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People Aren’t Meant to Talk This Much
Ian Bogost
Predictive AI imposes fundamental limits on predictive systems. Automated systems cannot account for the impact of automated decisions; are trained on preexisting datasets generated by one population but applied to different ones; and, when kept low-cost (human-free), often preserve or intensify discrimination—encouraging people to game the supposedly fair, objective, and accurate system.
AI Scams Are the Point
Edward Ongweso Jr.
Such is the end of the tragedy we are now witness to: Literacy, the most empowering achievement of our civilization, is to be replaced by a vague and ill-defined screen savvy. The paper book, the tool that built modernity, is to be phased out in favor of fractured, unfixed information. All in the name of progress.
People of the Screen
thenewatlantis.com
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