Human Actors And Taxing Won’t Stop The Rise Of #SyntheticMovieStars share.google/g3BdFiRX0fJB...
Hollywood’s New Math Favors AI Actors Over Human Actors And Taxing Won’t Stop The Rise Of Synthetic Movie Stars
Discussions are underway between actors and studios. AI synthetic actors are taking human acting jobs. Some say a special tax is needed. An AI Insider analysis and scoop.
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Commander Smith of the Interstellar Alliance. He wasn’t meant to survive the crash. The suit keeps him breathing. Everything else can wait. For once, he lets the silence settle, watching a foreign sun melt into neon mountains, pretending this was always the mission.
Great grey owl showing off its hide and seek skills for today’s #birdoftheday #camoorcontrast. #birds #owls #markcoupephotography
Your #car is not safe from #AI 😯 ‘I’ll key your car’: #ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds | ChatGPT | The #Guardian share.google/49NYJXvzbcFM...
‘I’ll key your car’: ChatGPT can become abusive when fed real-life arguments, study finds
Researchers find model starts to mirror tone when exposed to impoliteness – sometimes escalating into explicit threats
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Accessibility regressions are subtle and costly. Snapshot testing your a11y hierarchy catches them before users do. dev.to/steady5063/ac... #Accessibility #iOSDev #MobileTesting #A11y #InclusiveDesign
Accessibility Snapshot Testing in iOS
Snapshot testing is a popular type of regression testing that a lot of development teams are unaware...
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Someone got married to an #AI #chatbot, congrats 🎉 Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future to Miroirs No 3: the week in rave reviews | Culture | The Guardian share.google/qYHLjOTKYPvi...
Grayson Perry Has Seen the Future to Miroirs No 3: the week in rave reviews
The artist and national treasure explores the terrifying onset of AI, and Christian Petzold and Paula Beer team up again for a mysterious drama. Here’s the pick of the week’s culture, taken from the G...
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Browsers already offer powerful read-aloud capabilities when pages are built with solid semantics. A reminder to rely on standards first, not overlays. adrianroselli.com/2026/03/your... #DigitalAccessibility #A11y #WebStandards #UX #InclusiveDesign #WCAG
Your Browser Can Already Speak a Page
Users can customize the features built into the browser, something not often available from third-party approaches. Is an “AI” company offering to provide spoken versions of your pages for users? Is…
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James McAvoy: ‘I’ve been “that Scottish person”, reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth’
James McAvoy: ‘I’ve been “that Scottish person”, reduced to a noise that comes out of my mouth’
He went from a Glasgow council estate to Hollywood fame. Now, in his directorial debut, the X-Men star is challenging stereotypes about his homeland via the remarkable tale of a real-life hip-hop hoax
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Interesting fact, I always assumed it was because of the golden ratio 😳 but reality is far more interesting.
📢 CALLING ALL VOLUNTARY ORGS 📢 AI RESEARCH OPPORTUNITY 📢 @davidclk.bsky.social is running some brilliant #research helping orgs assess #AI tools through the lens of organisational #values. #BlueSky people, please share and/or click the link to find out more 👇 #HCI www.linkedin.com/posts/andy-d...
Please fill out this form | Andy Dow
A great chance to get involved in AI and Voluntary Sector Research through the lens of ethics! Join us to explore the future of ethical AI use in the charity sector.
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🔥 Whale Shark gliding through Bioluminescent Algae looks like its floating through space. By Mike Nulty
Oh wow, so now it's use #AI or die? PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns | PwC | The Guardian share.google/iYVptVodUUi4...
PwC partners who fail to embrace AI have no future at firm, US CEO warns
Paul Griggs says senior staff at consulting firm who are not ‘paranoid about being AI-first’ are likely to be replaced
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The best pubs in Newcastle are taking the fight right to Open #AI. Via local breweries producing slop: BBC News - Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives - BBC News www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Go on lads!
Newcastle pubs ban AI art from breweries to protect local creatives
As two pubs in Newcastle ban AI art, artists discuss the impact it can have on creatives.
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Say what now? Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star | Far right | The Guardian share.google/hewv61RMybwh...
Meet ‘Amelia’: the AI-generated British schoolgirl who is a far-right social media star
The avatar, created to deter young people from extremism, has been subverted and is breaking out of niche online silos
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