Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
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Those Olympic AI ads feel bad for a reason
The accessibility and scale of AI tools mean they could have an outsized impact on how almost any community is represented. According to Valeria Piaggio, global head of diversity, equity, and inclusion at marketing consultancy Kantar, the marketing and advertising industries have in recent years made strides in how they represent different groups, ... See more
Victoria Turk • How AI reduces the world to stereotypes
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Outside of film, people tell credible dystopian AI narratives around entrenching wokeism more deeply, or worse, replacing human work. AI can be a symbiotic partner to human creativity and thought, but the optimistic story needs to be shared.
AI’s positive mission is not as crystallized as crypto’s, or at least not yet.
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In the tech world, for now, AI’s brand could not be stronger: It’s associated with opportunity, potential, growth, and excitement. For everyone else, it’s becoming interchangeable with things that sort of suck.
Rob Horning • Artificial Intentionality
sensationalist headlines conjuring fears of a techno-dystopian near-future overshadow more material issues over AI ethics that already exist – including how they reflect human biases, and the many ways in which they’re capable of manipulating users.
Why we should worry less about ‘sentient’ AIs and more about what we’re teaching them | Aeon Videos
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Artificial Intelligence is a watershed moment for the media, where liars and scammers and hucksters get rich every time that a fanciful claim is left untouched, and where products are built upon a foundation of stolen content interpreted by a model that doesn’t actually know anything — because AI can’t, by definition, know anything. And yet we’re s... See more
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In its desperate hunger for clicks, much of the media has decided to endorse a maximalist interpretation of what AI might do. I’ve cataloged them before: disrupt every industry, eliminate poverty and need, send us off of into the stars, end death. Or, alternatively, threaten everything we’ve built, provoke dystopia, exterminate humanity. Take your ... See more
Our Dystopian AI Future Isn't Skynet. It's a "For You" Algorithm Stomping on a Human Face Forever
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It’s been a while since a particular piece of technology has felt as fraught, efficient, and consequential as today’s text-to-image AI art-generation tools like DALL-E 2 and Midjourney.
The Atlantic • What’s Really Behind Those AI Art Images?
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