i've been compiling an are.na board on generative ai articles-on gen ai harms, copyright issues and data rights issues. check it out: are.na/caroline-sinde…

(shout out to Eryk Salvaggio and his new article for Tech Policy Press being the newest link)

As Christiane Paul noted, “people talk about ‘buying’ NFTs rather than acquiring a specific artwork through an NFT. The sales mechanism itself has been commodified: a capitalist milestone.“ Deadline for submission: 3 September 2023

Recirculating this ahead of the Fall semester: it's a critical class on AI images and generative art, using AI images as a lens for visualizing data ethics, representational harms, and popular myths around AI systems. The syllabus and videos are all there, dig in!

Wearing sculptures made from secondhand clothes sourced in Dakar, Jeremy Hutchison performs the morbid logic that hovers around the secondhand clothing trade - presenting it as a kind of zombie imperialism we-make-money-not-art.com/dead-white-men… British Textile Biennial #imperialism

when you buy art
artists make more art

Who else is on Bluesky?!

A new exhibition in Bern, Switzerland looks through the last decade of anti-surveillance fashion concepts as Swiss citizens are now debating increased video surveillance in public
kornhausforum.ch/ausstellung/an…
Vernissage: Do, 14/09/23, 18.30 Uhr

in an act of terminal procrastination I've made a tool to help people explore FFmpeg filters live in browser: ffmpeg.lav.io

Still needs a lot of work -- If anyone is interested doing some bug testing/giving general feedback I'd appreciate it!

We are keeping the online exhibition up through Sunday. Not sure what we’ll do then, but do check it out if you haven’t yet!

'Two core questions drive our work: (1) How is computing tech implicated in the unsustainable resource use that contributes to climate change? and (2) What role should computing tech play in strategies for environmentally just futures?'

What's the latest scoop on acceptable good working pen plotters? Axidraw's got expensive! Lol. Are there other brands or self-built designs working for you? #plottertwitter

Ok let's do this. We need a women/trans fronted music podcast. I'm sick of this white male commentary.

NVIDIA's popular FFHQ face dataset has been quietly enabling high-risk AI technology fr 'real-world human gender classification from oral region' to forehead-based face recognition. No opt-in but claim to offer opt-out. Dataset has already gone rogue. exposing.ai/ffhq/

Community potluck tonight at School of Machines! If you're in Berlin, bring a snack to share and come join, 18h-21h! bit.ly/schoolofma_dir…

Reading comments on this post shows how badly an org like Leaders We Deserve is needed. Donate if you can!

I was just playing around with the Snap AR #AI Machine Learning 'eraser' filter, combining it with regular LensStudio effects

But then I discovered that I accidentally created a 'live #Banksy generator' #Snapchat lens!

Give it a try here: lens.snapchat.com/320f9f1726a049…

Thanks to GPT-4 I finally understood how to do that polygon look but with hidden lines.

If money wasn’t an issue, everyone says they would pursue some kind of art. It is by design that art is undervalued and undercompensated. Because art has the ability to radically change the way we think and feel and act. Art is a threat to the status quo and to the state.

Join us for the 7th Annual Black in AI Workshop co-located at NeurIPS 2023 in New Orleans, LA, USA

Share your research, meet with peers and explore career opportunities!  We welcome a wide variety of topical areas: AI/ML, NLP, LLMs, PGMs, Applications, Demos, Theory + more