 I was invited to give a talk on #solarpunk and climate protests at the University of Warsaw next Saturday (11th of Jan). I wrote a summary of my talk and linked to the page containing (among other things) a lot of my essays on why using AI for climate communication is counterproductive. The same page also has a lot of intentionally-created Creative Commons illustrations to use. Yet, the students organizing the talk decided to AI-generate a banner for my talk. Eh xD 13 comments
 @alxd Exclude weather. Climate scientists use AI for better research models. I assume you mean this LLM-crap for everyone? 😉 @NatureMC LLM and GenAI for content. I'm fine with actual scientists using ML responsibly :P  @NatureMC @alxd Or for that matter, AI for plant recognition apps is very useful! You still have to consider the IDs as just a suggestion, but they are often very good at picking up small details in photos. One of my favorite things about iNaturalist is when I take a photo of a plant and it asks me if I’m looking for an insect — which is on the plant and in the photo, but which I didn’t even notice.  @alxd stuff like that's kind of why I stopped bothering to look for solar punk groups and conventions. Far too many are organized by people obsessed with the greenwashing aesthetic without considering what they're doing, even if they're well intentioned 🫤 @gaugedaway it won't be, but I can make it into a blogpost - I mostly want to see what the questions will be and write something different than my usual lines. I'm curious to hear if you let them know about their error and if they are willing to alter the AI banner tbh @maro oh I did let them know, with a lot of force and urgency. Provided them with my prepared illustrations again. Looks like they changed the photo to a less obviously AI generated...? Not sure. Wow that speaks volumes on their organizational skills tbh. Kinda rude to not include your illustrations for YOUR talk. Wishing you the best on dealing with all this and on your upcoming talk. @maro it looks like the organizers changed the photo to another AI-generated one, ignoring my illustrations. I asked if they're fucking serious. They changed it to a stock mashup now, again ignoring my illustrations, and are actively offended by my unbecoming language which has no place at the esteemed University. I asked if they really want to talk about climate grief, anger and protest with someone who uses phrases like "are you fucking serious". |
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I will need to make a new rule, "no AI will be used to promote or organize any of the events I'm taking part in".