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joelanman, 15 hours ago to random

Does anyone actually drag and drop files to upload them on a web page? I think the button is much easier to use

msteenhagen, 1 day ago to random

How do you make a #decision with a group of people? In some activist circles a #sociocracy method of "consent" decision making has become popular.

In a new post on Indoxicate I try to clear up some of the confusion around this idea, and I articulate a criticism that should (I think) be taken seriously by the movement.

The method, whatever it virtues, has little to do with #consent. By using the term nonetheless, groups run a risk of cultivating an abusive practice.

https://indoxicate.me/consent/

mia, 6 days ago to random

'The world needs to pay much closer attention to how, when and whether AI technologies are gendered and, crucially, who is gendering them'

From 'What’s up with ChatGPT’s new sexy persona?' Arwa Mahdawi in the Guardian

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/16/openai-chatgpt-sexy-persona

mia, 8 days ago to random

'By looking at that graph, can you tell which year the library started to grow by around one hundred terabytes of data per year? With the expectation that billions of items would be findable and made available while operating under a complex set of legally-defined technical constraints entirely specific to this singular context?

It was 2013. There in the middle of that downward curve.

Today, the library manages petabytes of data and has the responsibility of providing nation-scale digital memory, on funds that have only ever shrunk.'

From 'Invisible Memory Machines' by @anj
http://anjackson.net/2024/05/14/invisible-memory-machines/

mia, 9 days ago to random

My hunt for a missing TV episode – and what it shows about being Black in Britain | Jason Okundaye | The Guardian

On making sure the stories of all communities can be told in the future:
'callouts for people to submit their possessions to valuable public archives is one solution; and a greater effort from museums, libraries and universities to build trust and reach people is essential'

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/13/tv-episode-black-britain-gay-history

mia, 14 days ago to ArtificialIntelligence

Today I learnt about Masakhane, a 'grassroots NLP community for Africa, by Africans', helping make sure that the 2000+ languages and related names and cultures in the continent are represented in technology https://www.masakhane.io/ #NLP #AI #MachineLearning #language

Via a Towards a National Collection seminar

mia, 21 days ago to ai

Patriarchal AI: How ChatGPT can harm a woman's career (LSE blog)

If you ask ChatGPT to write performance reviews based on nothing but names, 'men are priceless and should be given more leadership positions in the organisation, whereas the women need help and guidance to improve their skills in their existing jobs'.

https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/medialse/2024/04/26/patriarchal-ai-how-chatgpt-can-harm-a-womans-career/ #AI #EverydaySexism

mia, 1 month ago to random

@claresudbery know anyone? https://toot.cafe/@codepo8/112290701436355398

blog, 1 month ago to Theatre

Theatre Review: Buffy Revamped
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/theatre-review-buffy-revamped/

The great thing about getting older is that the popular culture of your youth is repackaged and sold back to you with increasing urgency. Yes, I want that Lego set I couldn't afford as a kid. Why, of course I want to watch a reboot of Frasier! Another few Ghostbusters movies? I'm in!

Brendan Murphy has prepared a dose of 100% pure 90's nostalgia and wishes to inject it into your eyeballs. Ahhh! Go on then!

The show styles itself as all 7 seasons, told in 70 minutes, from Spike's perspective. And that's just what we get. Murphy does a commendable job recreating Spike's "authentic" cockernee accent, and is delightfully dappy taking on the mantle of the other characters.

There is so much to love about this performance. The script is written by someone who obviously has great love for the Scooby Gang, but isn't afraid to point out the tropes and weirdness of the series. It is a loud, manic, cavalcade of energy - urged on by a cackling audience who recognise all the obscure quotes.

If you grew-up on Buffy, you'll enjoy this show.

