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09/24/2024

does not consist of “virtual ” but rather that can reproduce the stolen contributions of experts. It does not lead to “shared .” Instead, it burdens those struggling with the impacts of with further losses of water and energy and the lasting impacts of .

In the next couple of decades, we will be able to do things that would have seemed like magic to our grandparents.

09/05/2024

Governments in stricken and regions should not be the only ones bearing the responsibility of pushing back against ’s guzzling of the world’s . We each have the to choose not to use for unnecessary purposes.

A conversation with Chat GPT can consume a bottle of water. So why is big tech setting up AI in some of the world’s driest countries?

09/04/2024

We are grateful to for offering the this primer on the environmental costs of . It is now the responsibility of each of to carefully consider whether our use of these justifies this level of destruction.

A Blog post by Sasha Luccioni on Hugging Face

09/03/2024

’s (and other companies’) desire to “offer a product that generates [and ] with little effort” is precisely the problem for . It is in the offering of intense that we create something of value to contribute to our fellow humans.

To create a novel or a painting, an artist makes choices that are fundamentally alien to artificial intelligence.

08/30/2024

“It's going to be expensive,” says Sam Altman of . Yes, but who is paying the price? It’s those who have had work stolen without or . It is those living in areas where is being diverted to cooling centers rather than growing or caring for and the . We pay the price. They reap the .

Claims about much-hyped tech show flawed understanding of language and cognition, research argues

08/29/2024

We would do well to worry about the inevitability in use (“There’s not going to be a ”) and the costs to when serve to block access to those (like landlords) with the power and responsibility to improve the lives of those in their care.

Everyone at this conference kept invoking loneliness and claiming the antidote was conversation. That didn’t track with my own experience. My most desperate moments of loneliness have been in conversation: on a Hinge date, doomed but persisting as a form of protocol. At a publishing party, surroun...

08/28/2024

“In a world where Elon Musk seems to have proven that practically no privately owned forum is immune from a single rich person’s whims, stands as a counterfactual: evidence that capitalism and capitalism—hell, , period—are not the only paths forward for the future of .”

On its 10th anniversary, Signal’s president wants to remind you that the world’s most secure communications platform is a nonprofit. It’s free. It doesn’t track you or serve you ads. It pays its engineers very well. And it’s a go-to app for hundreds of millions of people.

08/22/2024

“Tech giants are poised to become some of the biggest users of the future as they race to develop power-hungry , potentially threatening their commitments to . Ahead of that, they are working behind the scenes to shape a once-in-a-decade of the rules governing how from power use is disclosed.”

Critics say a proposed change could allow large energy users to hide their true emissions

08/20/2024

Do we not see the absurdity in an system where are using to create plans and learning activities, are using AI to compose their , and teachers are returning to AI to and comment on that work?

Colleges still don’t have a plan.

08/14/2024

An important and comprehensive new detailing over 700 potential risks of (as documented in -reviewed journals and preprint databases). As the note, “to manage these potential , we first need to know what they are.”

Its creators hope their work could lead to further research to determine which risks to take more seriously.

08/13/2024

“Narratives of inevitability provide convenient cover for companies to secure their desired ends, minimize , and convince that they are buying into a necessary, if not necessarily desirable, ”.

An abandoned Australian ‘experiment’ shows that the public can successfully object to what companies and politicians claim is inevitable progress

08/08/2024

“Despite 96% of C-suite expecting AI to boost , the study reveals that 77% of employees using say it has added to their workload and created challenges in achieving the expected productivity gains.”

Despite 96% of C-suite executives expecting AI to boost productivity, employees say it has increased their workload, hampered productivity and caused job burnout, research shows.

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