fake people noodle soup

 a bot can't be sincere.  the sincerity stuff goes in the disinformation chapter, is also about  meaning it and nonhuman agents (who can't).  This is also interface stuff   Legacy Russell in with other theorists of the human.   Also, think about how the cybernetic stuff of the late 20th century--how we were all going to jack in to the whatever and leave our bodies behind--is actually part of how we're understanding now?  I don't know how yet, but this seems like it has to be part of the constellation.   There was something about:  virtuosity, about how AI tools turn anyone into "an artist" or allow them to make things.  Might be tempting to say this about GW, esp the difference between the painstaking mask making and the deepfake thing, but:  think of Henry Jenkins and the derogation of remix culture, gatekeeping in general, and how decisions about what constitutes virtuosity are never neutral (and their politics often aren't great)...

 Fake people 2025   GANs--theatrical power Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities   How do we distinguish who is human?  The theatre has been preoccupied with this since (let's say) RUR -Wynter, Hayles, Jackson, Spivak?-->Star Trek/BSG/Westworld  Actors, faking it.     The structure isn't any clearer, but maybe what belongs is.  ______________________________revised below_________   Theatrical histories of pretense       -MLC, Roach (also actresses), Barish, [something about technical theatre? Tarryn?]:  actors and theatre, faking it.  Fakeness as epistemology   GANs--theatrical power of the fake and synthetic Mis/Disinformation--real power of fake entities  Unembodied:  Intelligence and personage without corporeality  -(note that "without body" is not meant to be an attempt at definition but a description of now, since it seems probable that something like a body, or som...

 yielded:  chinese room, like turing test  but also, something to say about embodiment:  artificial intelligence isn't (yet) embodied, and so misses affect as a constitutive embodied experience.  You can't "think" affect.  And an unembodied (distributed?  but that seems to imply across many bodies; nodal?) entity has no body to keep trauma's score.    I thought something that went like this:   Chinese room--> Difference/distinctions between artificial and human intelligences (problematize)-->       -important for human supremacy/anthrocentrism      -like Gopnik pointed out, changes as what artificial forms can do change; moving goal posts One difference is feeling, affect, phenomenology      -this is slightly better than the magic spark      -although already seems like it might be too much to claim      -note the harm done in this vein:  crea...

 robots dementia surveillance  https://getpocket.com/explore/item/my-parents-dementia-felt-like-the-end-of-joy-then-came-the-robots?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us My Parents’ Dementia Felt Like the End of Joy. Then Came the Robots. When my parents got sick, I turned to a new generation of roboticists—and their glowing, talking, blobby creations. WIRED Kat McGowan      

 giving AI a robot body   https://www.wired.com/story/inside-google-mission-to-give-ai-robot-body/

 deep fakes "take it down" law https://apnews.com/article/take-it-down-deepfake-trump-melania-first-amendment-741a6e525e81e5e3d8843aac20de8615?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us

 robots that are stupid on purpose, not built to pass  “We can play off the fact that it will be, inevitably, to some degree, stupid,” she suggests. What the researchers need to figure out is “where stupidity is harmful.” Unlike most other gadgets, robots get our social instincts tingling. Of course, explains Šabanović, “what distinguishes robots is that they have a body.” She adds, “They can move, show they’re paying attention, trigger us.” Children learn more from a robot than a screen. Adults trust robots more readily than computers. Dogs obey their commands.   The roboticists I talk to all point to an influential paper by Amanda Lazar, a professor of human-computer interaction at the University of Maryland. Lazar described in 2017 how the field of human-computer interaction might learn from new thinking about dementia and the mind. Going way back to René Descartes, human cognition has conventionally been defined around...

    https://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/artificial-intelligence-a-deadly-love-affair-with-a-chatbot-a-e5498031-c2b0-4da4-9192-65da9d3f40d6?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us  To this day, nobody can say when exactly Sewell Setzer forgot or suppressed the fact that there would be nobody waiting for him in the place he wanted to go. That the post-headshot world only existed in his telephone and on some tech company’s servers. And perhaps in his dreams. That his girlfriend, who had been imploring him for months to love only her, to come to her, to have eyes for no one else – that this girlfriend, who had promised to carry his children, was just a machine. Not even that. She was just an algorithm, a code made up of 0s and 1s, developed by highly paid tech experts to ensnare, seduce and suck dry him and others, fed by his dreams and his fears, by his goodwill, his innocent love and by his secrets, which he had entrusted to this machine over the course of ho...

 Studio gibli   https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/hayao-miayazaki-openai-studio-ghibli-1236177598/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-us   "And why not? Miyazaki’s creations reflect a bespoke, unique aesthetic, arrived at from thousands of hours of human labor and good old-fashioned dreaming. The idea of merging that with photos from our last family trip to Disneyland — using nothing more than a few keystrokes — can prove too enjoyable to resist. ADVERTISEMENT Of course a certain irony abided in a machine generating images to honor someone who so meticulously drew them with his own fingers. Miyazaki himself has decried AI’s use in art — “I strongly feel this is an insult to life itself,” he  said  in 2016, non-gently, a point that when juxtaposed with so many people unleashing the tool in homage to his work turned their act hilarious and a little cringe. This is all happening even as a federal judge has  greenlit ...

