I wrote about Sanas, a Silicon Valley startup that brands itself as a “synthesizer" for accented voices — starting with call centers. sfgate.com/news/article/s…

🔥NEW PROJECT!🔥 'The Follower' is software searching how an Instagram photo was taken with the help of AI and open cameras. Project page: driesdepoorter.be/thefollower YouTube video: driesdepoorter.be/thefollowerYT Support my work: driesdepoorter.be/shop 🧵👇

They have some damn nerve don't they?

New newsletter! I am thrilled to announce The Algorithm, a weekly newsletter from MIT Technology Review where I get to demystify the latest AI breakthroughs and cut through the hype. It's going to be so much fun, so sign up! mailchi.mp/technologyrevi…

the machine refused to recognize my humanity until i professed to believe that a sign painted to look like a traffic light is indeed a traffic light.

there needs to be some regulation ( and a mechanism to enforce it) for harmful pseudoscience like this

Jetzt: spannender Vortrag von Esma Gelis und Matteo Vivi (TUM Department of Science, Technology & Society) zur COVID-19 Politik in Deutschland: "Tunnel visions, institutionalised public reason, and the boundaries of solidarity" #insist22

Unis: "Es ist total wichtig, dass du schnell deine Diss fertig bekommst" Unis: "Wenn du die 150€ für eine Konferenz zurück haben willst, wird dich das 8 Stunden Arbeit, dein erstgeborenes Kind und die Hälfte deiner Nerven kosten" Unis: "This is fine" #IchBinHanna

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As much as I like counter-surveillance activism, this particular line of research—from faces to web traces—is dangerous in many aspects, suggesting that individuals have agency to resist identification and that it's easy to evade recognition algorithms in the real world. 1/

Understanding public attitudes towards data and AI is key to ensuring their use and governance works for people and society. The @CDEIUK tracker offers valuable evidence, complimenting growing research in this field.

Unsere Arbeit bei netzpolitik.org finanziert sich aus Spenden. Damit macht ihr unter anderem diese Recherche möglich, die mir besonders am 💙 liegt. Vielen Dank dafür & für das Vertrauen, dass wir mit eurem Geld sinnvolle Arbeit leisten.

Yes, ChatGPT is amazing and impressive. No, OpenAI has not come close to addressing the problem of bias. Filters appear to be bypassed with simple tricks, and superficially masked. And what is lurking inside is egregious. Abeba Birhane Sam Altman tw racism, sexism.

Today at our Responsible Robotics Winter School @TUM, students used LEGOs to build ideas for interdisciplinary research projects on healthcare robotics. Thanks to Acababble f facilitating the LEGO®Serious Play® workshop & to Marieke Bak, Sophia, Xin & Asma f monitoring groups

Are you interested in Science and Crisis Communication? You should join the brown bag event next week, Jan. 27, from 12:00 to 14:00 @TUMThinkTank where perspectives from the global north and south will be shared.

All #scicomm researchers AND practitioners out there, check out our call for proposals for a Special Issue on connecting scicomm research and practice in Journal of Science Communication (JCOM). We're looking forward to your abstracts! 🤓

Gzip is an existential risk to humanity greater than climate change.

state-of-the-art AI, regressing human advancement, one tool at a time