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Journal Article
Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... to be stronger and more limber. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Kyle Booten 2024 AI large language models writing support co-creativity proletarianization This word worker is at wit's end. The number on their email program's desktop icon, the one that refers to the quantity...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... occasions for writing that involve challenging the status quo, and support controversial hypotheses that demand cutting-edge analysis and reading against the grain.” Early evidence suggests that chatbots can be useful for generating code, though to what degree, given high error rates, remains subject...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
..., producing texts not only without writers, but also without writing (in Jacques Derrida's sense). The Phaedrus analogy thus risks justifying the swift adoption of a commercial tool that is poorly understood, demonstrably flawed, and reliant on laborious human interventions. [email protected]...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... who support democracy, and that they occupy only two pages of the book. McQuillan dismisses “all attempts at legal regulation” because “a legal veneer already covers up for the discriminatory realities on the ground” (39). “The ‘rights’ that the law instantiates,” he writes, “are procedural, like...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... and goes on to elaborate rights for educators and students, including institutional support for critical AI literacy professional development; educator collaboration on AI policy and purchase and implementation of generative systems; protection of student privacy and creative control; and consultation...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... storytelling, and raise questions for further thought on just how individuals can make their resistance to anti-Black racism contagious. Ultimately, most of Benjamin's arguments are not fundamentally new contributions to writing on anti-Black racism in the United States. Those familiar with the debate may...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... of the linguistic sign—they do not require the external support of either experimental science or experiential learning, only the connections of signs to other signs. In place of a theory about the relationship between individual signs and things in the world, some variants of this idea promote high-level...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... and the historical processes through which some signs become socially dominant. Material-technological realizations like writing, printing, or datafying authorize certain signs, adding to and sometimes reifying their social authority. Since language is thus deeply embedded in the creation of social reality...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... alignment In a surprising early moment in their long technical essay “Training Language Models to Follow Instructions with Human Feedback,” a team of OpenAI researchers (Ouyang et al. 2022 ) says the quiet part out loud. Large language models (LLMs), they write, “often express unintended behaviors...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... the time of this writing, I encountered a room of students who seemed less than enthusiastic about practicing markup and textual analyses for historical texts. In fact, their shifting and grumbling gave the classroom a decidedly sour air; the students seemed like they were on the verge of revolt...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... in downloading the entirety of the New York real estate market from Trulia, and then we combined it in a single site to create a holistic experience of housing-as-commodity ( fig. 3 ). Using GoFundMe, I downloaded and sorted two hundred thousand supportive comments from medical fundraiser pages to archive...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
... suggests that the reified data worlds now celebrated as “AI” are dysfunctional, antidemocratic, and unscientific. As Chun ( 2021 : 243) writes, “Machine learning programs are not only trained on selected, discriminatory, and ‘dirty’ data; they are also verified as true only if they reproduce these data...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
... reform. This article explores the merits of reconstructing copyright as a permitted privilege (rather than property right). It also highlights the extent to which, for such reform to bear fruit and contribute to a socially sustainable data ecosystem, it needs to be supported by bottom-up participatory...
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Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
..., as mainstream institutions are shifted, they can either reallocate more resources toward the support of other ways of doing things or, at the very least, stop the active and ongoing destruction of alternatives. SM: Thank you for that response. You also mentioned this idea of the Zapatista movement...
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Critical AI (2024) 2 (1)
Published: 01 April 2024
.... The technical debt of generative AI, particularly the hidden social debts that the public incurs from these systems, are central concerns for critical AI research. Although technical debt and moral hazards are inherent in the entangled financial and technical systems supporting generative AI, we can expose...
Journal Article
Critical AI (2023) 1 (1-2)
Published: 01 October 2023
..., engineering, and mathematics) disciplines. On the topic of AI, in particular, “no public discussion,” he writes, obeys a rule of “rough epistemic equality between technological and social knowledge.” Paradoxically, this occurs even as so-called generative AI claims to reproduce skills and capacities central...
