Sarah Ciston

Palantir Tapped to Compile Americans' Personal Data (headline of NY Times) "In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power."

Working people of this country do not deserve to have their lives put into a digital dragnet to become playthings of the oligarchs.

Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies.

#sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...

Lucky and happy to be a research fellow at CAIS, where I get to look at the disturbing content that trains language models 🚯♻️📥 garbage in 🚯♻️📤 garbage out—and try to map more intersectional directions for machine learning 🏳️‍🌈🔓📖🤖✨

Countdown to Spring 2026 release party begins now 🥰

"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead.
Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts."

Sounds promising.

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Open-source lets us see how predictive systems encode biased, categorical logics. While better than closed systems, open-source alone does not address the issues with the logics themselves #predictivepolicing #criticalai

And how open source is actually applied in practice. Many projects are open source in name only, not vetted through community practices.

Replicative AI is a more apt description of “generative AI.” The language matters.

Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a join...

Stored datasets are "target banks" are people who are killed. And the "AI services" are built on the very same tools we toy with on our phones.

On bad faith arguments and "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now":

What a scintillating conversation—thank you so much for having me! ✨

Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston YouTube video by The Good Robot

NEW EPISODE! We talk to the artist/coder/critical AI scholar Sarah Ciston about their badass chatbot Ladymouth, which responds to trolls and incels on hate forums. Watch/listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts!

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