there is no such thing as "responsible use of generative ai" in research

Is that so. www.13newsnow.com/article/tech...

🚨 La police utilise illégalement la reconnaissance faciale sur ses téléphones depuis quatre ans Révélations @disclose.ngo, témoignages et documents confidentiels à l'appui disclose.ngo/fr/article/l...

La reconnaissance faciale déployée à grande échelle sur les téléphones des forces de l’ordre

Les policiers et gendarmes français ont accès à un logiciel de reconnaissance faciale sur leur téléphone professionnel depuis 2022. Relié au TAJ, le fichier d’antécédents judiciaires, l’outil permet g...

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This article contains 0 mentions of 100+ data centres being built across the UK and 2 mentions of shorter showers. The doctrine of personal responsibility <<<< 20% of treated water lost thru' old pipes + more via unshaded reservoirs. www.dumptheguardian.com/news/ng-inte...

How can England possibly be running out of water?

While famously rainswept, climate crisis, population growth and profligacy mean the once unthinkable could be possible

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⚠️ Freedom of Information (FOI) requests reveal that the UK passport and immigration databases have been used by police for mass facial recognition searches WITHOUT a clear legal basis, or the public or parliament’s knowledge. pvcy.org/TelegraphFRT

I'm genuinely gobsmacked that the Home Office think this is a good idea. How do they envisage "training" technology to verify the age of a young person from (say) Darfur or Iraqi Kurdistan? They might as well get the calipers out and start doing phrenology

Alasdair Mackenzie@alasdairmackenzie.bsky.social · last yr.

Given what we know about AI reproducing existing racial bias, and the inaccurate and racist results of facial recognition technology, this has to be there with the worst proposals the Home Office has ever made, and believe me, the bar is high

Join us on Friday: Workshop on “Historical and Sociological Perspectives on the #DigitalTransformation”. ⏰ July 18, 2025, 9 a.m. 🏛️ Deutsches Museum Munich 👉 Organized by DFG-project #ArtViWO (@dfg.de) #HistSci #HistTech #HistAI #STS @vgoujon.bsky.social @assiaw.bsky.social

WeTransfer just changed their TOS giving themselves permission to train AI on any content you transfer and produce derivative works based on content you transfer that they are allowed to monetize and you are not allowed payment for. Stop using WeTransfer.

New from 404 Media: ICE is using a new facial recognition app to identify people, leaked emails show. Point camera at person, reveal their identity. It uses the CBP system that records peoples' faces as they enter or exit the U.S. Now, turned inwards to be used by ICE www.404media.co/ice-is-using...

ICE Is Using a New Facial Recognition App to Identify People, Leaked Emails Show

The new tool, called Mobile Fortify, uses the CBP system which ordinarily takes photos of people when they enter or exit the U.S., according to internal ICE emails viewed by 404 Media. Now ICE is usin...

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I do not like AI in Slack I do not like AI on Mac I do not like AI in Zoom I don’t want AI in my room I do not want ChatGPT — please stop, AI, and leave me be! I don’t want AI here, or there; I don’t want AI anywhere! (… okay, okay — had to Seuss it, sorry 😇)

Maggie Astor@maggieastor.bsky.social · last yr.

I do not want AI in Slack. I do not want AI in Google. I do not want AI on Facebook. I do not want AI in documents or spreadsheets. I do not want AI in Adobe Acrobat. I do not want AI in Zoom. I do not want AI on news sites. I do not want AI in the patient portal for my doctor's office. I do not wan

“Just last week, researchers at Apple released a damning paper that threw cold water on the "reasoning" capabilities of the latest and most powerful LLMs, arguing they "face a complete accuracy collapse beyond certain complexities." Womp womp.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · last yr.

Cultists have a party.

What could go wrong.

OpenAI and Barbie-maker Mattel team up to bring generative AI to toymaking, other products | TechCrunch

Barbie-maker Mattel and OpenAI have teamed up to bring generative AI to the toymaking and ever-expanding pipeline of IP repackaging.

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🇪🇺🇫🇷 La France et l’Europe financent, sans le dire, l’industrie militaire israélienne Enquête de @disclaimer.bsky.social @reportersunited.gr et @investigate-europe.eu sur un financement public pour développer des drones armés qui alimente la machine de guerre d’Israël disclose.ngo/fr/article/l...

La France et l’Europe financent, sans le dire, l’industrie militaire israélienne

Un projet de développement de drones militaires financé par l'Europe et sept gouvernements européens, dont la France, a obtenu, en mai 2024, un financement de 59 millions d’euros d'argent public. Pro...

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Le gouvernement a supprimé ses publications. Mais la vidéo a été sauvegardée. La voici.

