Working people of this country do not deserve to have their lives put into a digital dragnet to become playthings of the oligarchs. Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies. #sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...

Lucky and happy to be a research fellow at CAIS, where I get to look at the disturbing content that trains language models 🚯♻️📥 garbage in 🚯♻️📤 garbage out—and try to map more intersectional directions for machine learning 🏳️‍🌈🔓📖🤖✨

Center for Advanced Internet Studies@cais-research.bsky.social · last yr.

Meet the #CAISfellows: Dr. Sarah Ciston 🔍Her Research at CAIS: “Unsupervised Pleasures: Conscientious Datasets for Queer Futures” 🗓️Join her Talk: June 4 | 🕜 13:30-14:30 | 🔗 www.cais-research.de/event/luncht... #AI #KünstlicheIntelligenz #MachineLearning

Countdown to Spring 2026 release party begins now 🥰

@markcmarino.bsky.social · last yr.

Team ELIZA just delivered our finished manuscript to MIT Press!! Sarah Ciston, David Berry, Anthony Hay, me, Peter Millican, Arthur Schwarz, Jeff Shrager, Peggy Weil, foreword by Janet Murray @pweil.bsky.social @noahspringer.com @mitpress.bsky.social

"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead. Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts." Sounds promising. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

AI Search Has A Citation Problem

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

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Timnit Gebru@timnitgebru.blacksky.app · 2y ago

Lets replace search with "AI" then! Totally logical if you ask me. Even more worth it when you know they're exponentially overtaking the airline industry in their carbon footprint. Study: www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

Open-source lets us see how predictive systems encode biased, categorical logics. While better than closed systems, open-source alone does not address the issues with the logics themselves #predictivepolicing #criticalai

@markcmarino.bsky.social · 2y ago

Check out: Can Open-Source Fix Predictive Policing? Anti-Racist Critical Code Studies Approach to Contemporary AI Policing Software by @SarahCiston.com, Zach Mann, Jeremy Douglass & Me in @dhquarterly.bsky.social #antiracist #critcode #machinelearning #artificialintelligence

Replicative AI is a more apt description of “generative AI.” The language matters.

Nao Tokui@naotokui.bsky.social · 2y ago

What if we used the term Replicative AI instead of Generative AI?

Stored datasets are "target banks" are people who are killed. And the "AI services" are built on the very same tools we toy with on our phones.

Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a join...

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On bad faith arguments and "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now":

Patton Oswalt@pattonoswalt.bsky.social · 2y ago

NEW EPISODE! We talk to the artist/coder/critical AI scholar Sarah Ciston about their badass chatbot Ladymouth, which responds to trolls and incels on hate forums. Watch/listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts! youtu.be/-EnzPpjmeGk?...

Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston

YouTube video by The Good Robot

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