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Padmini RM

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founder @ designbeku.in. ♥️: design and data justice, embroidery, tango and cats. 🤬: "design thinking", "innovation," #AIhype & patriarchy. ➕ Regional ambassador for South Asia, Art and Feminism; Research Partner, Flickr Foundation.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Jul 16

Very glad to share this piece where I explain why LLMs & AI in their current formations are unlikely to be fair & ethical in their representations of the Majority World. I make recommendations on how we might shift these imbalances, and what needs to be done in order to do so. bit.ly/3IMlgbr

The Machines Are Not All Right: Rethinking (Artificial) Intelligence • In Plainspeak

Can AI truly understand human experience without our language, identity, and history? This piece explores how current models fall short and where hope lies in community-driven, inclusive approaches.

www.tarshi.net

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 2d

Just used this while facilitating an artist's residency encouraging them to challenge narratives about AI: used the Du Bois anecdote about his very intentional choices re: exhibiting to explain how to imagine the phenomenological relationship to data in space. They're keen to read it now!

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 3d

Realising the academy only has itself to blame for the AI driven student plagiarism problem (at least in the humanities and social sciences) still largely entrenched in ossified modes of making knowledge available rewarded by systems like tenure made it easy for formulaic templates easy to emulate.

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 3d

Sure, but a damaging one after a point, no? As @roopikarisam.bsky.social said upthread, we know this but the ostensible truth claim of it can be damaging to those when applied to contexts for which it is not appropriate.

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 4d

Yes! Exactly the hope with my current project about indigeneity + small language models :) if communities are sharing knowledge, and we’re thinking of that as “data” - I’m interested in how they are semantically imagining that knowledge; I’m hoping that we’ll find smthg cognate but different.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 4d

Haha, but I’m grateful for you allowing yourself to be briefly distracted, this is so useful tysm. For me there’s *smthng* between the commons and what we call data but I’m guessing I’ll probably find the answer when your book comes out :D

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 4d

@roopikarisam.bsky.social @laurenfklein would love to hear from you on this!

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · 4d

What are we doing about the semantic drift of the word data? In my explorations of indigeneity and data sovereignty, the word data feels less and less adequate for what it represents in this context. Ironically, data anchored in its original etymological context: what is given - is most appropriate.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Sep 5

*sighs in anne carson*

Laura @lauropea.bsky.social · Oct 22

Me: I'm feeling really Sapphic

You: Tell me more 😏

Me: ............... and if
......... [thy]me......
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hands.......... [swan, or possibly an extinct species of gourd]
.........................s

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Aug 7

At a cultural sector conference + got into an argument w/ a self proclaimed technoutopian: after I declared capitalism is always inevitably corrupt: I was asked what the alternative is, accused of being socialist - I realised the model I want to see is not communist or socialist but *feminist*

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Aug 3

Srsly why won't people realise that gen ai is just the most obsequious customer service dressed up as information making you believe it's knowledge

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · Aug 3

Going to start calling chatbots sycophancy as a service.

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Fossilized Tree Sap @amberrl.bsky.social · Jul 26

Yes hello I need to speak to the manager of native Minnesota raspberries

Variety
Himbo Top™
Berry Color
Red
Ripening time
Early-mid
Description
Large fruit with good
flavor. Hardy to zone

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Jul 16

Yay! Would love to hear your thoughts 💗

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Jul 16

The Machines Are Not All Right: Rethinking (Artificial) Intelligence • In Plainspeak

Can AI truly understand human experience without our language, identity, and history? This piece explores how current models fall short and where hope lies in community-driven, inclusive approaches.

www.tarshi.net

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no. @joles.bsky.social · May 5

applying for jobs again

screenshot from an online job application form. the question reads "Can you describe specific ways you have integrated AI tools into your development workflow? Please include any custom setups, automations, or use cases beyond single prompt usage" (a red asterisk indicates that this is a required question).

an answer has been typed in the textbox below the question:

"there is a monster in the forest and it speaks with a thousand voices. it will answer any question you pose it, it will offer insight to any idea. it will help you, it will thank you, it will never bid you leave. it will even tell you of the darkest arts, if you know precisely how to ask.

it feels no joy and no sorrow, it knows no right and no wrong. it knows not truth from lie, though it speaks them all the same.

it offers its services freely to any passerby, and many will tell you they find great value in its conversation. “you simply must visit the monster—i always just ask the monster.”

there are those who know these forests well; they will tell you that freely offered doesn’t mean it has no price

for when the next traveler passes by, the monster speaks with a thousand and one voices. and when you dream you see the monster; the monster wears your face."

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Jul 10

is it my ignorance that leads me to believe that the early groundbreaking work of Alison Adam in feminist rethinking of the epistemological basis of AI is really not as central to teaching and research in the field as it should be?

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Jun 17

somewhat: just the representation of the language is not sufficient, though. I'm keen to see how comprehensively it covers dialects, slang, colloquialisms -- have you had a chance to explore that further?

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · May 19

That's an ex student :D

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · May 19

DM'd you

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · May 18

Vertigo?

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Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 18

It’s no longer possible to argue that social media giants aren’t publishers. Algorithms are being juiced to favour particular voices and worldviews. They are not even playing fields.

Will Jennings 🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · May 17

Doesn't sound like a pivot

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · May 18

Zahra Rizvi and Xenia Zeiler might be good bets too...

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · May 18

Yes! And of several colleagues too, including the fab Souvik. (Unless he's who dropped out?) I can send you some names (I don't have bandwidth right now alas)

Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · May 15

question for the hivemind: are there any countries where there is implemented regulation that compulsorily requires digital products to declare that a customer/user is interacting with an AI agent and not a human?

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Jon Walmsley @arghzombies.com · Apr 20

I went to the Tate Modern yesterday. In the Rothko room with all the Serious Art Connoisseurs there was a ~5 year old kid who walked up to each painting, pointed at it and shouted 'RECTANGLE' at each one in turn, then left the room.

Rothko room at the Tate modern, London. Several dark red / purple canvasses with a rectangle or two painted on them.

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Padmini RM @padmini.bsky.social · Apr 4

Eee! I had forgotten you're there :D messaging