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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall
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Do you feel like this summer has brought just unending terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone! The time has come, yet again, for Emily and Alex to clear out the poison, purge some bac...
on Sep 26
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Precarious Working Conditions in Content Moderation and their Consequences for Workers
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This podcast (GER with EN subtitles) discusses the struggles of content moderators at Telus International in Essen, Germany, highlighting poor pay, mentally taxing tasks, and lack of support. The w...
on Sep 23
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Closure for Families of the Missing
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on Sep 14
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Dr. Clara Berridge joins Alex and Emily to talk about the many 'uses' for generative AI in elder care -- from "companionship," to "coaching" like medication reminders and other encouragements towar...
on Sep 14
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What training do data workers need? What do they get instead? Data workers and community researchers Fasica Gebrekidan and Yasser Alrayes explore this question with Adrienne Williams and Milagros M...
on Sep 14
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What grievances are specific to data work in Latin America? Data workers and community researchers Oskarina Fuentes, Alex Chávez, and Axel Uriel González Pérez explore this question with Camilla Sa...
on Sep 14
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 39 - Newsrooms Pivot to Bullshit (Feat. Sam Cole)
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The Washington Post is going all in on AI -- surely this won't be a repeat of any past, disastrous newsroom pivots! 404 Media journalist Samantha Cole joins to talk journalism, LLMs, and why synthe...
on Aug 29
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 38 - Deflating Zoom's 'Digital Twin'
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Could this meeting have been an e-mail that you didn't even have to read? Emily and Alex are tearing into the lofty ambitions of Zoom CEO Eric Yuan, who claims the future is a LLM-powered 'digital ...
on Aug 15
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Mystery AI Hype Theater, Episode 37 - Chatbots Aren't Nurses (feat. Michelle Mahon)
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We regret to report that companies are still trying to make generative AI that can 'transform' healthcare -- but without investing in the wellbeing of healthcare workers or other aspects of actual ...
on Aug 2
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on Jul 28
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Data Workers' Inquiry Speaker Series, Panel 3: What does precarity look like for data workers?
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What does it mean to experience precarity as a data worker? Data workers and community researchers Yasser Alrayes, Roukaya al-Hammada, Wilington Shitawa and Adio Dinika explore this question with m...
on Jul 25
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When is a research paper not a research paper? When a big tech company uses a preprint server as a means to dodge peer review -- in this case, of their wild speculations on the 'dangerous capabilit...
on Jul 20
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Data Workers' Inquiry Launch, How Do Data Workers Organize?
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Welcome to the launch of the Data Workers' Inquiry, a research project that sheds light on the experiences and challenges faced by the data workers who power the world of artificial intelligence (A...
on Jul 10
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This podcast highlights the precarious conditions of content moderators, as well as the structural constraints faced by migrant workers in Germany. It is also a call to action in the fight for last...
on Jul 6
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Abstract The irruption of generative AI places us in a scenario that pretends to be an open space of multiple opportunities, but this panorama of apparent enthusiasm is only a mirage that blurs the...
on Jul 6
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Annotate to Educate: The Dual Life of a Syrian Student & Data Annotator
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This short film highlights the inadequate training of data workers in Syria and their resulting personal struggles. It advocates for fair, structured, and honest training processes to empower and p...
on Jul 6
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Data Workers Organizing - The African Content Moderators Union
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The formation of the African Content Moderators Union in 2023 marked a key step for workers advocating for better conditions. This documentary explores the issues faced by data workers at Sama in N...
on Jul 6
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Precarious Working Conditions in Content Moderation and their Consequences for Workers
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This podcast (GER with EN subtitles) discusses the struggles of content moderators at Telus International in Essen, Germany, highlighting poor pay, mentally taxing tasks, and lack of support. The w...
on Jul 6
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In the Colony of Blooded Eyes: A Trilogy on Working Conditions in Germany as Content Moderator
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This video conversation offers us an intimate insight into the psychological impacts of content moderation and the role of friendship and artistic expression in healing. By Sakine Mohamadi Bozorg R...
on Jul 6
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Life of a Latin American Data Worker
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Irregular working hours, uncertainty, meager wages, and unpaid time are daily realities for platform data workers. This animation video highlights the profession's structural issues, which are exac...
on Jul 6
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Introducing the Data Workers' Inquiry
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Coming soon: the Data Workers Inquiry, a research project that aims to shed light on the experiences and challenges faced by data workers who power the world of artificial intelligence (AI). Learn ...
