a complete surrender to this form of reasoning, though tempting, is likely to lead the U.S. to overlook the disproportionate impact of these systems on nations that are too poor to participate in the AI arms race.
bdaiml inev. as colonial expansionist desire
Spectator Mode becomes a way to analyze the game world from the outside in, to instantly uncover the secret paths and tunnels in the ground below, to look at the gameworld from within a block, or from under the bedrock looking up through pools of lava, hidden diamonds, and glowing skeletons.
in what ways do you understand / come to learn a system, a world, an infrastructure? cf. position/where one is situated across an AI tech stack
The poor image is a copy in motion.
the young girl desiring herself desiring;
pornographic media
Data can be valuable. It can also be debris, abundant and unwelcome clutter generated by organic activity. Data is essential for operating a system, but it rarely needs to be the primary focus of the system.
cf capturability, rhetoric of maximum vision in my captcha essay (2)
The digital brain metaphor works pretty well for computers chugging away at pattern recognition tasks using inanimate objects. It's a solitary, individual model, processing a limited world of static information, making predictions, and acting on those predictions based on limited information — a solipsistic machine.
refine this into narrower categories
cf Mario Carpo AI pasta or rice. or was it the neural arch reading from Jimmy?
If everything is up for grabs, everything is transgressive, and nothing matters much at all. The entire landscape of our visual culture can become subject to a detached, aesthetic disinterest. Everything can be reduced to data to be manipulated. Once you believe that, you can easily come to believe wholesale in the ideological project of AI.
The result is often critiqued as soulless. AI-generated text and images suffer from the absence of the weight of the real. The AI slop of AI images and the AI slop of algorithmic decision-making have this in common: they can only point at data. They never base decisions on reality. Nonetheless, the decisions are rolled out into reality as if they did.
They are also restructured references to, primarily, social media content, with the model making aesthetic choices based on what it has learned from the feedback loop of viral posts.
also saturated with logics of advertising — thats where you get the corporate pop
To the AI critic, referentiality is evidence, not an informed nod to a broader cultural context but of the model's theft of intellectual property.
I keep returning to aesthetic detachment to understand the pleasure of manipulating symbols with AI. Art requires playfulness, and playfulness involves a lack of investment in the thing played with. We would not play absent-mindedly with a sacred object if we understood it was sacred. But history is filled with the sacred artifacts of a culture played with by those indifferent or hostile to that culture. Playing with those images inspires resistance.
This rise of the technocrats will have ramifications on tech regulations, sure. But it is also a form of politics that treats government as a social media interface, designed to amplify outrage, bully those in disagreement and make constructive dialogue impossible. It’s a momusocracy: government by force of the troll.
This is a fusion of social media, the ideology of AI, and power, all leveraged to aim the swarm gaze toward harassing civil servants Musk disagrees with.
cf. swarm gaze and spectacle
Large language models lack what linguistics calls a referent.
instead replaced by fetishized notion of "essence of the thing" (referent) as nth dimensional data analytics?
Slop is a problem that can persist through strategic negligence: there is no need to prioritize a problem if that problem is helpful to the people tasked with repair.
purpose of a system is what it does David Graeber on bureaucracy?
Though almost literally "autocratic," this AI-generated worldview is neither left nor right-wing, but a fusion of cyberlibertarianism and technocratic neoliberalism. Today it is a project with enough entry points to form its own agenda, priorities, myths and abstractions, rituals of inclusion and exclusion, and crucially, an invitation to enjoy its fantasy.
I don't see AI slop as disinformation, but about the reality that information of any kind, in enough quantities, becomes noise. It is, I argue, a symptom of information exhaustion, and an increased human dependency on algorithmic filters to sort the world on our behalf.
AI Slop as negative image?
posting jarring AI content to lure engagement
specific to locale / culture, too — Chinese AI using MLP + tough lessons about the cruelty of society reflects "warning culture" (no idea how else to describe) very much in vogue across XHS, for instance
The central question of the Anthropocene, why did behaviorally modern humans gain the unprecedented capacity to change an entire planet, cannot be answered by genetic changes in human behavior. To explain why human societies scaled up to become a global force capable of changing the Earth and why there are so many different forms of human societies and ecologies shaped by them, explanations must be sought beyond the theories of biology, chemistry or physics. Here I introduce a new evolutionary theory, sociocultural niche construction, aimed at explaining the origins of human capacity to transform the Earth 3. As will be seen, this theory also explains why behaviorally modern human societies came to transform ecology in so many different ways over the past 50,000 years as they expanded across the Earth.
//Summary* - The central question of the Anthropocene: - why did behaviorally modern humans gain the unprecedented capacity to change an entire planet? - cannot be answered by genetic changes in human behavior. - To explain why human societies scaled up to become a global force capable of changing the Earth and why there are so many different forms of human societies and ecologies shaped by them, - explanations must be sought beyond the theories of - biology, - chemistry or - physics. - Here I introduce a new evolutionary theory, sociocultural niche construction, - aimed at explaining the origins of human capacity to transform the Earth . - As will be seen, this theory also explains why - behaviorally modern human societies came to - transform ecology in so many different ways over the past 50,000 years as they expanded across the Earth. //
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sociocultural factors
Faktor sosiokultur (budaya) adalah yang utama.
Pemahaman usang tentang publikasi ilmiah lebih banyak yang diturunkan dari senior ke para yuniornya. Para yunior ini dalam waktu 10 tahun akan menjadi senior juga yang kemudian akan menurunkan paham usang yang sama.
2.1.2 Sociocultural theories of SLA In contrast to interactionist research, Block (2003) proposed the “social turn” taken by the field of SLA, and variations of socially based theories and approaches have flourished. For example, socio-cognitive paradigms (Kern & Warschauer, 2000), which view language as social and place emphasis on the role of cultural context and discourse, are often used in the research on telecollaboration. Many studies have been influenced by sociocultural theory (Belz, 2002; Thorne, 2003; Ware, 2005). In the Vygotskian perspective, language is viewed as a mediating tool for learning, and the entire language learning process must by necessity be a dialogic process (see, e.g., Basharina, 2007; Blin, 2012, who rely on Activity Theory and Cultural Historical Activity Theory, respectively, for their analyses of telecollaboration). Other studies make visible the development of linguistic, pragmatic, and intercultural competence in both intra-class telecollaboration (e.g., Abrams, 2008) and inter-class interactions (e.g., Belz & Thorne, 2006; Jin & Erben, 2007). Chun (2011) reports on advanced German learners in the United States engaging online with advanced English learners in Germany, as they used different types of speech acts to indicate their pragmatic ability and to show their developing ICC. Specifically, some learners realized that they could exhibit curiosity and interest (a component of ICC) by engaging in multi-turn statements and did not need to use questions to convey their intent.
Sociocultural Approaches to SLA and Technology (Steven Thorne): Sociocultural approaches (SCT) to second language acquisition draw from a tradition of human development emphasizing the culturally organized and goal-directed nature of human behavior and the importance of external social practices in the formation of individual cognition. This paper describes the principle constructs of the theory, including mediation, internalization, and the zone of proximal development, and will describe technology-related research in these areas. Vygotskian SCT shares foundational constructs with distributed and situated cognition, usage-based models of language acquisition, language socialization, and ecological approaches to development, all of which have contributed to new applications of SCT in the areas of language research and pedagogical innovation. A discussion of methodological challenges and current practices will conclude the presentation.