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perfect knight @shiningknightx.bsky.social · 7h

"we cant uninvent ai" no we cant but we couldnt uninvent nfts either and nobody gives a fuck about them anymore

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 4h

Me too.

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Comfortably Numb @numb.comfortab.ly · 6h

Upload your scanned ID they said. It will be fine they said.

404 Media @404media.co · 12h

BREAKING: A catastrophic breach has impacted Discord user data including selfies and identity documents uploaded as part of the app’s verification process, email addresses, phone numbers, approximately where the user lives, and much more.

🔗 www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

“Friends laughing just out of frame” vibes.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

🙄

Sam Altman Says Copyright Holders Are Begging for Their Characters to Be Included in Sora

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman has remained adamant that rightsholders are already lining up to have their IP featured on Sora 2.

futurism.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 7h

🤦🏿‍♂️

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 8h

This.

Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 9h

One side, "AI 2027" is led by a bunch of privileged white people working at the companies causing the other side (AI con/Empire of AI).

One side, the "AI is gonna be so powerful if you don't let US be the AGI builders" is making money from stealing data, killing the environment & exploiting labor.

Elinor🎗️ @ COLM 🍁 @elinorpd.bsky.social · 12h

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Timnit Gebru @timnitgebru.bsky.social · 9h

This isn't a "why can't we all get along" kumbaya moment. Its a moment to understand all the ways in which the people who created OpenAI, Anthropic etc claiming that their machine god will bring utopia, are the actual "existential risks" to humanity.

Raising billions of dollars to "save humanity."

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Arrianna Marie Planey, PhD MA @arrianna-planey.bsky.social · 8h

"We need the water to cool the data centers so we can churn out Mad Max Part 4904824744"

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Says ‘AI Is Here to Stay and Change Things’: ‘It’s Way More Egalitarian’ and Will Make Filmmaking ‘Available to Anyone Who Has a Calling to It’

'Mad Max' director George Miller says that "AI is here to stay and change things" and praises the potential to make filmmaking "more egalitarian."

variety.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

Do not, my friends, become addicted to water.

‘Mad Max’ Director George Miller Says ‘AI Is Here to Stay and Change Things’: ‘It’s Way More Egalitarian’ and Will Make Filmmaking ‘Available to Anyone Who Has a Calling to It’

'Mad Max' director George Miller says that "AI is here to stay and change things" and praises the potential to make filmmaking "more egalitarian."

variety.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 8h

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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 11h

If your invited keynote speaker works for a company started because OpenAI wasn't basing its work enough on science fiction and said speaker uncritically cites TESCREAList, fictional work masquerading as science, you might not have organized a serious academic gathering.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

I think it’s understated the degree to which these guys are mainly trolls with VC money, and that if we view them in that fashion it opens up an array of strategies.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

Assuming you’ve seen this.

A cartoonist's review of AI art - The Oatmeal

This is a comic about AI art.

theoatmeal.com

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 11h

Images I have so far: a parrot; a monkey at a keyboard; that one "portrait" of Ned Ludd; maybe the defecating duck as well

Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 11h

Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 11h

Gallery of Friend graffiti.

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all friend.com reviews by NYC

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Danya Glabau @allergyphd.bsky.social · 11h

Ok friends, it's your time to shine: What visual metaphors are out there for LLM/AI resistance and refusal? Making slides for a thing!

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Joseph Cox @josephcox.bsky.social · 13h

New from 404 Media: the Discord hack is every users' worst nightmare. Yesterday the hackers started posting Discord users' selfies, identity documents, email addresses, phone numbers, more. I watched in real time. This is risk of tech storing ID for age verification
www.404media.co/the-discord-...

The Discord Hack is Every Users’ Worst Nightmare

A hack impacting Discord’s age verification process shows in stark terms the risk of tech companies collecting users’ ID documents. Now the hackers are posting peoples’ IDs and other sensitive informa...

www.404media.co

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🇬🇾🗽Sydette The Dreaded Gorgon🗽🇬🇾 @blackamazon.bsky.social · 15h

Kriss Kristofferson took such good care of Sinead O Connor and I love him for it

And I’m also always amused by the Flanderization of Willie Nelson because he’s

Just been a pain the collective ass of people for years

Because he’s SO pleasant and a cornerstone of country and such a n OG hippie

Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 1d

Country fans are upset with Zach Bryan after he criticized ICE in a song.

But don't let it be known that Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Johnny Cash all despised fascism and leaned heavily to the left.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 13h

“For the average person that is interested in getting their Covid-19 vaccine, you will be able to do as you’ve always done. You should reach out to your provider, whether that’s a pharmacist or a physician…”

Covid Shots Are About to Be Widely Available Again

The CDC no longer broadly recommends the Covid-19 vaccine, but US residents will still be able to get one if they want.

www.wired.com

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

It is also remarkable how far what is essentially advertising copy has penetrated into ostensibly neutral, scholarly contextualizations even of critical studies — rote invocations of AI’s “power,” “potential,” and ubiquity, untethered to any specific sources or data, are just background noise now.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

Imagine studying a technology whose presence in the classroom is so detrimental to the development of writing and research skills (including even the will to know the sources behind claims!) that mitigating its effects becomes a central goal of course design, and concluding with tips on adopting it.

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Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 16h

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.

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

“Google updated its policy after publication of this story.”

Google told employees: If you want health benefits, sign up with a third-party AI tool

Google rolled out a third-party AI tool for health benefits, sparking concerns about data privacy and consent among Googlers.

www.businessinsider.com

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Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 15h

Nooope.

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