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critical algorithm/data studies, Univ.Ass. @ Cross-Disciplinary Strategies/Univ.Applied Arts; PhD candidate
@univienna
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Fabian Fischer
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On that note, there's topically related deadline coming up:
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Yana Boeva
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Are you exploring hidden practices, encounters, and actors who make automation and AI work? Please consider submitting a short position paper to our hybrid #CHI2023 workshop. #CFP & details: bit.ly/3WyPEaW
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Fabian Fischer
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Making ChatGPT "safe" for its users (customers) creates incredibly unsafe conditions for others. Framing this as "making ChatGPT less toxic" is insulting IMHO
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Billy Perrigo
@billyperrigo
In a statement, OpenAI said the work was part of its mission "to build safe and useful AI systems that limit bias and harmful content." It said its outsourcing partner was responsible for pay and mental healthcare provision. (7/8)
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Fabian Fischer
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As many scholars have been highlighting over the last years 'AI' needs a humongous amount of human labor to 'work'. #ChatGPT apparently organised this work in a very exploitative, neo-colonial way by outsourcing the most toxic parts to the global south and underpaid workers.
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Billy Perrigo
@billyperrigo
🚨Exclusive: OpenAI used outsourced Kenyan workers earning less than $2 per hour to make ChatGPT less toxic, my investigation found (Thread) time.com/6247678/openai
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Jana Wiese
@jasowies_o
Vergangene Woche lief mein vorletzter Beitrag für
@oe1
. Ich will dort nicht länger arbeiten. Nicht, weil mir die Arbeit dort nicht (mehr) gefallen würde oder wegen der Kolleg_innen, sondern allein wegen der äußerst prekären Bedingungen und der allgemeinen Perspektivlosigkeit: 🧵
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Access Now
@accessnow
NEW: The EU #AIAct must protect everyone, regardless of migration status. We + over 190 partners call on EU institutions to #ProtectNotSurveil migrants, people seeking asylum, and those with an irregular migration status from discriminatory AI: 🧵
accessnow.org
EU AI Act must protect all people, regardless of migration status - Access Now
Access Now and partners call on the EU to ensure the AI Act protects all people, regardless of their migration status.
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Anna Durnova
@evrop_anka
In einem offenen Brief erklären wir, warum auch die Professor:innen Kurie einen Bedarf an der Reform sieht - bis heute 70 Unterzeichner:innen von Profs der ⁦⁦
@univienna
⁩ Die verhinderte wissenschaftliche Exzellenz ⁦⁦⁦
@Ulrike_Felt
derstandard.at
Arbeitsplatz Universität: Die verhinderte wissenschaftliche Exzellenz
Durch die Kettenvertragsregelung verliert die Universität Wien Know-how. Auch wir Professorinnen und Professoren sagen: Es braucht eine Reform!
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Josefa M. Stiegler
@JosefaStiegler
Der Mittelbau der
@univienna
plant eine Vollversammlung, weil die Arbeitsbedingungen dort unterirdisch sind. Statt Verständnis zu zeigen oder – god forbid – gar Solidarität, sagt die Uni das Audimax als Veranstaltungsort ab, weil der Saal ja besetzt werden könnte #IchbinHanna
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Mario Keller
@mkeller3000
Die @univie hat uns kurzfristig das Audimax für unsere Vollversammlung heute abgesagt. Neuer Ort: HS1, OMP. Begründung: Angst vor weiteren Besetzungen. So viel Angst vor ein paar Besetzern, so wenig Verständnis für die prekäre Lage des Mittelbaus!
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Lee Vinsel @leevinsel@h-net.social
@STS_News
HOLY SMOKES This will forever be one thing I got wrong about our bubble. I just assumed Alexa was profitable because of all the attention it was receiving and all my friends and family members who owned Alexa devices. If Alexa is THIS unprofitable, imagine what else is.
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Grady Booch
@Grady_Booch
Ooof. Ten. Billion. Dollars. arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/1
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@ffshr
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algosoc
@ALGOSOC_
1/2 The @ALGOSOC_ program is looking for 13 PhDs and 4 postdoctoral researchers to do ground-breaking research into the relationship between technology and society, investigating how we can ensure that ADS respect and realise public values and human rights.
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Jack Stilgoe
@Jackstilgoe
So a new thing happened. A paper we submitted got rejected by a journal after automated plagiarism detection. It turned out two students in India had plagiarised our preprint and then published online reports. So we've been accused of copying them. Fun.
