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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Sep 3

How can we evaluate GenAI as cultural technology?

#GenAI is cultural & social but most eval lean on technical benchmarks. In a new paper with 30+ researchers we introduce a framework that evaluates GenAI not only on performance, but on meaning

📖 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#academicbluesky

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Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · Aug 6

Our team’s research on how people interact with mental health chatbots is more about the people than the bots, researcher @briana-v.bsky.social‬ writes. datasociety.net/points/what-...

Text on an orange background with the title of the Points post,What Happens When People Turn to Chatbots for Therapy? by Briana Vecchione. It includes a quote from the brief: "Chatbots are reshaping not only how people seek help, but how they define it."

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Jun 10

📣 Tomorrow! Join us for the next AI & Society Salon – June 11 at 5 PM CET.

Marco Donnarumma brings performance art and movement research into strange encounters with sound, light, robotics and AI.

🗓️ June 11, 17h00 CET
➡️ Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

#CultureAndTech #AI #ArtAndTech

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Jun 4

Organized with @qveraliao.bsky.social, @katecrawford.bsky.social, jenny williams, and gonzalo ramos

Watch/Read previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

AI & Society Salons

Salons # These salons are online exchanges with artists who have worked with AI, whether as a tool, medium, subject, partner or adversary. We have imagined these salons as an opportunity to invite art...

regainingpoweroverai.org

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Jun 4

♦️ Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 11 June 17:00 CET for a Salon with Marco Donnarumma, performance artist and researcher.

We will discuss human body, tech and power.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Jun 4

Why we cannot separate Art from the Artist?
in @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/ai-doesnt-pa...

AI Doesn’t Paint: Why We Cannot Separate Art from the Artist | TechPolicy.Press

Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

www.techpolicy.press

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · May 20

Sure, duolingo showed us just how well we can speak a foreign language using it.
fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...

Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’

Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.

fortune.com

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · May 20

Large survey conducted by Bookbub on how authors view generative AI. It shows that authors are divided on its use and the importance of ethical concerns among authors who don't use it. insights.bookbub.com/how-authors-...

#AI #GenAI #Writing #CreativeIndustry

How Authors are Thinking About AI (Survey of 1,200+ Authors)

We surveyed more than 1,200 authors to learn how they're thinking about generative AI as it relates to their work. Here's what they had to say.

insights.bookbub.com

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Apr 24

Attending #CHI2025?
📆 Go to see Lenny presenting this work: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Conference Programs

programs.sigchi.org

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Apr 24

Through interviews with documentary photographers, it reveals enthusiasm for AI’s ability to support community-driven storytelling, alongside concerns about authenticity, trust, and the risk of misrepresentation.

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Apr 24

This study examines the emerging role of generative AI in documentary photography, highlighting both its creative potential and ethical challenges.

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Apr 24

📢 Excited to share our #CHI2025 paper "Generative AI in Documentary Photography: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Storytelling" by Lenny Martinez, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and myself.

➡️ Pre-print: hal.science/hal-04982451...

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Mar 25

AI Toolbox for Performing Arts, by Daniel Bisig: https://
gitlab.zhdk.ch/dbisig/aitoolbox
#AI #PerformingArts #Creativity

bisig daniel - dbisig / AIToolbox · GitLab

Quellcode- und Projektverwaltung mit GitLab | Source code and project management using GitLab

gitlab.zhdk.ch

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Mar 5

Happening today!

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 27

🚨 Event Update: New Date! 🚨
Our online Salon, a dialogue with @carolinesinders.bsky.social on #AI & #Society, has been postponed and will now take place on March 5, 6pm CET.

Info, registration, Zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 27

🚨 Event Update: New Date! 🚨
Our online Salon, a dialogue with @carolinesinders.bsky.social on #AI & #Society, has been postponed and will now take place on March 5, 6pm CET.

Info, registration, Zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 17

📢 This is happening tomorrow! Zoom link via registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...
#AI #Art #Society

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 18 February 18:00pm CET for a Salon with @carolinesinders.bsky.social, artist and researcher.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Flyer of the salon "regaining power over AI", 4th episode with Carolien Sinders

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danah boyd @zephoria.bsky.social · Feb 11

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

An image of Aaron Swartz with the following text: "Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TB of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

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Kate Crawford @katecrawford.bsky.social · Feb 11

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 11

Want to know more about previous salons and the project in general ? 🌍 regainingpoweroverai.org

Introduction

Regaining Power Over AI is a research project analyzing the current impacts of AI in the creative and artistic sectors. The project aims to hear from artists on this topic, to highlight and critique d...

regainingpoweroverai.org

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 11

I'm happy to be organizing this alongside my collaborators at Microsoft Research: Jenny Williams, Gonzalo Ramos, @katecrawford.bsky.social, and @qveraliao.bsky.social.

This event is supported by ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MSFT Research.

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 11

We're hearing a lot about AI at the moment but little about the agency that people have over these technologies.

This is the 4th episode of a series of salons where we discuss how we can shape AI and challenge dominant narratives through artistic practice.

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 11

Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 18 February 18:00pm CET for a Salon with @carolinesinders.bsky.social, artist and researcher.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 7

Finally, we analyze the implicit narratives and impacts on the creative and artistic sectors.

Read the full article 🌍 arxiv.org/abs/2502.03940

Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 7

We show that these narratives conveyed values about creative work, in particular:
🔹 automation over manual work
🔹 efficiency over exploration
🔹 concept over execution
🔹 artifact over process
🔹 short-term over long-term skills

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Baptiste Caramiaux @bcaramiaux.bsky.social · Feb 7

AI is not neutral. AI narratives have long carried stereotypes and political agendas. It comes with stories, values, and perspectives that influence how we perceive artistic work.

➡️ Little research has examined how these narratives operate in the creative and artistic sectors.

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