new blog post: 'The political intervention in AI that we need right now...' (opening remarks for the panel on 'Political Interventions in Data and AI' at #DataJustice2023) https://danmcquillan.org/the-political-intervention-in-ai-that-we-need-right-now.html
#AI #resistingAI #datajustice

Printed The Thing from the Future game to play test. Might use it in my fall class to help build imagination about better ways of doing social work.

More immediately, hoping to make a derivation to help organizations do more just data work.

https://situationlab.org/project/the-thing-from-the-future/

#data #DataScience #DataJustice #NonProfit

#ClimateDestruction

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#SurveillanceCapitalism

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#ClimateJustice

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#DataJustice

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Let's have a webinar about how to save the climate! 😃
...via Zoom. 🤮

I think by now, indigenous communities have every right to give a hard side eye to any white dude coming to them offering assistance -- and a shady contract.

That article made me mad.

#Colonizer
#DataJustice #LanguageRights

Generative AI is on our minds. But less so the slowly creeping growth of algorithmic helping; data-driven interventions to change human well-being, and even consciousness. @naomikritzer wrote about it in her most recent Clarkesworld short fiction, "Better Living Through Algorithms".

I use that as a launchpad to open up some ideas about Algorithmic Helping:
https://publicfragments.org/2023/05/05/algorithmic-helping/

#algorithms #ai #socialwork #youthwork #bigdata #DataJustice

How should data be used looking at things like #DataEthics and #DataJustice? Read the latest @ODIHQ report defining responsible #DataStewardship.

👉 http://bit.ly/3o1dDns

#EUOpenData

🐦🔗: https://n.respublicae.eu/EU_opendata/status/1649699615694811136

Article: These 7 States are Sleepwalking Into a Maternal Mortality Crisis - Newsweek

#Abortion #AbortionCare
#ReproHealth #ReproRights #MaternalMortality
#DataJustice

https://www.newsweek.com/seven-states-sleepwalking-maternal-mortality-crisis-medicaid-abortion-1788685

Looking for tips and inspiration in #DataJustice I am familiar with EDGI (Murphy and friends) and just ordered Dencik’s book. I am especially interested in #envrionmentaldatajustice as an emerging field. This is for a future project. HMU with recommendations or if you wanna chat.

"MozFest 2023 will explore the collective power of people: as it shapes #technological #systems, ##policy, and social and political movements – both on and offline. #Unions federated systems, civil rights movements, and open source technology all have a history of activism and defiance fueled by the power of people coming together to co-create solutions and alternative opportunities.

At MozFest, we are investigating current global realities with a sharper focus on how technology is shifting or maintaining power structures, and where the collective power of people is most needed.

Activism in Practice:

This year, MozFest Dialogues & Debates speakers will reflect on the collective power of people from different angles and points of view, with a particular look at the cost of activism in the face of powerful systems. What does it take to shake up the status quo and upend power imbalances, and to what extent do digital spaces and the conception, creation, and deployment of technologies enable these movements or further power asymmetries?

This exciting speaker lineup brings a wealth of experience in art and activism against state power, unionizing against the unfair policies of tech conglomerates, activism that is rooted in scholarship and experience in civil rights movements, builders with focus on ethical technology, policymakers and journalists active in the unfolding work toward big tech regulation.

Beginning on February 6 through March 24, we have 6 Dialogues & Debates speaker events scheduled to raise awareness, inspire, and motivate the MozFest community to what is possible – and what sacrifices might need to be made – in the fight towards global collaborations for justice and liberation."

https://foundation.mozilla.org/en/blog/announcing-activists-mozfest-2023/

#MozFest #Mozilla #CollectivePower #AI #tech #festival #mozillafestival #opensource #speakers #datajustice #justice #civilrights

On the topic of art and artists

These AI tools do not work without the data, and the data is nonconsensually scraped from artists work posted online. So the artists have had their labor stolen to train an AI system which will make the company a lot of money. They get no compensation for that.

Will the AI replace the artists? In some cases yes. For example, some companies may not want to pay an artist to make advertising materials and will use these systems to generate images instead. But overall I do not think it will significantly impact the financial condition of artists, it is just that a company is profiting off of theft. Te company is a data broker, the images they create are secondary to the data they have produced - stolen and coerced.

On the topic of face data

Is your face data a risk to you? Possibly. But the threat is more on the societal level. This data aggregation will result in tools that will be better at creating deep fakes. These are fabricated visuals that make it seem like something happened when it didn't. Just because these images are dressed up in fantasy (from the art that was scraped) the data itself can be used to produce more refined reality fakes. Also, it is possible to fake art materials, for example there could be new forms of revenge porn.

Does this make you bad for buying some pretty faces?

No. It is unusual that a company has managed to get real money from one of their data grifts. But ultimately the responsibility for the potential harms is on these companies and the state which will use these systems for future disinformation and carceral projects.

This has been an opportunity for public education in data and AI literacy.

Another thing that is an unexpected benefit to creating these images and playing with these tools is that it might help the average user get better at detecting deep fakes. There is a particular gestalt to these images that people may be better able to pick up on in the future.

I have worked in 3D art and animation for years and so I am still able to tell that something is off when I see a deep fake. It is possible that the more people who play with AI tools, the more people will be able to notice that something is off and be skeptical of the media they are watching.

*do not be a pedant about the difference between AI and machine learning I am trying to do public outreach here.

#LENSA #MachineLearning #AIArt #FaceData #DataBrokerage #DataJustice #TechJustice #DeepFake

Learning that I should've used hashtags for my #twittermigration #introduction!
#marinescience #aquaticbiology #aquaticecology #geography #marinebiologist #cumulativeeffects #ecology #coralreefs #climatechange #pacificislands #indigenousknowledge #salmon #britishcolumbia #research #justice #interdisciplinary #academia #ECR #UBC #datasovereignty #decolonize #blacklivesmatter #datajustice #degrowth #queer #LGBTQ2S+ #conservation #socialjustice #socialscience #landback #fisheries #waterback

#introduction #reintroduction

Hi,
I'm Paula, an #ace #trans #enby that moved here from @paulakreuzer@mastodon.social and @PaulaForFuture@todon.nl and is active with @ViennaForFuture and @JugendrAT. I'm also the admin of this instance as well as ClimateJustice.global.

I post in #English and #Deutsch and mainly about:

#ClimateJustice
#FridaysForFuture #ClimateCrisis #biodiversity #extinction

#SocialJustice
#BlackLivesMatter #antifa #feminism #QueerRights #GenderEquality #socialism #anarchism

#DataJustice
#SurveillanceCapitalism #FreeSoftware #GAFAM #privacy

#sustainability
#CircularEconomy #veganism #RightToRepair #Fairphone

#personal stuff
#asexuality #love #depression #SocialAnxiety

In the future I'll use @PaulaForFuture@todon.nl for very personal stuff.
I'm also on Pixelfed: @paulakreuzer@pixelfed.de and on writefreely @paulakreuzer@write.privacytools.io.