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Per Axbom
AI won't steal your job.
A person using AI to fake your skills will.
Then the AI will cause them to make a devastating mistake.
And they won't know how fix it.
That's when you get your job back.
Remember to request a higher salary.
Per Axbom
The Deutsche Telekom video reminding parents not to share photos of their child on social media is powerful. With all the research I’ve done into deepfakes over the past months it feels overwhelmingly important to boost awareness of online misuse and abuse of online content…

This goes for everything you’re sharing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4WZ_k0vUDM
The Deutsche Telekom video reminding parents not to share photos of their child on social media is powerful. With all the research I’ve done into deepfakes over the past months it feels overwhelmingly important to boost awareness of online misuse and abuse of online content…
Per Axbom
A common argument I come across when talking about ethics in AI is that it's just a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or for evil. One familiar declaration is this one: "It's really no different from a hammer". I was compelled to make a poster to address these claims. Steal it, share it, print it and use it where you see fit.

https://axbom.com/hammer-ai/

#AiEthics #DigitalEthics
A common argument I come across when talking about ethics in AI is that it's just a tool, and like any tool it can be used for good or for evil. One familiar declaration is this one: "It's really no different from a hammer". I was compelled to make a poster to address these claims. Steal it, share it, print it and use it where you see fit.
Poster: If a hammer was like AI. 

Illustration of a hammer (a line drawing) and the quote "It's just a tool".  Various topics surround the hammer and have lines drawn to the hammer, as if explaining what it is made of. 

Obscured data theft.
It copies the design of most constructions in the western, industrialised world without consent and strives to mimic the most average one of those.  

Bias & injustice.
By design, the hammer will most often just hit the thumb of Black, Brown and underserved people. 

Carbon cost.
The energy use is about 100 times greater than achieving a similar result with other tools. 

Monoculture and power concentration.
The hammer is made by a small, western and wealthy subset of humanity – creating costly barriers to entry.

Invisible decision-making.
Computations will “estimate” your aim, tend to miss the nail and push for a different design. Often unnoticeably.  

Accountability projection.
If the hammer breaks and hurts someone, the manufacturer will claim the hammer has “a mind of its own” and they can’t help you. 

Jerry-building (Misinformation).
Optimised for building elaborate structures that don’t hold up to scrutiny.  

Data/privacy breaches.
May reveal blueprints from other people using a hammer from the same manufacturer, or other personal data that happened to be part of its development. 

Moderator trauma.
Low-wage moderators work around the clock watching filth and violence to ensure the hammer can’t be used to build brothels or torture chambers. Unless someone hacks it of course.  

The footer reads: "You can’t own it, but you can subscribe. Perpetually." 

CC BY-SA Per Axbom. version 2, June 2023
Per Axbom
Förra veckan läste jag en text av barnrättskämpen Marie Stenman om hur det vore om ens arbetsvecka var som barnens skolvecka. Den berörde mig. Djupt.

Igår satt jag och ritade bilder till texten och nu finns denna webbsida:

https://skolvecka.xbm.se/
Per Axbom
I don't think everyone is aware of just how far the TikTok filters have come when it comes to changing people's appearance in real-time, with no latency and no visual artifacts.

I've compiled two videos showcasing the new beauty filter and the teen filter, if you're curious:

https://axbom.com/tiktok/

#DigitalEthics
I don't think everyone is aware of just how far the TikTok filters have come when it comes to changing people's appearance in real-time, with no latency and no visual artifacts.

I've compiled two videos showcasing the new beauty filter and the teen filter, if you're curious:
Per Axbom
More and more coming across "podcasts" that can only be listened to on a specific platform, not in my podcatcher (any app for listening to podcasts via RSS feeds).

If a podcast doesn't disclose its RSS feed, is it really a podcast, or just an audio show that happens to be published on a specific platform?

In my mind podcasting is about the listener experience and mode of consumption as much as the production experience. If I can't listen to it like I do 99% of all podcasts, then for all intents and purposes it is not a podcast.

I know most people don't think about RSS feeds at all when listening but I had to mention it here as it's the mode of distribution that makes everything I just mentioned possible, with regards to freedom of listening where I want. Not where someone else wants.

#podcast #podcasting
More and more coming across "podcasts" that can only be listened to on a specific platform, not in my podcatcher (any app for listening to podcasts via RSS feeds).

If a podcast doesn't disclose its RSS feed, is it really a podcast, or just an audio show that happens to be published on a specific platform?
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