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nic221.bsky.social
Off the Rails: Reflections on a Semester with “AI Tracks” and Rethinking Student AI Agency https://emilypittsdonahoe.substack.com/p/off-the-rails-reflections-on-a-semester (interesting instructor reflections on giving students choice of 2 tracks, AI free or AI friendly) #AI #education #writing
July 12, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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danielle-rivera.bsky.social
UC-Berkeley has an open-rank faculty position in our incredible Climate Equity and Environmental Justice (CEEJ) research cluster. It is an extraordinary interdisciplinary group working across multiple colleges and departments at the university! More information here: aprecruit.berkeley.edu/JPF04842
Assistant/Associate/Full Professor - Climate Equity and Environmental Justice - Rausser College of Natural Resources
University of California, Berkeley is hiring. Apply now!
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July 12, 2025 at 12:02 AM
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nsousanis.bsky.social
If useful to anyone for tomorrow or whenever, all printable off of my site spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/
A small comics panel, with a drawing of a King ace of spades playing card drawn in the style of traditional playing cards, but with the features of King George III, and the upper portion resembles Trump. Excerpts from the Declaration of Independence are written small around the card. Each of these phrases refers specifically to the injustices imposed by the King (and connect to this current moment – references to Tariffs, to transporting us overseas…) At top in Large letters – “DISCARD.” At Bottom, #NoKings and my info: Nick Sousanis @nsousanis.bsky.social www.spinweaveandcut.com single image closeup on the face of lady justice, in the background, all dark, human figures, faceless prisoners, seated, packed tightly together, bodies merging into a sea of heads, with each figure’s head another’s back. At top in large letters right above her head, text reads "Due process is not optional" A smaller caption box centered on her face where her blindfold would be reads: "No matter who you are." We’ve discarded a king before, we must do it again. #NoKings (excerpted and remixed from my comic on due process - with alt-text, notes, process, printable versions on my site - appreciate sharing https://spinweaveandcut.com/due-process/) A small comics panel - foreground lady justice holding the scales in one a prison cell in the other a court house. In the background, all dark, human figures, faceless prisoners, seated, packed tightly together, bodies merging into a sea of heads, with each figure’s head another’s back. Caption at top “What Process is Due?” Text caption: “Succinctly, due process means no one shall be deprived of “life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Next Caption: “this is not optional." This next caption is now on the scales of justice - right about the prison cell side: “Before bringing down the power of the state to remove a person’s rights,” Caption, above the other side of the scale, wherein a courthouse is held: “we raise up the protection of the law, this extends to everyone -“ caption now right over where Lady Justice’s blindfold is, obscuring it entirely: “No matter who you are.” Caption below: “whatever we think of you, whatever you might have done,” Caption: “it’s’ imperative everyone be treated fairly,” final caption lower right: “to ensure freedome for all.” and here we see a tiny image of the statue of liberty’s torch and hand. Nick Sousanis 5/25 @nsousanis.bsky.social www.spinweaveandcut.com Alt-text: A comics page in black and white, addressing the concept that a country is an idea - and ours is built on among other things the concept of due process (which goes back to the Magna Carta). Images and text all snake across the page across a backdrop of humans imprisoned, and packed together, becoming a black mass in the lower right. I’ve written full description of the imagery with all the text on my site at the link (can’t put enough characters here…) Alt-text: A comics page in black and white, addressing the concept that a country is an idea - and ours is built on among other things the concept of due process (which goes back to the Magna Carta). Images and text all snake across the page across a backdrop of humans imprisoned, and packed together, becoming a black mass in the lower right. I’ve written full description of the imagery with all the text on my site at the link (can’t put enough characters here…)
June 13, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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nic221.bsky.social
Persuasive AI: Who Holds the Prompt? https://engineeringprompts.substack.com/p/persuasive-ai-who-holds-the-prompt #AI #persuasion (interesting idea)
The same dynamic will likely play out in the broader information sphere - more and more, systems will have Al filters, where an Al aligned with your interests works on your behalf. It's very likely that we will pay for this kind of Al, which is important, because that means whoever produces this Al assistant has a very strong economic incentive to make sure the Al is aligned with us. Who holds the prompt? As we've seen, the Al itself can be prompted to act for or against our interest - despite the best efforts of Al model producers to avoid misaligned actions (which reveals the key problem with alignment in general: aligned with whose values?). Thus, the question is not, can Al be used for us or against us? The answer is clearly both. The question is rather, who is prompting the Al, and are their incentives aligned with us? We have been here before - put simply, if you are not paying for a service, you are likely the product. An Al service that is free is unlikely to have your best int
May 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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afinetheorem.bsky.social
The new OpenAI model announced today is quite wild. It is essentially Google's Deep Research idea with multistep reasoning, web search, *and* the o3 model underneath (as far as I know). It sometimes takes a half hour to answer. Let me show you an example. 1/x
February 3, 2025 at 2:21 AM
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eryk.bsky.social
We are seeing a generation of AI systems built without their designers critically grappling with their role in the broader world. Could we do it some other way?
Are Other AIs Possible?
I believe AI is a political tool. I believe this because I believe that AI, and much other technology, is something of an ideological frame: a set of social fictions that is deployed to justify certai...
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January 26, 2025 at 1:06 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
Some notes on Barthes’ “The Death of the Author,” the false authority of LLMs, and why you can’t argue that the author is dead if you’re using AI to reanimate the corpse. mail.cyberneticforests.com/data-prior-t...
Data Prior to Language
If the author is dead, why isn't the LLM?
mail.cyberneticforests.com
January 12, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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quasimondo.bsky.social
From my personal recollection I would say the history was:
2014 Image Classifiers (AlexNet, GoogLeNet)
2015 DeepDream / RNN (text generation)
2016 PPGN / StyleTransfer
2017 VAE / pix2pix
2018 pix2pixHD / CycleGAN
2019 StyleGAN / BigGAN
2020 StyleGAN2 / CLIP / VQGAN
2021 StableDiffusion
November 28, 2024 at 8:45 AM
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merrittk.com
(enlarging bottoms mostly)
March 12, 2024 at 11:57 PM
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eryk.bsky.social
The Algorithmic Resistance Research Group (ARRG!) is putting out a zine about making art that pushes back against algorithms and AI. We would love to have your contribution! More info at: www.cyberneticforests.com/zine
Models for Making Distance, deadline April 15 2024. Illustration of three floppy disks being bent, touched, and magnetized.
February 7, 2024 at 4:00 AM