In this great new article, Os Keyes and Jeanie Austin audit the HRT Transgender Dataset and propose the concept of "mess" to understand the affective and emotional dimensions of auditing algorithmic systems Check it out: buff.ly/3Tgglj8

Truly a thread for our times. A whole class could be designed around it.

The Stable Diffusion Discord has a channel devoted to spectacular failures and it’s full of gems

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HPS and STS folks: apply to present at CSHPS this May in Toronto. Hasok Chang is the keynote! Deadline January 20. yorku.ca/cshps1/meeting…

We must work together to ensure ALL Ontarians have access to accessible, equitable, and PUBLIC health care! Join me in signing this petition to STOP FORD'S PLAN TO PRIVATIZE: jillandrewmpp.ca/stop_privatize… #ONPoli

1998 me, a computer science major who read Barthes and Beaudrillard for fun, would be pretty amazed to find out how it all turned out.

I’m re-reading fucking Benjamin because of an AI project. Walter, not Ruha.

Should I title my grant application What’s the DL on DL?

1/9 Dear John Tory You met Angie Austin in the moss park overdose prevention site tent, 6 years ago. She was the first person you saw inject. She spoke to you about why she injected drugs & you stayed and listened to her. That moment changed your views. She didn't want to die.

So happy to see this much needed resource launch! Thanks to Rohan Khan and @douglasmartin for doing the heavy lifting from Queen's School of Computing.

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LOL sob

Boring take: the main problem with the Chomsky ChatGPT opinion piece is that it’s so boring.

OpenAI may have tested GPT-4 on the training data: we found slam-dunk evidence that it memorizes coding problems that it's seen. Besides, exams don't tell us about real-world utility: It’s not like a lawyer’s job is to answer bar exam questions all day. aisnakeoil.substack.com/p/gpt-4-and-pr…

Retweet this if you think the Ontario government should immediately reverse their cuts to healthcare for uninsured people. #Healthcare4All

Used ChatGPT to write a grad school networking email to rip apart in a writing exercise for my students, and it produced exactly the kind of form letter I get hundreds of. A couple hours later one such letter showed up in my inbox and more than half was word for word identical.

Friends are always asking me "should I be afraid of AI yet?" Here's my answer: ecampusontario.pressbooks.pub/futureofhigher…