#Captchas always amazed me because they appeared without any fanfarres and yet they are an important part of the #web. It feels like they become an entity of their own - like a guardian of a portal or tower. It is an automaton, but I imagined it like a riddler.
#comic #AI #sts #scicomm #criticalai

Watching the Wicked, all I could think was that a lot of "witches" were persecuted because their knowledge or lifestyle challenged the status quo. I once read that knowing too much about herbs was a potential danger for people to be accused of #witchcraft.

#Comic of my own #wicked #witch

My most recent work on AI. Because often we forget that behind the #hype and #cyberutopianism, AI is being generally funded not for #altruism or the good of humanity, but to automate labour and reduce costs, much to the expense of the social.

#comics #sts #art #AI #criticalai #genai #responsibleai

Now the other part is to get funding to go there. Anyway, happy to discuss my idea with anyone. I'm in for #STS #sociotechnical #youth #criticalai #responsibleai discussions. Trying to be smooth with the hashtags, right?

Still in the dire look for job and funding as a #globalsouth #independent #researcher, I come to share some small good news. My proposal "Social Representations and Genai: Representations of Children through Synthetic Imagery" has been accepted for the next International Sociological Association

"Sir, should I feel guilty for using AI?".
My Bsky - what do you think?
This question is extremely important because of (1) the simple and yet daring way it was asked, and (2) who asked: a high school student from Indonesia, but also (3) the spontaneous reflection of #ethics of #AI.

Conversations with a #chatbot 8
Ahh the #promises of #AI. They never fail to amaze us. In 2015, Elon #Musk said that we will have #selfdriving cars in two years. In 2018, tests with these cars resulted in two deaths in the US, and nowadays analysts pushed the prediction to 2035.

My most recent #critical #ai and #sociotechnical #comic #strip. Please bear in mind, I am an AI enthusiast myself and love to jump to try new #technologies. But we can't close our eyes to the unsustainable and oppressive systems that enable #generativeai to function nowadays. More below.

Comics: #conversations with a #chatbot 5
Yes we have something in common with #robots - plenty of microplastics inside us! Researchers from the VU Amsterdam (Leslie et al, 2022) found proof, in a substantial part of the participants (77%) that we have microplastics running in our blood.

I do qualitative research, I have experience with ethnography and also legal research. I work with policy as well. I love science communication. I taught several sessions, from inequality and racism in Brazil to AI and Social Justice.
I'm also an amateur artist, publishing my comic strips on my own

#Comic strips: Conversations with a #chatbot no. 6. Inspired by a future not so far. The #AI will enslave us? More like the #business behind it will accelerate the depletion of our #resources much before it. But the shareholders will be happy.