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Glen O'Hara @gsoh31.bsky.social · 9h

Coverage of Badenoch's speech was one of the worst examples ever of Westminster Brain and Lobbythink. A litany of nonsense applauded by a policy elite that can't even think three moves ahead. (1/3)

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

Also that, but if the next lot has it then.. is that gonna help us

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

I just really dislike the UK approach. It’s very much based on populist standpoints instead of actually doing something useful

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

😛😛😛 looks like they’re consulting with the Tony Blair institute on this one ☠️

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

This is going to create yet more oligarchies of unelected tech company bosses who administer access to society without any scrutiny.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

If you don’t conform to society’s idea of the “right” citizen this can be dangerous - and it can exclude older adults who are not tech literate from services (like QR codes during the pandemic did).

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

If predictions for what these digital ID technologies will be used for are met, they are likely to then be used to access the platforms citizens utilise for work &/or social networking, tying their jobs and political views to their government issued identity.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

Digital ID is likely to exclude marginalised demographics such as SWs & trans people from society unless they create one, like removal from social media has: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

The Emotional and Financial Impact of De-Platforming on Creators at the Margins - Carolina Are, Pam Briggs, 2023

This study provides one of the first examples of de-platforming’s direct emotional and financial impact on Instagram and TikTok content creators at the margins....

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 13d

What’s wrong with the UK govt #digitalidentity plans? *eyerolls*
the utter disregard for previous research & lived experience showing how technosolutionist & overly risk-focused approaches to #onlinesafety affect civil liberties & the safety of marginalised people.

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Keir Starmer to announce plans for digital ID scheme - BBC News

The prime minister believes a new scheme would help crack down on illegal working in the UK.

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Gillian Branstetter @gbbranstetter.bsky.social · 26d

I am having a hard time reconciling "Charlie Kirk was a fierce advocate of open dialogue and free expression" with "we must identify and persecute everyone who is insufficiently mournful"

After Charlie Kirk's death, teachers and professors nationwide fired or disciplined over social media posts

At least a dozen faculty and staff have faced fallout over insensitive comments online.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · 29d

Now that the @aoir.bsky.social 2025 Timetable is live, catch our panel: "PLATFORM GOVERNANCE AT THE MARGINS: RULES, RELATIONS AND RESISTANCE" on 17 Oct at 2pm! Loved putting it together w/ Samuel Cabbuag, Crystal Abidin, Ruepert Cao, @zaritaylor.bsky.social, Kiara Child & @cjpersaud.bsky.social 🤟

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Sep 8

It’s almost as if the media had learnt nothing about how Brexit and Trump came to be. It’s almost as if they didn’t care.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Sep 8

Most mainstream media platforming Farage as if his win was inevitable, with little fact-checking or evidence of his lies’ effects on the UK, shows a carelessness or worse, negligence over how his baseless claims are re-packaged as social media clips fed to algorithms on loop.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Sep 8

Ngl not loving the idea of coming back to the UK after a while away today to painted roundabouts, Farage hype & pensioners under arrest for peaceful protests. Hating this entirely spin-stoked xenophobic vibes & forgetfulness of Brexit lies. This isn’t the country I moved to in 2011 🥲

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

Bc of this, considering the experiences, hopes & fears of all workers – incl creative workers – remains paramount towards the development and future governance of responsible and trusted AI, but also the development of tools and services that add to rather than detract from the human experience

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

If the fast-paced, de-regulated growth of the internet and social media platforms leading to almost ungovernable spaces is anything to go by, a laissez-fair approach to GenAI that does not properly count the human costs and benefits will likely lead to further harm and inequalities.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

The rush towards GenAI gold seems to be solely an industry affair, showing that tech companies do not seem to know who they are creating these products for beyond themselves and their earnings.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

While people with a limited understanding of AI shared more dystopian views than others, it is striking that even our 400 participants’ most positive expectations did not reflect the kinds of utopian GenAI scenarios espoused by #BigTech companies pushing for industry growth.

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

Based on existing tech inequalities, participants shared fears of censorship, targeted advertising, unfair decision-making, copyright infringement and the non-consensual sharing of private data, as well as AI’s potential threats to democracy with deepfakes & misinformation;

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

When recruiting, we found that posting survey links on X & including keywords like “AI” resulted in spam, multiple & (ironically) AI-generated responses, which meant we had to select less contributions than those submitted. This shows AI can be a threat to the production of knowledge & research;

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

Our creators saw #GenAI more as an opportunity to lighten their workload than as a creative aid, reflecting existing precarity and overwhelm with workload that are typical of the creator economy;

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

A key fear our participants reported was the previously under-researched idea of “loss”: a loss of enjoyment arising from learning a new skill or craft, which was central to creative workers’ motivation to work in their field and which they feared to lose if AI could perform tasks for them;

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

Some of our key points ⤵️ #Contentcreators and creative workers are too often overlooked in future imaginaries and/or industry predictions about #AI. No one tends to ask them what they need from the industry, or to focus on how they’ll be affected;

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Dr Carolina Are / Blogger On Pole @bloggeronpole.bsky.social · Aug 30

Just in time before I take a break: my paper with @pamogranite.bsky.social and Richard Brown focusing on content creators’ hopes and fears about #artificialintelligence is out, open access, in Convergence: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

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