Isabelle Levent
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Isabelle Levent
Philosophy and
It would be easy to think of the character of AI models as a product feature, deliberately aimed at providing a more interesting user experience, rather than an alignment intervention. But the traits and dispositions of AI models have wide-ranging effects on how they act in the world. They determine how models react to new and difficult situations,... See more
Claude’s Character
In many instances, to say that some technologies are inherently political is to say that certain widely accepted reasons of practical necessity–especially the need to maintain critical technological systems as smoothly working entities–have tended to eclipse other sorts of moral and political reasoning.
Langdon Winner • Do Artifacts Have Politics?
The you you are today is not the you you were yesterday.
Another week, another AI experiment using #dalle2 and @runwayml
This time AI was used to animated face masks, generate jewelry and create organic rock formations
#aiart #vfx #ai https://t.co/2re82hOksg
Paul Trillotwitter.comAcademically, this is a collision of everything from computer science and art history to media studies to disruptive innovation to labor economics, and no one of these disciplines seems sufficient to cover the topic.
Aaron Hertzmann • When Machines Change Art
The Lab’s mission is also to develop a critical literacy that can help cultural institutions approach AI technologies as advanced and multilayered media. While reliant on the highly specialised theoretical work needed to untangle issues such as ‘distributed authorship’ (Ascott 2005; Zeilinger 2021) involved in artistic research, the Lab does not
... See moreCreative AI Lab • Creative—Critical—Constructive —Collaborative—Computational: Towards a C5 model in Creative AI
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They will shade our constant submissions to the vast digital commons, intentional or consensual or mandatory, with the knowledge that every selfie or fragment of text is destined to become a piece of general-purpose training data for the attempted automation of everything. They will be used on people in extremely creative ways, with and without
... See moreJohn Herrman • Why Artificial Intelligence Often Feels Like Magic
Our intuitive moral understanding of actors and transgressions may be at odds with the inherent complexity of AI systems.