Rumman Chowdhury
@ruchowdh
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Responsible AI. Anti Elon Social Club.
@rachelmetz congratulations!!!
Kashmir HillThe artist revolt against AI-powered art generators is in full swing. Artists have filed a class-action lawsuit in California against Stability AI and Midjourney. They've raised money for a D.C. lobbyist. And soon they will have a technological countermeasure, a tool designed by U of Chicago computer scientists that will "cloak" art posted online so that it won't be "feeding this monster that becomes more and more like them." My latest: https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/13/technology/ai-art-generator-lensa-stable-diffusion.html
Every election cycle I find it fascinating the number of south Asian Americans who think they pass as white because they’re wealthy, did all the “right things” and have white features and hair (if not skin). I’d love to read anything written about it.
Hi all! I’ll be live on @NPR Science Friday tomorrow with Melanie Mitchell of the Santa Fe Institute! We’ll be talking all things AI, including yes, ChatGPT. Tune in and ask us some questions!
When Harvard Law School says you’re greedy, that’s something else https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4330393
SOUPS ConferenceFirst toot from the official account of Symposium on Usable Privacy and Security! 👋
📢 Call for papers for #SOUPS2023 is out! The paper submission deadline is February 16, 2023. (Make sure to register your submissions by February 10!)
https://www.usenix.org/conference/soups2023/call-for-papers
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At risk of sounding like a cliche, limiting social media hasn’t left a hole but instead left room for other things to grow. There’s no fomo, no missed connections. I still meet new people and read good papers and learn lots of things. There’s nothing to prove and no one to prove it to.
Robin Stephenson@mhoye @arclight @otfrom the European Spreadsheet Risk Interest Group has a collection of gloriously horrifying stories starring Excel: https://eusprig.org/research-info/horror-stories/
Their conference is back this year; Chatham House rules and really fun/scary/interesting: https://easychair.org/cfp/EuSpRIG_2023
Bill, organizer of stuffDecades of research prove that the best way to end homelessness is...
Give people a home. Seriously. That's it. No strings, no prerequisites, no faith-based, holistic, means-tested, yoga-cebtric meditation parole. Just a home.
