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Sun-ha Hong

@sunhahong.bsky.social

Wrote Technologies of Speculation (NYUP, 2020). Writing Predictions Without Futures. right now: Stanford Humanities Centre Fellow, soon: UNC Chapel Hill.

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Ted McCormick@tedmccormick.bsky.social · 10mo ago

A striking thing about articles I’ve read claiming to “study the effects” of generative AI on student writing skills and consumption of information is that (1) they nearly always find the effects are negative and (2) most “conclusions” are still written assuming that we must use AI, for some reason.

Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.

This Yougov survey contains an important finding: people who rely heavily on ChatGPT rate it as being "good" at tasks that we ABSOLUTELY know for sure it is very bad at imo, this is a strong piece of evidence these heavy users simply do not ever check outputs yougov.co.uk/technology/a...

While many critics of AI might hope that familiarity with the tools – with their frequent hallucinations and often outdated knowledge bases – would breed contempt, the opposite appears to be the case. Those Britons who use AI chatbots more frequently are the most likely to think they are good at pretty much all of the tasks listed.
Ketan Joshi@ketanjoshi.co · last yr.

I think we can split @hankgreen.bsky.social's question out into two categories: 1) Uses with an obvious failure mode 2) Uses with a subtle failure mode My theory is type (2) failures are becoming EXTREMELY widespread - the ones we catch are the iceberg tip, and suggest 1,000 un-caught errors

Stanford Professor Allegedly Includes Fake AI Citations in Filing on Deepfake Bill

Professor Jeff Hancock from the Stanford Social Media Lab submitted a legal argument in support of a Minnesota deepfake bill, but it reportedly includes citations made up by AI.

pcmag.com

Tamara Kneese@tamigraph.bsky.social · last yr.

I love how @zgtcooper.bsky.social uses his ethnographic work in Greenland to take down the vacuous concept of the Network State, which is so detached from land and the people who live in a place, with tech bros grafting AI generated crypto fascist nightmares onto topographies they don’t understand

The Network State and Topological Fetishism in Greenland

In his essay for our series “The Cloud is Dead,” D&S affiliate Zane Griffin Talley Cooper examines resource extraction in the Arctic and how fantasies of the Network State run counter to the reality o...

datasociety.net

Sun-ha Hong@sunhahong.bsky.social · last yr.

One thing I distinctly remember from this book is FFM. 20th century SV grew on electronics manufacturing, and employers systematically looked for female migrant labour - they called it FFM (fast fingered Malaysians). Small, cheap, and you can ignore/suppress all their health & safety complaints

Alexis Madrigal@alexis-madrigal.bsky.social · last yr.

An interesting historical fact: when Silicon Valley was a more important manufacturing center, most of the workers were Asian and Latina. Even in the 1980s, white Americans were not crazy about these jobs. Perhaps this crucial book should be more popular… nyupress.org/978081476709...

Karen Hao@karenhao.bsky.social · last yr.

Sam Altman isn't keen on you reading my book. EMPIRE OF AI is based on 300+ interviews, 7 yrs covering AI, and my time as the first reporter who got extensive access to OpenAI. I sought OpenAI's perspective throughout. For months they said it was coming. It never did. Pre-order here: empireofai.com.

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Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

🤯! I just learned that both Sarah and I are the "senior scholars and broken machine facilitators" at this summer's Digital Ideas Institute at the University of Michigan, June 23-7. Advanced grad students + early career scholars are encouraged to apply!

Apply to Digital IDEAS 2025 | U-M LSA Digital Studies Institute

digitalstudies.umich.edu

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · last yr.

I wanted to see what Sarah Sharma's been up to, and I discovered that she's soon publishing a book titled Insufferable Tools, which sounds amazing. I love her 🥰

Sun-ha Hong@sunhahong.bsky.social · last yr.

"The more ideas have become automatic, instrumentalised, the less does anybody see in them thoughts with a meaning of their own. They are considered things, machines. Language has been reduced to just another tool in the gigantic apparatus of production in modern society." - Max Horkheimer, 1944

Olivier Jutel 🇵🇸@ojutel.bsky.social · 2y ago

'The Network State, Venture Capital and the Political Economy of Exit' my latest manuscript (preprint) on Crypto-colonialists and NRx VCs www.researchgate.net/publication/...

(PDF) The Network State, Venture Capital and the Political Economy of Exit

PDF | This paper considers the emerging network state movement as evidence of the interplay between exit ideologies and exit strategies in the political... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

researchgate.net

Fight For A Union@fightforaunion.bsky.social · 2y ago

Trump already empowering the worst bosses to just.. ignore labor law. Whole Foods workers won their union vote, and now Whole Foods (owned by Jeff Bezos) is saying they simply won't recognize the vote because nobody is going to make them.

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Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 2y ago

One of the things to know about edtech is that many, many people involved in it have no experience teaching, and particularly not at the grade level the intervention is designed to target. They’re tech guys who think tech is Very Hard and teaching is a skill-free avocation for ladies.

Brian Merchant@bcmerchant.bsky.social · 2y ago

This is especially relevant now that OpenAI is now touting its "$500 billion" data center project with Softbank, and celebrated by Trump—it shows that OpenAI still doesn't have a viable business model, that their costs are too high, and that they need more state buy-in and outside capital to survive

AI Now Institute@ainowinstitute.bsky.social · 2y ago

Read @bcmerchant.bsky.social’s article evaluating OpenAI's business model, which argues that OpenAI is leaning on a flimsy presentation of AGI as its eventual business model––despite the lack of evidence it is a real possibility, or a viable profit pathway: ainowinstitute.org/general/ai-g...

Sun-ha Hong@sunhahong.bsky.social · 2y ago

The key ambition for the tech ideologues is the systematic destruction of all things 'public' - public oversight, democratic institutions, public space. City councils, local media, community orgs, public health experts - everything 'independent' must be eliminated in this vision of tech as religion.

Gil Durán@gilduran.com · 2y ago

Peter Thiel has increasingly clothed his political ideas in the language of religion. We should take it seriously. On Jan. 10, he wrote a peculiar op-ed in which he described Trump's return to power as a kind of apocalypse. Here's what he's trying to say: www.thenerdreich.com/peter-thiel-...

Ed Burmila@edburmila.bsky.social · 2y ago

“I’m different, I’m a rebel. I’m an outsider,” I say to the credulous journalist before repeating verbatim the beliefs and worldview of the president of the United States and every person with money and power in the world right now.