Did you know: If you have a pacemaker, you can put it in your Will to have your pacemaker donated to a dog in need after you pass. Pacemakers cannot be donated to another human, but they can be donated to dogs with cardiac issues who would depend on it to stay alive. You can

Organisations that talk about AI in social work aren’t really interested in helping people. It’s a mask for filtering, denying, sifting out, redirecting, referring on and ultimately avoiding the human contact that they are funded to provide.

What's interesting here is that a computer did the fun, creative job of drawing Kermit in various scenarios, and then a human did the boring, labor-intensive job of creating shortcuts with custom thumbnails to open all of their favorite apps. x.com/dlberes/status…

I had a shock in my anthropology class today. A student appeared on Zoom--right at the end of class. I was a bit irritated by the tardiness, when I realized - He was zooming in from a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh. At 4 am. In a shelter of metal sheets, draped in fabric.

This is especially sad when contrasted against headlines like this

MY MOM WAS RIGHT!!????? LMFAOOOOOO

"While gen AI can help with a limited number of tasks, it does not merit a multi-trillion-dollar re-evaluation of the nature of humanity...I believe we have already invested far more in LLMs — in terms of time, money, human effort, energy and breathless anticipation — than we

My friend used an AI photo app to “enhance” a photo we took and yall look what this app did to us?

Someone pinch me 🤩

An extract from the introduction to the Book; Bullshit Jobs by David Graeber!

We're at that stage in a cycle. AI bubble implosion is going to be a one for history books.

New landmark study just dropped dismantling the AI fair use argument🔥 "As a closer look at the technology of generative AI models reveals, the training of such models is not a case of text and data mining. It is a case of copyright infringement." urheber.info/diskurs/ai-tra…

check out this crazy chart from a paper titled "object use in insects"

More and more people—in tech companies, consultancies, regulators, universities, among others—are saying this and proving it to be true: AI does very bad work and creates more labor for humans. crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-…