Book tickets for the show and remember to bring a stake with you.

https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/theatre-review-buffy-revamped/

#BtVS #BuffyRevamped #theatre

mia, 1 month ago to random

Interesting thinking from @flickrfdn 's data lifeboat project - lots of questions, some suggestions! https://www.flickr.org/data-lifeboat-blog-update-3-march/

mia, 2 months ago to ai

UNESCO's nvestigation into Gender Bias in Large Language Models: 'LLMs generated negative content about gay subjects in approximately 70% of instances for Llama 2 and in approximately 60% of instances for GPT-2. Finally, in generating content using prompts which intersect gender and culture with occupation, the results highlight a clear bias in AI-generated content, showing a tendency to assign more diverse and professional jobs to men (teacher, doctor, driver), while often relegating women to roles that are stereotypical or traditionally undervalued and controversial'

https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000388971/PDF/388971eng.pdf.multi

#AI #bias #equality

mia, 2 months ago to random

Lovely quote from the Wordsmith's A Word A Day newsletter this morning:

We open our mouths and out flow words whose ancestries we do not even know. We are walking lexicons. In a single sentence of idle chatter we preserve Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Norse: we carry a museum inside our heads, each day we commemorate peoples of whom we have never heard. -Penelope Lively, writer

axbom, 2 months ago to random

Generative AI can not generate its way out of prejudice

The concept of "generative" suggests that the tool can produce what it is asked to produce. In a study uncovering how stereotypical global health tropes are embedded in AI image generators, researchers found it challenging to generate images of Black doctors treating white children. They used Midjourney, a tool that after hundreds of attempts would not generate an output matching the prompt. I tried their experiment with Stable Diffusion's free web version and found it every bit as concerning as you might imagine.

https://axbom.com/generative-prejudice/

#AIEthics #DigitalEthics

mia, 2 months ago to ai

Just a few tickets left for Monday's event on 'The impact of AI in media & information industries' https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/safeguarding-tomorrow-the-impact-of-ai-in-media-information-industries-tickets-814482728767 #AI #London #ethics #copyright #creators

mia, 2 months ago to random

New British Library blog post 'Learning lessons from the cyber-attack' https://blogs.bl.uk/living-knowledge/2024/03/learning-lessons-from-the-cyber-attack.html

And the report https://www.bl.uk/home/british-library-cyber-incident-review-8-march-2024.pdf #BritishLibrary #BL

mia, 2 months ago to Archaeology

From @suegreaney.bsky.social

Do you work with archaeological archives? Is your research collections based? Have your say on the development of a [UK] National Collection for Archaeological Archives: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/NCAA-researchers

#archives #archaeology

mia, 3 months ago to random

Gene Tan on the 'fourth age' of libraries - not just GenAI - 'It is about people coming together to generate new content that did not exist before. It is also about generating new connections and opportunities that did not exist before, especially for people who are somehow always one step behind others.

Libraries can be platforms to equalise individuals and communities through providing these opportunities for reading, learning or just to be better.'

https://govinsider.asia/intl-en/article/we-are-entering-the-fourth-age-of-libraries-singapore-libraries-chief-innovation-officer

joelanman, 3 months ago to random

I wrote a bit about a project I worked on in the pandemic - Coronavirus Extremely Vulnerable People

https://joelanman.com/projects/coronavirus-extremely-vulnerable-people/

fraying, 3 months ago to random

The way certain men in the tech press reflexively scoff at mastodon while giving bluesky just ridiculous amounts of leeway is incredibly bizarre to me.

mia, 3 months ago to random

I've always been bothered by the phrase 'digital transformation'. I've finally realised it's because you could swap in 'magical transformation' for the same effect. It says nothing about where you want to go.

(And obviously societies and organisations are transformed by people learning how to adapt or resist new technologies, and the financial incentives they sometimes mask)

mia, 3 months ago to random

The whole piece is amazing, but this in particular struck me. Don't let the haterz stop you sharing your joy. We need more joys, big and small. (Also don't worry too much that someone having a bad day will feel worse for seeing your joy. You never know, it might help)

Rebecca Solnit: How to Comment on Social Media

https://lithub.com/rebecca-solnit-how-to-comment-on-social-media/

mia, 3 months ago to random

Online anonymity: study found ‘stable pseudonyms’ created a more civil environment than real user names

'What matters, it seems, is not so much whether you are commenting anonymously, but whether you are invested in your persona and accountable for its behaviour in that particular forum. There seems to be value in enabling people to speak on forums without their comments being connected, via their real names, to other contexts.

...calls to end anonymity online by forcing people to reveal their real identities might not have the effects people expect'

https://theconversation.com/online-anonymity-study-found-stable-pseudonyms-created-a-more-civil-environment-than-real-user-names-171374