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Gonna start a conference called #NormIPS that’s just presentations of middlebrow ML topics. “how to structure Python packages 2022”, “how many k-folds is too many”, “how to make the browser pop-up come up when the notebook is done running”, “putting features in Postgres”, etc.
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Not it effing can't. This headline is breathtakingly irresponsible.
h/t @hypervisible
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A wild, appalling story: A group of hackers fabricated evidence on the PCs of Indian human rights activists who were then arrested for terrorism and jailed. Now researchers have found a direct link between those hackers and the police making the arrests. wired.com/story/modified-ele…
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From many of us in the privacy community:
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I once had a corp speaking oppy. The organizer asked my fee & I told her. She paused. Your fee should be at least $10k. Another speaker is getting $$$. Now what’s your fee? I raised my fee. That is how we help other women level up. Don’t contribute to exploitation culture.
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Great* to hear that companies are reacting to new privacy laws the same way my dog reacts to me telling her to drop something: try to get it all faster before I stop her.
*It is not great and STOP IT.
wsj.com/articles/big-tech-pr…
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Such great articles in the new issue of the AALL Spectrum! Particularly enthralled by Cas Laskowski’s article with Erik Adams and Martin Korn on DIY analytics.
aallspectrum.aallnet.org/htm…
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My latest @IEEESpectrum column. It will also appear in the October print issue. "Ask not what your AI system can do for you, but instead what it has tricked you into doing for it." spectrum.ieee.org/rodney-bro…
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So Clearview AI not only scrapes sites for images to create its legally questionable database and contributes to mass surveillance with biased/inaccurate tech, it also harasses groups pointing out its problems and trying to hold it to account.
politico.com/news/2021/09/24…
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Queensland police to trial AI tool designed to predict and prevent domestic violence incidents. This raises a number of concerns 1/
theguardian.com/australia-ne… h/t @benhutchinson
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Have you registered for the next IFTF Foresight Talk on October 14? Save the date and join our conversation with award-winning futurist and designer @BishtPupul on what an equitable #futures practice looks like through a non-Western lens.
Register: iftf.zoom.us/webinar/registe…
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#LawLibrarians, do you love instruction & have ideas you want to share w/ our community?
Propose a session for the 2022 Teaching the Conference, to be held (unless we end up pivoting to virtual) in Portland, OR. Proposals are due Oct. 15th!
Details ⬇️ @RIPS_SIS @AALL_ALLSIS
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you probably don't need
machine learning
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。 ☆。 ☆ 。 ☆。 。 – at Seattle, WA
Firebrand Librarian retweeted
In which "democratize" means "sell access to AI APIs" -- aka the standard AI biz model 🙄
AI booster rhetoric continues to assume an audience that knows nothing about these technologies or the political economy behind them.
ALT Screenshot of a Fast company headline reading, "Ex-Googlers raise $40 million to democratize natural-language AI. Their startup, called Cohere, is backed by AI luminaries Geoffrey Hinton and Fei-Fei Li."
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Interesting, US judge decides an AI system cannot be qualified as an ‘inventor’ (previously an Australian court decided that it can), demonstrating law is not math nor metaphysical or universal. Also demonstrating the performative effect of law; law is a human made construct 1/
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Image recognition with an AI that
1) will only choose from the options I give it, and
2) assumes one option is the correct answer
aiweirdness.com/clip-backpro…
ALT Classic “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” captioned image of a pipe. AI's captions: 1 giraffe 79%, 10 giraffes 11%, 2 giraffes 10%
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Why are we yet to enforce notice of use for AI systems? We should legally require criminal defendants subject to a risk assessment to be notified of its use in their case, require each job applicant to be informed when their application is being processed by an algorithm, etc.