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Brent Toderian
@BrentToderian
Never forget, a 13-year study of a dozen cities found that PROTECTED bike-lanes led to a drastic decline in fatalities for ALL ROAD USERS. And painted bike-lanes? No safety improvement at all. As for sharrows, it’s safer to NOT have them. V/
@StreetsblogUSA
usa.streetsblog.org
Separated Bike Lanes Means Safer Streets, Study Says
Cities that build protected lanes for cyclists end up with safer roads for people on bikes and people in cars and on foot, a new study of 12 large metropolises revealed Wednesday.
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Fabian Fischer
@ffshr
Bis 28. November Mitglied werden (crowdfunding), und hoffentlich gibt es dann ein neues Medium mit spannenden, anderen Perspektiven und guter Recherche: tageins.at/mitglied
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tag eins
@tageins_at
🥁Vorhang auf für unsere ersten Kolumnistinnen: 💥 @saskiahoedl war zuletzt als Ressortleiterin bei der Berliner taz und hat ein Kinderbuch über Rassismus veröffentlicht (“Steck mal in meiner Haut”). Für tag eins wird sie einmal im Monat die österreichische Politik kommentieren.
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Fabian Fischer
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I guess the mission is going great?
Quote from Galactica's mission page: "Researchers are buried under a mass of papers, increasingly unable to distinguish between the meaningful and the inconsequential. GALACTICA aims to solve this problem."
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Michael Black
@Michael_J_Black
I asked #Galactica about some things I know about and I'm troubled. In all cases, it was wrong or biased but sounded right and authoritative. I think it's dangerous. Here are a few of my experiments and my analysis of my concerns. (1/9)
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I like this part particularly well:
Screenshot of a paragraph with the following content: "Please use the sharing tools found via the share button at the top or side of articles. Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy. Email licensing@ft.com to buy additional rights. Subscribers may share up to 10 or 20 articles per month using the gift article service. More information can be found at https://www.ft.com/tour. https://www.ft.com/content/b6fdff1c-94a1-41d6-ae52-5dcbffa5dcea The other lesson is not to get too carried away with self-regarding language about the “war for talent”, which was ubiquitous in the tech sector until recently. There are talented people in all walks of life. What matters for pay is supply and demand. Low-paid workers in the US have been getting big pay rises in nominal terms this year. No one is calling that a “war for talent”; they are calling it a “labour shortage”."
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Valerio De Stefano
@valeriodeste
This is a great column by @sarahoconnor_ on the @FT about lay-offs in tech. It also includes some quotes of mine as to how they represent a rude awakening about a business & HR model that was long considered winning and ever beneficial for workers THREAD ft.com/content/b6fdff
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Fabian Fischer
@ffshr
If this was some kind of scripted reality show, I would be amused, but watching all this happen is just crazy.
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Zoë Schiffer
@ZoeSchiffer
NEW: Elon Musk sent Twitter staff an email with the subject line “a fork in the road.” He said: “to build a breakthrough Twitter 2.0 and succeed in an increasingly competitive world, we will need to be extremely hardcore. This will mens working long hours at high intensity.” 1/
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WeDoSTS_Vienna
@ViennaWedosts
Dear
@PsychedelicSTS
,
@STS_News
, STS Harvard students, and STS community, we want to express our solidarity with those who have spoken about their experiences at the Harvard STS program. We feel shocked, disappointed, angry and upset when reading your texts. 🧵
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Claudia Schwarz-Plaschg
@PsychedelicSTS
Finally public! My story of how I was sexually harassed, marginalized, silenced, excluded, and gaslighted at/by the @HarvardSTS Program. Join the #MeTooSTS and #WeDoSTS movement to fight together against abuses of power in STS/academia! 🤬😱😲😭😳🤮🤢✊medium.com/@claudia_gertr
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Fabian Fischer
@ffshr
After twitter, now Meta: Massive layoffs. Things are starting to look grim for Big Tech employees
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Bloomberg
@business
BREAKING: Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg says the company will cut 13% of jobs affecting more than 11,000 employees, the first major round of layoffs in the social media giant’s history trib.al/jKmHiyw
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Fabian Fischer
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Thinking a bit more about this, I guess the STS move would be: Whether that kind of love letter would be deemed a failure or deception is highly dependent on social/collective negotiations about originality, deception, failure, imitation, etc. (Which is what is already going on.)
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Fabian Fischer
@ffshr
... by copying previous instances of the behaviors that instantiate them: a love letter that is merely a copy of a previous love letter would be a failure or a deception." (p. 111)
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