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Campolo and Schwerzmann ask, “How might we resist being ruled by examples when each subject is interpellated by machine learning’s type of authority in a slightly different way, as no individual produces exactly the same data and, thus, is classified following the same norm?” The wager of the companies implementing their generative models is that we can’t resist, that we will instead submit and adapt to these models’ shortcomings because it will seem futile to argue against “data” and the norms extracted from it.
The Blackbird Must Be Flying
Substack
In the millennia since we first spoke to and of the world we have lost much of this sense of connection to it: technological progress is all too often accompanied by spiritual attenuation.
Ways of Being
James Bridle
Thanks to data mining and machine learning, technologists can use computers to operate people.
Survival of the Richest
Douglas Rushkoff
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