TLDR: to 'solve' trash content on trash surveillance platforms, BigTech AI will flag whether content is 'good' or not. Can we please stop falling for this? This isn't 'solving' the problem. It's simply consolidating control over platforms w/o attending to who will wield it.
@mer__edith
-
Extremism and the erosion of free speech defense
By
–
And, sadly, the fairly predictable result of abandoning defense of speech and expression to extremists.
-
Free Expression Under Threat: AI and Dissent Rights
By
–
Incredibly alarming for anyone invested in free expression and the right to dissent.
-
Video Resource for Class Learning and Study Enhancement
By
–
I used to assign this to my class and found it was a great primer, and helped augment the reading. https://
youtube.com/watch?v=PodKki
9g2Pw
… -
Israeli Military Deploys Lavender AI System in Gaza Operations
By
–
Some more info here https://
972mag.com/lavender-ai-is
raeli-army-gaza/
… -
1969 MIT Research Strike: Scientists Rejecting Weaponized Applications
By
–
I also recommend this fortifying history, documenting the 1969 research strike that began at MIT and spread across universities as scientists claimed their dignity and rejected the use of their work for murder and pain-bringing.
-
Tech Workers Organizing Against Harmful AI Violence Applications
By
–
If you, like me, feel sick when you process what's actually happening here, @NoTechApartheid are leading organizing in the long tradition of scientists and tech workers standing up against violence machines.
-
Cloud AI Companies Implicated in Surveillance System Facilitating Mass Murder
By
–
There is almost no way the large cloud companies providing massive compute services AI surveillance & data processing APIs aren't implicated in the system of 'ad targeting for death' being used to facilitate mass murder in Gaza. This is a nightmare. And it's going to take
-
Conscience Canada: AI Ethics and Digital Consciousness Precedent
By
–
Here’s one precedent I know about https://
consciencecanada.ca/?page_id=482 -
Technology Unemployment and Worker Displacement in the Industrial Era
By
–
Also that he was thrown in the river by out of work loom assistants pissed about the way his invention had been used as a pretext to deprive them of resources/the waged work via which resources were distributed