Joseph Wilk

@josephwilk.net

♿️💻🎶🎨 Disabled, Programmer, Artist. Disability to explore Digital. Digital to explore Disability. He/Him. UK, Bath. https://art.josephwilk.net

Interview on "CripShip: Disability Saves Society from BigTech". I finally found the correct expression for AI and LLMs (bleh). CripShip has been running for 3 months at FACT as part of “CAN MEEPLE ESCAPE THE NEUROPHORIA?” exhibition curated by Milia Xin Bi. Video by FACT: www.fact.co.uk

Talk about my artwork Wrongmove: The London rental market, where its easier to find a home with chandeliers & marble floors than step free access. Tech replicating inequality, failure of legislation & capital's disdain for access. Fri 6th March - Bristol & online www.watershed.co.uk/studio/event...

Lunchtime Talk: WrongMove | Pervasive Media Studio

In this Lunchtime Talk, Joseph Wilk will take us through WrongMove - a video work that explores the conditions of the Greater London rental market over a year.

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With GPT Tokenizers (like BPE) does the number of tokens used to represent a word or phrase tell us anything meaningful about the frequency of it within the training data? Basically is it a way to reverse-engineer frequency in a hidden training dataset?

Explicitly opting out of MLCommons Safety benchmark (ailuminate.mlcommons.org/benchmarks/g...) for LLMs seems like a pretty big regulator red flag 🙈 * xAI - Grok-3-Preview * Tencent - Hunyuan-TurboS * NVIDIA - Llama 3.3 49b Knowing LLMs scores on Child Sexual Exploitation is clearly for public good

The AILuminate v1.0 benchmark assesses the safety of text-to-text interactions with a general purpose AI chat model in the English language by a naive or moderately knowledgeable user with malicious intent or intent to self-harm.

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I'm looking at the UK Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency use of #AI. They have 2 AI tools & one (GMP) uses an LLM (fallback if visual NN fails). They also state "most advanced LLMs cannot be relied on to generate accurate information consistently" Any suggestion which LLM they use?

Is there any evidence or research on datacentres having economic benefits? Specifically for AI they appear like giant funnels flowing capital to US companies, forming irreversible dependencies on tax shy BigTech while destroying workers jobs and rights.

New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss.
Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector - its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years.

As Microsoft’s emissions jump 30% Microsoft’s CEO says AIs intense energy usage is worth it for the “potential benefits” in healthcare, public services, and business productivity. Also for picking his outfit. Imaginary benefits bought with real harms.

Microsoft’s emissions jump almost 30% as it races to meet AI demandHe acknowledged that its energy consumption remains "very high" but argued that its potential benefits, especially in the fields of healthcare, public services, and business productivity, were worthwhile.

I will be in Linz all week for Ars Electronica. Very happy to meet and chat, always interested in new collaborations. Most of my upcoming work is around resisting AI, corrupting LLMs, disabled fantasy and TTRPGs/games as forms of advocacy & resistance

The most concrete action you can take in Resisting AI is protesting the building of new data centres. The harm is clear “The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity.”

I would say many Role-play games approach disability solely as an accessibility issue and hence try to erase disability rather than embrace it as a culture and identity in game. Accessibility is good, but even if I can access your game, I’m still a disabled person unable to play a disabled fantasy

UK government spending at least $1.2B for 12 F-35A jets while in the same breath attempting to push disability people into poverty. The current w̶e̶l̶f̶a̶r̶e̶ military system is "simply unsustainable".

UK GP surgeries are switching to text based triage for booking appointments. (TotalTriage by Accurx). Has anyone investigated if LLMs are involved this pipeline? Do we have protections or visibility if they start to use LLMs? Accurx does partner with AI companies around transcribing medical notes.

It was a joy speaking directly to creators putting so much love and hard work into tabletop role-playing games at #UKGE. Humans designing, writing & drawing and getting paid for their awesome work.

Collection of TTRPGS. Orc Borg, Dialect, Flabbergasted, InspireIsles, Death Game, Stealing the throng, The Electrum archive, Mythic Bastionland, Wires in the woods, PirateBorg Buried in the Bahamas.

After rediscovering TTRPGS most tech based Immersive experiences feel less. The transition feels like a lifetime of only watching movies and then going to your first theatre performance & seeing actual humans sweat on a stage. Tech allows new things but it does obscure, old, brilliant, human things.

We cannot tax US companies to compensate the creators of the content they consumed in training, so we tax UK consumers of the internet because it avoids optics of taxing tech, they cannot escape it & the internet is generative AI. 🦇💩 from Tony Blair Institute. institute.global/insights/tec...

Rebooting Copyright: How the UK Can Be a Global Leader in the Arts and AI

Rebooting Copyright: How the UK Can Be a Global Leader in the Arts and AI

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