Adam Harvey

@adamhrv
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Artist and researcher: ahprojects.com
Computer vision developer: vframe.io

Topics: data, politics, media, surveillance, privacy, security, biometrics, datasets, yolo.
Art & Researchhttps://ahprojects.com
Computer vision developerhttps://vframe.io
Researchhttps://exposing.ai
Adam HarveyDec 7, 2022
Noam Chomsky on LLMs:
> “When you have a theory there are two kinds of questions you have to ask. Why are things this way? Why are things not that way? If you don’t get the second question you’ve done nothing.”
https://podcasts.apple.com/de/podcast/machine-learning-street-talk-mlst/id1510472996?i=1000569314505
‎Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST): MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition) auf Apple Podcasts

‎Sendung Machine Learning Street Talk (MLST), Folge MLST #78 - Prof. NOAM CHOMSKY (Special Edition) – 8. Juli 2022

Apple Podcasts
Adam HarveyDec 6, 2022
Media poisoning https://academic.oup.com/brain/article/145/2/476/6356504
Stop that! It’s not Tourette’s but a new type of mass sociogenic illness

Müller-Vahl et al. report the first outbreak of a new type of mass sociogenic illness that is spread solely via social media. The condition, which typically aff

OUP Academic
Adam HarveyDec 4, 2022
Mainstream media also has a huge surveillance problem. A 2016 Princeton University study concluded that “news sites have the most trackers” https://webtransparency.cs.princeton.edu/webcensus/index.html
Online tracking: A 1-million-site measurement and analysis

Adam HarveyDec 3, 2022
“advertising is the most powerful and sustained system of propaganda in human history and its cumulative cultural and political effects unless very quickly checked will be responsible for destroying the world as we know it. In the process of achieving this the masters of the advertising system, global corporations bent on nothing but private profits, will be responsible for the deaths of millions of people, mostly non-Western.”
- Sut Jhally 2010
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WNy9s5qR4i0
Advertising & the Perfect Storm - Sut Jhally

YouTube
Adam HarveyDec 1, 2022
fan~_tas_~tic
Djot, a lightweight markup lang https://github.com/jgm/djot
GitHub - jgm/djot: A light markup language

A light markup language. Contribute to jgm/djot development by creating an account on GitHub.

GitHub
Adam HarveyDec 1, 2022
𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇Dec 1, 2022

This is interesting! Bicycles to rule the streets of #Bruges.

This city in #Belgium is taking a new approach to prioritizing bicycle use. On 90 streets, bikes will automatically have priority over cars.

In addition, they're offering residents a €500 subsidy to ditch cars.

Adam HarveyNov 29, 2022
Adam HarveyNov 16, 2022
Eric Schmidt, former Google CEO, on platforms:
> "The ability to control a platform is the sexy thing in geopolitics. If you control a platform you can control behavior, you can control economics, you can control a thought."
Adam HarveyNov 22, 2022
"To pay by selfie is also to invest in facial surveillance futures."
Essay on selfies, front-matter, and biometric data commissioned by HMKV.de
https://ahprojects.com/todays-selfie
Today's Selfie Is Tomorrow's Biometric Profile

Today's Selfie Is Tomorrow's Biometric Profile Essay commissioned by Hartware MedienKunstVerein for the House of Mirrors exhibition. Available in book or PDF format. In Greek mythology Narcissus became transfixed and paralyzed by the beauty of his own reflection, ultimately leading to his ruin. Today a similar tragedy is occurring in the reflecting pool of social media where the allure of selfies has contributed to the rise of biometric surveillance technologies.

Adam HarveyNov 18, 2022
#RIPSocialMedia
Adam HarveyNov 16, 2022
Julian OliverNov 16, 2022