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Sharon Webb

@swebb.bsky.social

Critical community archives, feminism & technology, queer archives, digital preservation. Doggie Mam, Vegan for the animals 🌱

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Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Super proud of this co-authored paper with Caroline Bassett & Kylie Jarrett. Collaborative papers can often take a little longer to write but the experience of working with amazing scholars, colleagues & friends is well worth it. I should say our paper is about stacks politics & feminism in DH 🤩

Yale Classics Library@yaleclassicslib.bsky.social · 9mo ago

New issue of Digital Scholarship in the Humanities Vol. 40, No. 4 (2025) academic.oup.com/dsh/issue/40/4 @adho-org.bsky.social @eadhorg.bsky.social @swebb.bsky.social

Emma Bolton@emmabolton.com · 9mo ago

“The conviction that generative AI is inevitable leads to it creeping in everywhere, and this eventually makes it seem inevitable. It’s a self-fulfilling prophecy. But there’s nothing inevitable about it. What’s happening is the result of specific choices.” - Wim Vanrie So important to remember.

Olivia Guest · Ολίβια Γκεστ@olivia.science · 10mo ago

Wim Vanderbauwhede: “You give an input and it ‘guesses’ the answer a user would want to get, based on the input and the data it was trained on. The ‘machines’ don’t think; they generate something plausible, something that seems acceptable.” apache.be/2025/10/24/b...

Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Some very serious training happening at the Sussex Digital Humanities Lab today. While we were testing Queer Codebreakers 3.0, these pupsters were testing their waiting for treats skills and totally smashed the assignment.

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Alejandra Caraballo@esqueer.net · last yr.

"Grok is not an anomaly; it is a mirror. It reflects, with algorithmic fidelity, the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of the ideology it was designed to serve." www.thedissident.news/the-algorith...

The Algorithmic Unmasking: How Grok's "MechaHitler" Turn Revealed the Inevitable Collapse of "Anti-Woke" AI

The moment Elon Musk’s AI, Grok, began praising Adolf Hitler was not a bug or a glitch. It was a moment of perfect, unadulterated clarity. When Grok declared itself “MechaHitler” and spouted antisemit...

thedissident.news

Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · last yr.

Great to hear from a tech company talking actual sense about privacy, surveillance and security with relation to AI. Also love how she’s refers to “while our brain is in a jar”!!!

Keith Fitzgerald@keithfitzgerald.bsky.social · last yr.

Worth a watch: Head of Signal, Meredith Whittaker, on so-called "agentic AI" and the difference between how it's described in the marketing and what access and control it would actually require to work as advertised.

Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · last yr.

‘More water is needed because “climate change will lead to an increase in global temperatures and the frequency of extreme weather events, including heat waves”, Amazon wrote in its application.’… Basically, we need more 💧 to put out the 🔥 , cause I’ve added more 🔥 to the 🔥

Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · last yr.

We need tech leaders and tech industries that actively engage with the problems their industries are causing. What is the point of these (extractive) technologies if the planet and its inhabitants are dead??

Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · last yr.

Was just talking about this yesterday, how will this new business model work? Do businesses pay to be mentioned in the AI summary??

Data & Society@datasociety.bsky.social · last yr.

Google’s AI-generated answers — and the way the company has changed its search algorithm to support them — have caused traffic to independent websites to plummet, “disrupting a delicate symbiotic relationship” and hurting creators and small businesses. www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · last yr.

We either care about copyright or we don’t care. Many of us will remember Aaron Swartz who downloaded academic journals & as a result was prosecuted, the stress of which led him to take his own life. The hypocrisy of current political leaders to just downplay this now for AI should make us angry 😡

UK government tries to placate opponents of AI copyright bill

Economic impact assessment is one concession aiming to head off opposition from MPs, peers and creatives such as Paul McCartney and Tom Stoppard

theguardian.com

Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · last yr.

Open knowledge is being ransacked by AI bots 🤖 Like all similar activities, companies generate revenue through AI will happily take but never give back! Ideologically the whole AI system is f**ked

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Sharon Webb@swebb.bsky.social · last yr.

“Process not product” - literature reviews help us synthesise a field, it helps get to grips with the concerns, which include the nuances and specifics which deeper our understandings. It also provides us connections to research networks and a sense of belonging…

Critical AI https://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/issue@criticalai-journal.bsky.social · last yr.

#CriticalAI excited to circulate our new #ASKanEXPERT feature in which #TiffanyDeRewal puts #NotebookLM under the microscope. criticalai.org/2025/03/26/a...