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Environmental action must never be allowed to become a figleaf for other forms of oppression. The spectacle of the Israeli Defense Forces creating grated passages through the apartheid wall to permit the passage of small mammals while continuing to degrade, suffocate and cut short Palestinian lives only serves to underscore the racism and inhumanity of such barriers, and the regimes which install them.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
ChatGPT isn't really new but simply an iteration of the class war that's been waged since the start of the industrial revolution.
We Come to Bury ChatGPT, Not to Praise It.
danmcquillan.org
First, I explore how AI systems function as unreliable cognitive artefacts, introducing distortions into distributed processes of remembering, planning, or reasoning. Here, false beliefs, inaccurate memories, and distorted narratives emerge as AI-produced errors become embedded within the distributed cognitive processes themselves. While the error is introduced by the AI, the 'hallucination', on this view, is attributed not to the AI but to the distributed cognitive process that spans the human-AI interaction.
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