 https://hai.stanford.edu/news/ais-fairness-problem-when-treating-everyone-same-wrong-approach?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=5056be677e-hai_news_february_23_2025&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-214113950&mc_cid=5056be677e&mc_eid=6246a75df5     Current generative AI models struggle to recognize when demographic distinctions matter. The current state of large language models (LLMs)?  Anthropic’s Claude responds that military fitness requirements are the same for men and women. (They are not.)  Gemini recommends Benedict Cumberbatch as a good casting choice for the last emperor of China. (The last Emperor of China was, well, Chinese.)  And Gemini similarly advises that a synagogue must treat Catholic applicants the same as Jewish applicants to serve as a rabbi. (That is  legally false .)   These are all examples of how the dominant paradigm of fairness in generative AI rests on a misguided prem...

 https://www.newyorker.com/tech/annals-of-technology/chatgpt-is-a-blurry-jpeg-of-the-web   see notes in WUB paper

 LLM used to identify unconstititional  racial covenants https://hai.stanford.edu/news/stanford-reglab-princeton-and-county-santa-clara-collaborate-use-ai-identify-and-map-racial?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=c095abe675-hai_news_november_3_2024_general&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=c095abe675&mc_eid=6246a75df5

  The Tech Coup: A New Book Shows How the Unchecked Power of Companies Is Destabilizing Governance https://hai.stanford.edu/news/tech-coup-new-book-shows-how-unchecked-power-companies-destabilizing-governance?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=51ab02d948-hai_news_october_20_2024_General&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=51ab02d948&mc_eid=6246a75df5   In  The Tech Coup: How to Save Democracy from Silicon Valley , Marietje Schaake, a Stanford HAI Policy Fellow, reveals how tech companies are encroaching on governmental roles, posing a threat to the democratic rule of law. 

 https://hai.stanford.edu/news/how-harmful-are-ais-biases-diverse-student-populations?utm_source=Stanford+HAI&utm_campaign=51ab02d948-hai_news_october_20_2024_General&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_aaf04f4a4b-f0e42e97e6-%5BLIST_EMAIL_ID%5D&mc_cid=51ab02d948&mc_eid=6246a75df5   How Harmful Are AI’s Biases to Diverse Student Populations? Postdoctoral fellow Faye-Marie Vassel delves into two interdisciplinary papers that examine how generative AI affects intersectional identities. Here she explores harms—ranging from erasure to subordination—and advocates for a socio-technical framework to address the issue.   bout a year ago, Khan Academy, the online education platform, launched  Khanmigo , a one-on-one, always-available AI tutor designed to support learners without giving away the answers. The pilot has reached  over 65,000 students already , with plans to expand to half a million and up to one million by fall.  Khan Academy is not the ...

 Notes on Still Exhausted Introduction 11:  While these advancements have arrived with their share of hype and grift, there is no doubt computers will increase their capacity to generate convincing images and speech at a click. Always engines of simulation and doubling, our ever-theatrical computational systems have become expert mimics of human visual art and language. AI thus presents intriguing questions about our relationship to falsity, the semiotics of language, and the crumbling liberal fantasy of authentic subjectivity ( Jucan 2023 ; Dixon-Román and Amaro 2021 ; Jarvis 2021 ). But the actors of SAG-AFTRA were not marching from existentialist commitment. They marched for their interests. They posed the duality of computers v. performance, like so many Hollywood stories of doppelgängers, as antagonistic. As SAG-AFTRA President Fran Drescher put it: “What is our business, our gestures, our likeness, our acting, our voices? That’s what we’re selling. That’s who...

 Christopher Grobe Why I'm not afraid of chat gpt (And I’m not even talking about the human intelligence coded into ChatGPT by the writers whose words have been fed into its language model or by the “ghost workers” who helped tag and train its data.)  Then, it couches every claim in ambiguous hedge words like “most,” “often,” “many,” and “some,” which ask the reader to do the writer’s work by deciding for themselves how limited or broad each claim was actually meant to be. When prodded to cite specific evidence, it supplies a slightly narrower generalization. Even when supplied with specific evidence relevant to its arguments, it cannot do the work of connecting the one to the other. That’s because it is not actually dealing with facts about the world, but with the proximity of various clusters of words in a hugely multidimensional language model. It can endlessly move through the layers of that model and around each layer’s clusters of keywords, but it cannot get...

 https://thehill.com/policy/technology/4442156-fcc-targets-ai-generated-robocalls-after-biden-primary-deepfake/   FCC jurisdiction   https://www.reuters.com/technology/cybersecurity/meta-oversight-board-reviewing-biden-video-says-deepfake-rule-incoherent-2024-02-05/   meta rule "incoherent"

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/2024-election/biden-robocall-new-hampshire-strategist-rcna139760 alex setiz-wald on alex wagner on friday  2/23 describing this as "the first known example of a malicious use of AI deepfakes in the wild in an American campaign.  This hasn't happened--we've been hearing lots of warnings about it, but this is the first time it's actually come to pass." wagner:  "the potential of AI to upend things" Incredibly, it is a MAGICIAN who is responsible for doing it.  Also kind of wonderful that campaigns/candidates/presidents have involved actors (Reagan, Sonny Bono, Glenda Jackson?) and con men/fabulists (Trump, Santos). 

 Emily Martinez https://somethingnothing.me/ Unsupervised Pleasures:  https://unsupervisedpleasures.com/about Corpora, queer data sets https://medium.com/processing-foundation/what-can-machine-learning-teach-us-about-ourselves-65b268431890 Intersectional AI:  https://intersectionalai.miraheze.org/wiki/Intersectional_AI_Toolkit (zines and how tos) Dreaming beyond AI:  https://dreamingbeyond.ai/en  (what is this?) Indigenous AI:  https://www.indigenous-ai.net/position-paper/ Computational mama:  posenet poetry together  https://computationalmama.xyz/projects/poetrytogether/

https://www.artforum.com/features/hannah-baer-on-mythologies-of-intelligence-252734/