#AI systems accelerate the pace of war. "AI can contribute to mis- or disinformation, creating and amplifying dangerous misunderstandings in times of war. AI systems may increase the human tendency to trust suggestions from machines (this is highlighted by the Habsora system, named after the infallible word of God)".
"If a person has enough similarities to other people labelled as an enemy combatant, they too may be labelled a combatant themselves."

https://theconversation.com/israels-ai-can-produce-100-bombing-targets-a-day-in-gaza-is-this-the-future-of-war-219302 @ethics @ai

#warfare

#AI delivers

By design #generativeAI delivers whatever.
How it works is that the engineer takes obtained #data, grabs some probabilities and then the software outputs answers at scale.
If answers could be "true" is out of the scope.

image via @jvschrag @ethics

#AI enables acceleration to replace humans with machines.
@alex and @emilymbender are working on clarifying that: #TheAICon.
@estelle already has food for thought: https://techhub.social/@estelle/111811330219400218

#technoCriticism #techBros #tech #acceleration #growth #convergence#dataGovernance#responsibleAI #technique

#AI performs

By design #generativeAI is extremely hungry in resources: https://mas.to/@maugendre/111841507744115766

#AI already serves to transform ways of working. You can even industrialize killing: https://techhub.social/@estelle/111505251994013079

#productivity #brutalization #duty #protocol #conformance#AIRisks #risks #dehumanisation#AIWar #efficiency #innovation#Targeting#DataScience#Unit8200 #patriotism#OSINT#CROSINT#MilInt #military #army#Lotem#Habsora#Lavender#LavenderAI#Gaza#Hamas#warCrimes #israel #productivity

@zleap
AI companies should be forced to watermark their generated video stuff. Tools could then be integrated in the Fediverse, for example, to automatically identify such bs.
#ai #kamelaharris

@tchambers

I think the most evil thing about #elonmusk sharing Ai generated voice clips of #harris is that he is a massive proponent of generative #ai and yet knowingly shares a video that abuses its application, in hopes of fooling people who don’t know better.

To him this isn’t a big or an abuse, but a feature of Ai. To manipulate people and distort their perception of reality. As long as people like him exist, there is no good future where Ai is embraced.

Big stars can earn six-figure paychecks these days for their work in videogames – but the starting rate is $902. And earning even that 3-figure paycheck is endangered by #AI.

SAG-AFTRA is now on strike against the major #gaming studios over these issues:
https://theconversation.com/video-game-performers-are-becoming-hollywood-stars-in-their-own-right-and-are-on-strike-to-be-paid-and-protected-accordingly-235574

"- AI isn't going to replace you at work. But it's already augmenting your shitty boss's ability to rip you off, torment you, maim you and even kill you in order to eke out a few more basis points for the next shareholder report..." - @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/11/robots-stole-my-jerb/#computer-says-no#tech #ai #business #employment

AI interview services say they eliminate bias. @restofworld looks at the experience of being interviewed by an AI avatar, what experts say about the issue of bias, and how some candidates are now turning to AI themselves.

https://restofworld.org/2024/ai-interview-software-hiring-practices/

#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Tech#Technology#Jobs#Newstodon#NewstodonFriday#FollowFriday

An other excellent one from @pluralistic about #AI #workplace #capitalism

https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/112848218708725838

Well worth the read

'The point of corporate art is to dress the artificial person of the corporation in the stolen skins of the humans it uses as its substrate...' 'The job of corporate designers is to find the signifiers of authenticity and dress up the corporate entity's robotic imperatives in this stolen flesh. Everything about #AI is done in service to this goal'

Beautifully written, insightful stuff from @pluralistic

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/20/ransom-note-force-field/

Along the lines of the great quip from @pluralistic :

"we're nowhere near a place where bots can steal your job, we're certainly at the point where your boss can be suckered into firing you and replacing you with a bot that fails at doing your job"

Some evidence from the field:

"the people who believe #ChatGPT can do such highly nuanced work don’t know what they don’t know; they’re oblivious to the ways in which #AI is bound to fail them."

https://writingcooperative.com/the-ai-revolution-and-the-economy-have-killed-my-highly-skilled-job-4795551399be

As a visual designer I shouldn't be saying it but @pluralistic just reminded me how much I loved MySpace and how my young adult obsessive creative personality with a passion for punk zines and comics was constantly changing and shuffling stuff in my profile. It was so fun to go on my friends profile and see what they did with theirs and exchange tips.

"An artform that can't be transgressive is sterile, stillborn, a dead end."

https://pluralistic.net/2024/07/20/ransom-note-force-field/#antilibraries

#design#IndieWeb#AI

In all the hoopla about #AI you’d sort of think people would be debating strong vs weak AI vs the limits of “thinking” by any kind of machine as it has been debated for centuries. Like the Chinese Room thought experiment. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_room

But I see nothing of that. Why is that? Do we simply now assume these issues have been resolved in favor of unlimited machine intelligence and all the doubters have been convinced?