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As OpenAI and Meta introduce LLM-driven searchbots, I'd like to once again remind people that neither LLMs nor chatbots are good technology for information access. A thread, with links: >>

If you're taking away from last week's searchGPT hype that Google's dominance is on it's way out, AI Now's kb in Tech Policy Press refocuses our attention to the entrenched (and interlinked) structural advantages Google holds across AI and search markets

None of us as read this one yet, but we really enjoyed Chayka's work on ChatGPT4o which was cited in the introduction to the latest issue. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ar…

Are we still pretending this is "news", at this point?

Pleased to be named a ✨Global AI & Market Power Fellow ✨ by the European AI & Society Fund, with $68k to support my work on corporate capture in AI, alongside a fantastically brilliant cohort of other fellows: europeanaifund.org/newspublicatio…

I'll go further and say that Adobe (which I use primarily for marking up pdfs) is in full-on enshittified. It's aggressive preference for its own cloud platform is invasive (I struggle to save work to my hard drive.) And the AI button gets in the way of EVERYTHING. 🦹

great to be part of this important conversation on AI & democracy at the Council of Europe in Strasbourg & tomorrow I'll address the Council on pervasive data harvesting practice & its insidious impact on freedom of speech/movement using IDF's "Lavander" as an extreme example

AI policy is, at present, way too dependent on a cooperating executive branch. Part of this trend was pragmatic (ie agencies hold the tech expertise, legislation is slow & difficult, etc), but it's exhausting to reset & re-strategize at the start of every new administration.

The election debacle cannot be entirely blamed on the failures of our media system, but such long-standing systemic pathologies certainly played a key role. Likewise, rebuilding a vibrant information infrastructure must be a central piece of a broader re-democratization project.

Very happy to share this worthy enterprise from Jane Rosenzweig. Looking forward to reading! A good opportunity to say that in the future #criticalAI will be spending less time here and more on the blue space. Please find us there...

Just learned for the first time about this Princeton response to the infamously crummy MSFT puffpiece, "Sparks of AGI." Haven't read it yet but the title alone is well worth the price of admission. Embers indeed! arxiv.org/abs/2309.13638

Not directly AI-related but relevant to its ecosystem. MSM bake in narratives before adding all the ingredients--like the most populous state in the country! thenation.com/article/politi…

I will humbly note that I argued back in April that the AI promises were — in the truest sense of the term — smoke and mirrors bloodinthemachine.com/p/ai-really-is…

This looks potentially interesting (though none of us has as yet read it).

Essential reading. ⁦Ed Newton-Rex⁩ forcefully & thoughtfully sets out why societies should adopt (or maintain) legislative frameworks that require AI companies to affirmatively obtain consent prior to using creative works to train AI models. 🙏🏼⚖️ ed.newtonrex.com/optouts

Check out Zachary Zimmer's preprint review of Fei-Fei Li's memoir on #CriticalAI's blog! criticalai.org/2024/11/08/sne…

Happy to repost this wonderful grouping. We hope that they-and you-are also reading peer-reviewed interdisciplinary scholarship in #criticalAIstudies. read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/is…

This development illustrates that the ethical issues around the building of AI models designed to produce derivative text &/or images isn’t limited to the issue of consent. We need to ask ourselves broader questions about AI production & the impact on creators & society. Kate Knibbs 🏄🏻‍♀️

The UK's Intellectual Property Office has tweeted about the government's proposals, which would allow AI companies to train on copyrighted work without a licence. They've asked for your views, so I encourage you to reply to their tweet.

Sneak preview of an article about Eryk’s, Caro’s and my work — to be published soon in CriticalAIhttps://read.dukeupress.edu/critical-ai/ criticalai.org/2025/01/17/sne…