Any recent works on the neoliberal takes on wellness/ wellbeing adopted by Silicon Valley and generally the start-up cultures? Interested in the discussion on the optimization of emotions, affect, motivation, and body. 🫶

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Finally on Bluesky too. Let's see how this goes --> bsky.app/profile/anca-t…

'The core of the [AI] ideology is that a suite of technologies, designed by a small technical elite, can and should become autonomous from and eventually replace not just individual humans but much of humanity' wired.com/story/opinion-…

"Using AI to cut cost" will be the new "chasing scale" for news media. Fundamental biz problem facing news is value creation: people aren't willing to pay attention to, let alone pay for, much of what is published. Doing more of the same more cheaply does nothing to solve that.

"I'm very concerned, if I'm honest, because I don't even know if mental health can be solved digitally." #MozillaAwardee Well-being Struggle studied top mental health apps used in the workplace, and while they can be helpful, there are also clear harms: youtube.com/watch?v=iPLBFS…

Any recommendation about research on the "goopification" of health across social media? 😃

Yes.

Begging the AI companies building stuff modeled on "Her" to finish the movie! It does not end well!

This new paper from Tarleton Gillespie is well worth your time reading: "Generative AI and the politics of visibility" doi.org/10.1177/205395…

every PhD student as they create research problems and then get mad at those research problems

Normalize academics talking about their failures. I'll go first: We got rejected at Berghain on Saturday night.

OpenAI legal team every few hours

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The only perspective on AI that matters

People with the soul of a spreadsheet trying to 'solve' writing

The early history of AI LLMs & the microwave oven (80s) are similar. Step 1: This changes everything. Cooking is over. Step 2. Hmm this isn't good for cooking the Thanksgiving turkey. Step 3. This is really useful for some things, but not at all useful for others...

Why does this sound scary as hell?

Once again, an AI system is not "thinking", it's "processing", "running predictions",... just like Google or computers do. Giving the false impression that technology systems are human is just cheap snake oil and marketing to fool you into thinking it's more clever than it is.