@jackbandy.com
Educator / author / researcher Computer Science faculty at University of Illinois Chicago (UIC) PhD in Computer Science & Communication Studies Interested in tech ethics, HCI, STS, data science, algorithm auditing, social media, ecology, other stuff
The Therac-25 was linked to three deaths and is a relatively famous cautionary tale in the computer ethics world.
The “Deaths linked to chatbots” Wikipedia article is already up to sixteen entries.
A survey that says "Do you like this personality?" with a thumbs up or thumbs down as options.
Logged into ShatGPT for the first time in a while and it literally gave me this survey AFTER A SINGLE PROMPT
Well this is fascinating: “switching [the algorithm] off did not reverse users' perspectives on policy priorities or current political issues.”
Obi Wan Kenobi saying “oh I don’t think so”
“You’ve run out of free articles”
Also shoutout to @aurman21.bsky.social et al. for publishing data from their excellent review, which made it easy to add 100+ human-labeled audits to the database
Got around to updating this list of algorithm audits!
Still need to do some more manual review of studies, but there is now a web interface so you can, for example, see all audits of TikTok, or OpenAI, or shuffle to see some random audits 😃
Check it out!
comp-journalism.github.io/list-of-algo...
It’s difficult to describe how much delight I get from opening this tin and finding actual butter cookies
Real journalism is alive
This is what we call gastrodiplomacy, and the world could use a lot more of it.
Hand-drawn clouds own a blue sky, with plants on the ground. Overlayed text says "you can detect ai easily if you have love in your heart." The dot on each "i" is a heart, except in "ai," where the dot is a broken heart. Image via sweetfellasofficial on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/p/DPjcBpLAj74/
This theory grows stronger each and every semester
Happy piping plover day to all who celebrate!
Have we safely archived Andor?
ICE is using Clearview AI, the controversial facial recognition tool that Illinois law enforcement is barred from using.
There’s apparently few guardrails.
A DHS face recognition policy was wiped from the internet in February. Other pages were archived or disappeared
tinyurl.com/yc64wcvh
Looking forward to today's class
We’re hiring for two machine learning roles. A chance to do cutting edge things with ML to make this place a lot more personalized.
jobs.gem.com/bluesky/am9i...
Altman in 2024: "We have no idea how we may one day generate revenue. We have made a soft promise to investors that once we've built this sort of generally intelligent system, basically we will ask it to figure out a way to generate an investment return for you."
Pickin fonts on a Tuesday
And they're hiring! Great opportunity for anyone who's interested in becoming an AI Alignment Alignment Alignment Researcher.
CTA is hosting town halls on next year's potential service cuts (up to 40%) - come show support!
* Tue, Sept. 16 at Imani Village, 901 E. 95th St.
* Thu, Sept. 18 at Truman College, 1145 W. Wilson Ave.
* Thu, Sept. 25 at Malcolm X College, 1900 W. Jackson Blvd.
(scheduled for 5:30 p.m. to 7 p.m)
First they came for infinity
And I did not speak out…
Sounds like GPT-5 is a dud.
If you want a tool that will meaningfully improve your life, I recommend a squeegee.
Ours will intermittently do the “fun only audio playing error” 🫠
The speech-to-text also sometimes transcribes whatever we said like 20 seconds ago, which is simultaneously excruciating and entertaining
It's an honor to be the first account to use the word cheesehopper
Reminder: you can't spell automaton without TOMATO
The model card has three sentences about training data, so no "major shift" there.
one of the single best deals in streaming. i've been paying for PBS Passport for years. it rules
The post itself is comical but I do give Zuckerberg credit for throwing this html directly onto meta dot com
