Eugenia Stamboliev
@eugeniaunivie.bsky.social
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Postdoc fellow Uni Vienna & visiting prof BTU / philosophy of media & technology / works on AI, ethics, democracy, trust and gender / board member Women in AI / eugeniastamboliev.com
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Am radikalsten wäre es tagsüber, nicht erst ab 17 wenn’s die Chefs net mehr juckt, aber keiner die Kinder keiner abholen kann. Naja. Gute Idee dennoch …
‘Even if we could make AI systems…transparent, capable of explaining their reasoning in lucid prose, this does not cure the underlying democratic deficit; a decision explained is still a decision imposed. Without a clear path for recourse, human agency dissolves into statistical abstraction.’💥
“The path to tyranny is often paved by individuals who ‘obey in advance,’ anticipating what authoritarian leaders want & preemptively meeting them halfway to avoid conflict. In the age of AI, this phenomenon appears poised to occur at an algorithmic scale.”

—Andrew Sorota

#AI #democracy
Rescuing Democracy From The Quiet Rule Of AI | NOEMA
Our gravest AI risk isn’t runaway superintelligence but our cultural readiness to surrender collective judgment to algorithmic systems.
www.noemamag.com
To my surprise, but for a while now, the @financialtimes.com has increasingly become an important since critical AI info source, but it’s also an expensive one. anyone having tips or infos on whether some (or your?) Unis provide access to it? If so, I can better pitch it to @univie.ac.at
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This is both fascinating & frightening. There is a demand for images that show and confirm what people already know and believe to be true, and AI slop meets that demand—with visual content that emblematically visualizes what the headlines report. One could call it synthetic hypervisualization
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That TikTok account has a few fake videos of reporters getting detained. They make these videos because it’s a big story in the news. Real reporters are getting arrested. And so people are making AI videos to get engagement on TikTok.
‚Some researchers see this behaviour as a serious threat, whereas others call it hype. So should these episodes really cause alarm, or is it foolish to treat LLMs as malevolent masterminds?‘ I am torn here 🫤 a/ legally, murder plotting requires intent&accountability
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
AI models that lie, cheat and plot murder: how dangerous are LLMs really?
Tests of large language models reveal that they can behave in deceptive and potentially harmful ways. What does this mean for the future?
www.nature.com
Well I don’t want to, but more importantly, I also cannot access my files. A shame …
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everyone who believes that AI will fix democracy: Read this piece by @himself.bsky.social‬ ‪@hahrie.bsky.social‬

knightcolumbia.org/content/ai-a...
AI and Democratic Publics
knightcolumbia.org
Der Song zum Kopf 🫠 solidarity💪🏼
Can‘t wait for ‚…however, he could’ve reached his career goals faster and according to his strategic outlook. Unfortunately, he showed little management talent throughout this employment at xyz…‘ ‚In conclusion, … he was a nice chap who was paramount to his family tree‘ … the future looks bleak 😒
I wrote something on #syntheticdiscrimination; a form that is rendering existing women invisible online due to the hypervisible, synthetic female imagery made by GenAI and taking over.

Publication👇🏻 (for now, only in German, @unesco.org)
www.unesco.at/fileadmin/us...
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Great piece on #slopaganda: «Whether it's a self-assured small social media account … or, indeed, a department of the US government, the viewing public isn't the only target of this new form of propaganda. In this manner, the creator also experiences the same reassurance from interactions online.»
This week I wrote about the unstoppable tide of "Slopaganda." Traditional propaganda was not meant to convince, but to assure the public that prior beliefs were popular and accepted. What happens when you allow anyone to create propaganda at the stroke of a keyboard? A supercharged feedback loop.
Journalism in the Age of Slopaganda
How does one stem the tide of disinformation?
readthecatch.ca
#uefa2025 #frauenem #orf nach nur 5 Minuten kommentiert der Sprecher, dass #jennihermoso leider nicht dabei ist ‚die die damals in den Kuss Skandal verwickelt war‘. Nope, nix da. Sie war nicht so verwickelt, sondern wurde von LB belästigt. Solange wir so sprechen, ist alles nur kleine Lappalie.
‘Power always needs abstraction. To be controlled, reality’s unwieldy complexity needs to be slotted in models, …that allow for standardization and manipulation. Nature and social life are bureaucratically indigestible in their raw form and must be pre-processed to be seen and shaped.’
As we transition from industrial to digital modernity, business tycoons no longer view humans as cogs in machines. Now, as platforms become all-powerful, a new, stealthier form of domination is emerging, @pettertornberg.com & @uitermark.bsky.social argue.
The Ascendance Of Algorithmic Tyranny | NOEMA
As today’s platforms become all-powerful, the metaphors we use to describe our digitally infused world exemplify a new, stealthier form of domination that is emerging.
www.noemamag.com
Despite darkness, anger or sadness, may there be a rainbow ahead.
I am guiding/giving/performing a workshop on #AIethics (my twist), #art (my non-interpretation) and #AIslob (you know, Jesus as shrimp etc). This Saturday afternoon, 14.6, in #Vienna, join if you want 👇🏻🌈

(No prompting, no genius narratives, maybe crayons 🖍️)

www.semmelweisklinik.at/collective-r...
‚It would be a disaster for our students to have no idea how to effectively use one of the most powerful tools that humanity has ever created,” Brown said. “AI is such a powerful tool for self-education…‘ To me the disaster is utter worldly incompetence and climate collapse, but that’s just me 🤨
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Don’t want to dish on my former homies (yay Devon peeps!), but let’s face is, there ain’t no Turing test for this genius communication loop…