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Laraness
@laraness.bsky.social
Nature-loving travel enthusiast watching movies through the dark northern months and swimming through the light ones. Cross-stitch, foraging, and fermentation ambitions. Leftish politics and everyday work of trying to save the planet.
A bias in AI is a reflection of bias across all the content and communications we make. It's not just about falling the wrong direction for the environment, but also about what a planetary narrative means for us people, empowerment, and action.

theconversation.com/ai-is-bad-fo...
AI is bad for the environment, and the problem is bigger than energy consumption
When asked to suggest solutions for environmental challenges, chatbots reflected biases. This could have harmful effects on how we understand and communicate climate change.
theconversation.com
January 30, 2025 at 6:14 AM
Down from Vinted, stuffed in an IKEA bag, and given away at the kulturhus bytemarked 👍 👌
January 26, 2025 at 2:18 PM
Reposted by Laraness
Ours is an era of obsession as much as distraction. “To ascribe our woes to a society-wide attention-deficit disorder is to make the wrong diagnosis,” Daniel Immerwahr writes.
What if the Attention Crisis Is All a Distraction?
From the pianoforte to the smartphone, each wave of tech has sparked fears of brain rot. But the problem isn’t our ability to focus—it’s what we’re focussing on.
www.newyorker.com
January 25, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Have you noticed that Twitter-like platforms lean more on images, and image platforms lean more on text? All the boundaries and identity merge. In the end we are just trying to express ourselves.
January 26, 2025 at 9:32 AM