My stance on #LLM :

1. There _might_ be some useful use cases with this technology that could be worth exploring.

2. However, it is glaringly obvious that, as of now, their main purpose is to power the mother of all investments bubbles.

3. Which leads us to the present trillion dollar business case for "we must build energy- and water-wasting data centers everywhere so that we can scrape every single website a thousand times a month for new training data!"

4. Thus, there is currently pretty much no ethical way of using LLMs.

5. Any ethical exploration of LLM use cases will thus have to wait until the bubble has burst, the investors have moved on to the next scam, and we can sort through the rubble to check what is left.

If you're in Linz on May 16th, please come and hear me talk about how bad the European Commission's "Digital Omnibus" is for us. I'd love to see you there!

Also, please have a look at all the other wonderful contributions to this year's Art Meets Radical Openness festival taking place in Linz from May 13th to 16th.

https://radical-openness.org/en/programm/2026/fodder-machine-european-commissions-plans-facilitate-building-generative-models-our
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#amro26 #privacy #DataProtection #GDPR #DigitalOmnibus

Please read this full open letter sign 🖋️ and circulate ♻️

Open Letter: Stop the Uncritical Adoption of AI Technologies in Academia

https://openletter.earth/open-letter-stop-the-uncritical-adoption-of-ai-technologies-in-academia-b65bba1e?limit=0

"The production and promotion of so-called "AI" technology involves dehumanization on many fronts: the computational metaphor valorises one kind of cognitive activity as “intelligence,” devaluing many other aspects of human experience while taking an isolating, individualistic view of agency, ignoring the importance of communities and webs of relationships. Meanwhile, the purpose of humans is framed as being labelers of data or interchangeable machine components. Data collected about people is understood as "ground truth" even while it lies about those people, especially marginalized people. In this talk, Bender will explore these processes of dehumanization and the vital role that the humanities have in resisting these trends by painting a deeper and richer picture of what it is to be human."—Simpson Center

Resisting Dehumanization in the Age of "AI": The View from the Humanities, Emily M. Bender @emilymbender >

https://youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ?si=DZH2pTYXOq-xUOOl

#speech #AI #social_science
#LLM #dehumanization #dataset #disabling_intelligence #technology #bias #racism #grand_truth #models #sociology #humanities #personality #prediction #reductionism #curating #classification_systems #big_data #marginalization #ghost_workers #micro_workers #micro_tasks #physiognomy #false_matches #facial_recognition #video

⭐️HUGE WIN: Europe’s largest private jet sales fair has been officially CANCELLED! 🚫

3 years ago, Greenpeace Switzerland activists together with Extinction Rebellion, StayGrounded and Scientist Rebellion took direct peaceful climate action to confront #EBACE. This action raised awareness of the catastrophic environmental impact of private jets which eventually led to its cancellation.

‚Meta wertet das Wort »Antifa« in Verbindung mit »Gewalt« künftig als potenziellen Verstoß gegen seine Richtlinien – allerdings mit unklaren Regeln!

Die Aufforderung »Nazis jagen« in Verbindung mit »Antifa« könnte bei Instagram und Facebook zur Kontosperrung führen.….‘

#Facebook und #Instagram weiten Sanktionen zu #Antifa aus

https://www.nd-aktuell.de/artikel/1199048.meta-konzern-facebook-und-instagram-weiten-sanktionen-zu-antifa-aus.html

#Repression #SocialMedia #Antifaschismus #Zensur

☕ Happy Friday.

This is how we do Coffee Day in #gaza.

Two cups. One child. One tiny kitten who showed up uninvited — and stayed.

He didn't ask why the chair is rusty or why we sit on the ground. He just held his cup and smiled.

That smile is why I keep going. Why I keep asking.

Today is your day to join us. Donate the price of your coffee and pull up a chair at our table.

We saved you a seat. 🪑

https://chuffed.org/project/help-mai-and-the-gaza-camp-kids
#gazavisaprogram #stopgenocide #coffeelovers #CatsOfMastodon

#TalkAboutHumanities

We need scholars across the humanities, because these are the fields where we study what it is to be human, to inhabit different identities, and to connect with each other, to be human together.

https://youtu.be/T7Lc6QNxolQ?si=0G8Sw0bTUqD5dq5_&t=3244