"The surest way to ignore such misalignment [profit vs. social value] is by focusing exclusively on technical questions about #AI model capabilities, divorced from the socio-economic environment in which these models will operate [...]"
https://theconversation.com/to-understand-the-risks-posed-by-ai-follow-the-money-225872
On my reading list - 3 books on understanding and resisting #Enshittification, but it's all such hard work😣
- https://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262547420/algorithms-of-resistance/
- https://nyupress.org/9781479837243/algorithms-of-oppression/
- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/304513/weapons-of-math-destruction-by-oneil-cathy/9780141985411
Also reading these - all related to #GAI, but need to get 💯% organised in how I'm reading all this stuff & going to write about it in relation to #AcWri:
- https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-we-cant-afford-the-rich/9B7A3F29535B7C6F8E0F711A540E608A
- https://profiles.ucl.ac.uk/48721-john-o'regan/publications
- https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321857/caliban-and-the-witch-by-federici-silvia/9780241532539
#Capitalism, and why it's just not ok!
This is GOOD - it implicates many in capitalist rentier neoliberal economies, where unearned income accrues from interest, rent, shares, capital gains - including those who earn a wage by working but aren't #Wealthy #Rich #SuperRich nor benefit from #InheritedWealth
https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/why-we-cant-afford-the-rich/9B7A3F29535B7C6F8E0F711A540E608A
Seemingly unrelated thoughts but connected to #WhyWeCantAffordTheRich?
I've been invited to a symposium on #WhatMakesWritingAcademic @ Warwick Uni, UK, & hope issue of #English #AcademicPublishing & #Capitalism come up:
https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/what-makes-writing-academic-9781350243965/
Dr Julia Molinari PhD SFHEA
