By the way, now that we have big players like Meta entering the Fediverse, it would be great if they could sponsor some development on child safety tooling for Mastodon and other large ActivityPub implementations, as well as work with an outside organization to make a hosted hash database clearinghouse for the Fediverse. It would be quite cheap for them, and would make the ecosystem as a whole a lot nicer. /thread
Technology Policy Program Director
The American Civil Liberties Union of Washington (ACLU-WA) is seeking a passionate and strategic advocate to help lead its efforts to identify and address civil liberties issues arising from the use and development of new technologies. Application Deadline: August 9, 2023
DC friends - I'm coming to DC next weekend, please let me know if you are free to hang out! It's my first trip in . . . uh . . . three years? Longer?
How is AI impacting the future of creative industries? How are scholars challenging traditional ideas about art and technology? @
[email protected] & I will be discussing privacy + art + genAI next Weds @ 2023 Spring Symposium on May 24:
https://hai.stanford.edu/events/creativity-age-ai-ai-impacting-arts-arts-impacting-ai
Spring Symposium | Creativity in the Age of AI: AI Impacting Arts, Arts Impacting AI
How is AI impacting the arts, and how are the arts impacting AI? Join us for our Spring Symposium for a conversation among technologists, scholars, and creatives – including both commercial and non-commercial sectors – about creativity in the age of AI from aesthetic, technical, social, ethical and legal perspectives.
@shauna My great grandfather also died this way in 1916 - his death certificate notes he was "torn in two." The accident left my grandfather an orphan. I think our family has experienced the impact of that incident for at least two generations.
Berkeley: when you pull up to Target on your Xtracycle only to find all available bike rack parking taken up by other Xtracycles.
The humans who wrote all those words online overrepresent white people. They overrepresent men. They overrepresent wealth. What’s more, we all know what’s out there on the internet: vast swamps of racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, neo-Nazism."
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html /end
This! "Tech-makers assuming their reality accurately represents the world create many different kinds of problems. The training data for ChatGPT is believed to include most or all of Wikipedia, pages linked from Reddit, a billion words grabbed off the internet. (It can’t include, say, e-book copies of everything in the Stanford library, as books are protected by copyright law.) 1/
@dangoodin Had the honor of speaking here for the first time this year. Sad it could be the last.
@joebeone and
@Wednesday did a fabulous job organizing this year.
David Thiel