on Jul 6
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 35 - AI Overviews and Google's AdTech Empire
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You've already heard about the rock-prescribing, glue pizza-suggesting hazards of Google's AI overviews. But the problems with the internet's most-used search engine go way back. UCLA scholar and "...
on Jul 3
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Notes on Scaling Social Media Data Collection
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on Jul 1
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 34 - Senate Dot Roadmap Dot Final Dot No Really Dot Docx
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The politicians are at it again: Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer's series of industry-centric forums last year have birthed a "roadmap" for future legislation. Emily and Alex take a deep dive ...
on Jun 26
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 33 - Much Ado About 'AI' 'Deception'
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Will the LLMs somehow become so advanced that they learn to lie to us in order to achieve their own ends? It's the stuff of science fiction, and in science fiction these claims should remain. Emily...
on Jun 6
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 32 - A Flood of AI Hell
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AI Hell froze over earlier this year, and now a flood of meltwater threatens to drown Alex and Emily. Armed with raincoats and a hastily-written sea shanty*, they tour the various realms -- from sp...
on May 23
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PeerTube, an ActivityPub-federated video streaming platform using P2P directly in your web browser.
on May 22
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The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
on May 17
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The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
on May 17
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The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
on May 11
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 31 - Science Is a Human Endeavor
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Will AI someday do all our scientific research for us? Not likely. Drs. Molly Crockett and Lisa Messeri join for a takedown of the hype of \
on May 7
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The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
on May 5
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 30 - Marc's Miserable Manifesto
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Dr. Timnit Gebru guest-hosts with Alex in a deep dive into Marc Andreessen's 2023 manifesto, which argues, loftily, in favor of maximizing the use of 'AI' in all possible spheres of life. Timnit Ge...
on Apr 19
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 29 - How LLMS Are Breaking the News (feat. Karen Hao)
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Award-winning AI journalist Karen Hao joins Alex and Emily to talk about why LLMs can't possibly replace the work of reporters -- and why the hype is damaging to already-struggling and necessary pu...
on Apr 3
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on Mar 18
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 28 - LLMs Are Not Human Subjects
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Alex and Emily put on their social scientist hats and take on the churn of research papers suggesting that LLMs could be used to replace human labor in social science research -- or even human subj...
on Mar 13
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on Mar 2
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Science fiction authors and all-around tech thinkers Annalee Newitz and Charlie Jane Anders join this week to talk about Isaac Asimov's oft-cited and equally often misunderstood laws of robotics, a...
on Mar 2
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on Feb 15
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 25 - An LLM Says LLMs Can Do Your Job
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Is ChatGPT really going to take your job? Emily and Alex unpack two hype-tastic papers that make implausible claims about the number of workforce tasks LLMs might make cheaper, faster or easier. An...
on Feb 1
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New year, same Bullshit Mountain. Alex and Emily are joined by feminist technosolutionism critics Eleanor Drage and Kerry McInerney to tear down the ways AI is proposed as a solution to structural ...
on Jan 23
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 23 - AI Hell Freezes Over
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It's a winter miracle! Thanks to an erratic burst of polar air, AI Hell has frozen over for a single hour. Alex and Emily visit all seven circles in a whirlwind tour of the worst in bite-sized BS. ...
on Jan 20
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The United States Congress spent 2023 busy with hearings to investigate the capabilities, risks and potential uses of large language models and other 'artificial intelligence' systems -- and Senate...
on Jan 3
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Celebrating Our Second Anniversary
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on Dec 30
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The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
on Dec 27
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The Distributed AI Research Institute is a space for independent, community-rooted AI research, free from Big Tech’s pervasive influence.
on Nov 30
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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 21 - The True Meaning of 'Open Source'
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Researchers Sarah West (AI Now Institute) and Andreas Liesenfeld (Radboud University) join Alex and Emily to examine what software companies really mean when they say their work is 'open source,' and call for greater transparency. This episode was recorded on November 20, 2023. Dr. Sarah West is...
on Nov 29
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on Nov 21
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Emily and Alex time travel back to a conference of men who gathered at Dartmouth College in the summer of 1956 to examine problems relating to computation and "thinking machines," an event commonly mythologized as the founding of the field of artificial intelligence. But our crack team of AI...
on Nov 17