🗓️ Join us next Tuesday for a talk by Anna Schjøtt Hansen and Dieuwertje Luitse on "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation: From Present to Future"! A presentation followed by a collective discussion with @assiaw.bsky.social, @theolenoir.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and myself ⤵️

Sciences Po médialab @medialab-scpo.bsky.social · last yr.

Mardi 3 juin, découvrez comment l’évaluation des modèles IA évolue et soulève un enjeu politique majeur. Une présentation d’ @annaschjoett.bsky.social et @dluitse.bsky.social suivie d’un échange sur le lancement de la collection « The Politics of ML Evaluation » dans Digital Society. Plus d'info 🔽

Some guy on Twitter made a point of announcing that thousands upon thousands of men are descended from rapists, and we women "aren't going to like it when [they] stop asking nicely." Which, you know, surprise surprise brother, but you're also not going to like it when we stop refusing nicely.

Vous connaissiez Virginia Eubanks pour son enquête sur les technologies de l'État social américain. On en discute sur @aoc-media.bsky.social, avec l’actualité américaine et un témoignage sur son expérience de proche aidante et sur comment le soin pourrait être réinventé.

🗓️ The next and final 2024-2025 session of the FlashLab seminar will feature Dieuwertje Luitse (@dluitse.bsky.social), PhD Candidate at the University of Amsterdam, with a talk on the technopolitical production of "otherness" through ML modelling and evaluation in medecine! Abstract and more info ⤵️

my latest for the guardian on love in a time of surveillance - inspired by some horrifying findings from recent eSafety Commissioner research (e.g. nearly 1 in 5 young people believe it’s okay to track their partner whenever they want)

Tracking apps might make us feel safe, but blurring the line between care and control can be dangerous | Samantha Floreani

Apps like Life360 and Find My Friends are changing the landscape of what’s considered to be an expression of love – and not necessarily for the better

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La séance se tiendra à 16h en ligne ! Au plaisir de vous y retrouver nombreux.ses 👇

assia@assiaw.bsky.social · last yr.

Nouvelle séance du #Flashlab organisée le 15/05 (16h-17h30) avec une présentation de Laurène Tetu, doctorante en #SIC à l'Université de La Réunion : “Questionner l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle en contexte postcolonial pour combler un manque de source et changer de paradigme”

A good rule of thumb: If a surveillance technology exists, it will eventually be weaponized and abused.

Nouvelle séance du #Flashlab organisée le 15/05 (16h-17h30) avec une présentation de Laurène Tetu, doctorante en #SIC à l'Université de La Réunion : “Questionner l’utilisation de l’intelligence artificielle en contexte postcolonial pour combler un manque de source et changer de paradigme”

Former Death Star employees condemn new Emperor's plan to use Death Star for death star stuff

Bobby Allyn@bobbyallyn.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: 13 ex-Palantir employees condemn work with the Trump administration as violating Palantir's code of conduct, including using products to collect data on immigrant children. "These injustices could be facilitated by the very software infrastructure we help build." www.npr.org/2025/05/05/n...

❗ PLOUF - Avis de Parution ❗ On l’avait (vraiment pas) rêvé, iels l’ont fait ! Aujourd’hui, mercredi 30 avril 2025, sort l’ouvrage collectif 'Face à l’obscurantisme woke' aux Presses "Universitaires" de France. 🧵

Generative AI ate my job: Venezuela provided the tech industry with low-paid gig-work annotating data but generative AI now does many of these low-skilled tasks depriving migrants of work and income. restofworld.org/2025/generat...

"our aim is to accelerate the development and adoption of AI" every government, university, and business alike.... my question is WHY?

🗓️ Le séminaire FlashLab ouvre son nouveau cycle trimestriel, dédié aux enjeux contemporains de l'IA, avec une présentation d'Hélène Herman (CEMS, @ehess.fr) : au menu, l'implémentation de la notion de confiance au sein des normes européennes portées par le CEN-CENELEC. Titre et résumé ci-dessous ⤵️

📢 Appel à témoignages 📢 Notre groupe de travail “Précarité” lance son enquête auprès des enseignant·es vacataires de l'ESR exerçant en France ! Le questionnaire prend 5 mins à remplir et sera ouvert jusqu'au 31.07.25. Il est accessible ici 👉 framaforms.org/enquete-sur-... Pour plus d'infos 👇

a stuffed animal with a magnifying glass and a hat

Alt: Le pokemon pikatchu avec une casquette de détective qui porte une loupe à son oeil

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Vote demain jeudi à partir de 15h — fera à @arnaudsaint-martin.bsky.social Et d'ici là, on invite les députés à aller voter contre le maintien du @hceres.bsky.social !

Marielle Debos@debos.bsky.social · last yr.

Vous avez signé la pétition? Les députés débattent aujourd'hui de la suppression de l'HCERES! academia.hypotheses.org/61729