#AI #GenerativeAI #CreativeLabour #CollectiveAction: "Perhaps the most important lesson to be learnt from the digital revolution is how important it continues to be for knowledge producers and the creative industries to stand together and act collaboratively and collectively to establish a fair deal for creativity. Technology companies can wield extraordinary resources of money and power to assure the best outcomes for their business models, and are unlikely to be defeated by a single courageous campaign or campaigner. A united front is needed to ensure protections now and in the future; as the capabilities of artificial intelligence improve, new challenges will emerge, but ensuring copyright works will help put in place foundational protections for writers and help establish some boundaries for big tech companies and the technologies they bring to market.

No technology is inevitable. Artificial intelligence won’t replace humanity, but it is likely to change the nature of some jobs and many business models; these are not godlike entities, but human structures and processes. As such, the immediate challenge is not to be overcome by fear of AI or its mythical capabilities, but to deliver collective action that ensures human intelligence and creative labour is not subsumed by short-term commercial concerns."

https://rachelcoldicutt.medium.com/can-machines-read-ceec966fec42

Good morning #Fediverse :fediverse:! Hope you've all had a great weekend. In this morning's #ConnectionList #Introduction #Connections post, in which I help to more richly connect us together, I'd like you to meet:

@ZoeGlatt is a #PhD candidate and #DigitalEthnography #researcher, and founder of @DigitalEthnographyCollective. They (not assuming pronouns) are submitting in March and are interested in jobs researching #SocialMedia culture, #CreativeLabour and #CreativeIndustries

@ndporter is into #SocialScience, #Data and #DataEquity and works with the #Carpentries. The #Carpentries is a volunteer-driven movement to provide #researchers with foundational computational skills in technologies like #Python 🐍, #Git ⌨️ and #HPC #programming 💻

@pip works in #design for #AI at #CSIRO #ProductManagement

@safiyanoble is the author of "Algorithms of Oppression", which if you haven't read it, should be on your reading list, especially if you're into #AIethics or #FairML. It sits in a similar space to @VirginiaEubanks "Automating Inequality" and shows how algorithms serve to reinforce existing structures of oppression, particularly of POC.

@fionatribe is a #CulturalAnthropology person who is interested in #MaterialCulture, #Architecture and #Anthropology

@metasecsol works as an #InfoSec researcher at the #W3 and as a #Lecturer in #InformationSecurity #DevSecOps