• Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024

  • Sep 26 2024
  • Length: 1 hr and 1 min
  • Podcast

Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024

  • Summary

  • Did your summer feel like an unending barrage of terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone. It's time for Emily and Alex to clear out the poison, purge some backlog, and take another journey through AI hell -- from surveillance of emotions, to continued hype in education and art.

    Fresh AI Hell:

    Synthetic data for Hollywood test screenings

    NaNoWriMo's AI fail

    • AI is built on exploitation
    • NaNoWriMo sponsored by an AI writing company
    • NaNoWriMo's AI writing sponsor creates bad writing

    AI assistant rickrolls customers

    Programming LLMs with "fiduciary duty"

    Canva increasing prices thank to "AI" features

    Ad spending by AI companies

    Clearview AI hit with largest GDPR fine yet

    'AI detection' in schools harms neurodivergent kids

    CS prof admits unethical ChatGPT use

    College recruiter chatbot can't discuss politics

    "The AI-powered nonprofits reimagining education"

    Teaching AI at art schools

    Professors' 'AI twins' as teaching assistants

    A teacherless AI classroom

    Another 'AI scientist'

    LLMs still biased against African American English

    AI "enhances" photo of Black people into white-appearing

    Eric Schmidt: Go ahead, steal data with ChatGPT

    The environmental cost of Google's "AI Overviews"

    Jeff Bezos' "Grand Challenge" for AI in environment

    What I found in an AI-company's e-waste

    xAI accused of worsening smog with unauthorized gas turbines

    Smile surveillance of workers

    AI for "emotion recognition" of rail passengers

    Chatbot harassment scenario reveals real victim

    AI has hampered productivity

    "AI" in a product description turns off consumers

    Is tripe kosher? It depends on the religion of the cow.


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    Alex

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    Music by Toby Menon.
    Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park.
    Production by Christie Taylor.

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