Filipa Calado, PhD

Digital Scholarship Specialist, Princeton University.

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

The prompts 🤣 😭 And we think students are the problem.

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

One example of using a business monopoly’s infrastructure against them:
When you need to buy something, go to yr Amazon app and put it in the shopping cart. Then when you go to the drug, book, hardware etc stores, just pull up the app and get the items, at often cheaper prices.

[Valentin Hofmann @vjhofmann]

How does model size affect dialect prejudice? We find that increasing scale does make models better at understanding African American English and at avoiding prejudice against overt mentions of African Americans, but perniciously it makes them *more* covertly prejudiced.

[Valentin Hofmann @vjhofmann]

💥 New paper 💥

We discover a form of covert racism in LLMs that is triggered by dialect features alone, with massive harms for affected groups.

For example, GPT-4 is more likely to suggest that defendants be sentenced to death when they speak African American English.

🧵

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

On the rise of anti-trans ideologies across the USA: "The real question is which sex can be affirmed — and why.... It is the purpose of sex change, and not the change itself, which determines its acceptability." Excellent article by @andrealongchu

https://t.co/tSW5OnKOQT

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Dominion Energy, which supplies power to N Virginia (highest concentration of datacenters in US), is now saying no new datacenters b/c the grid cannot support their power needs.

IMO it's irresponsible to have these hyperscaler aspirant convos w/o frontloading climate impact.

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

Saw the original piece about Gender-Affirming Surgery in the NYT Opinion this weekend, and was so happy to come across this correction/clarification from Trans Rights researcher and legislator, @ErinInTheMorn: https://t.co/Ofuheqf7N1

[@timnitGebru (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) @timnitGebru]

I can't emphasize enough my disdain for the whole AGI scam. Used to centralize & consolidate power by the already rich & powerful while selling a techno-utopia they promise will come any day now, if we just let them continue to kill the environment, exploit labor & steal data 👍

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

1. Happening live: On MLK Day, Idaho's legislature is not only active... it's hearing a book ban.

Idaho H384 would target libraries and teachers for any books that contain "sexual conduct,' which could ban dozens of literary classics as well as LGBTQ+ books.

Lets watch live.

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

I have amazing news to report to everyone!

Murfreesboro just repealed the "community decency" ordinance that for a short time banned "acts of homosexuality" and was being used to ban library books.

I broke this story last month.

We made a difference!

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

@KahdeidraMartin 💪 amazing work !!

[Code as a Liberal Art @codeatlang]

Check out our fall 2023 courses! We've got 6 classes on offer: our core seminar with @Caladoscope, two sections of Code Toolkit (Python & Javascript), Live Coding with @melodyloveless, Digital Network Infrastructure & The Algorithmic Sublime with @fgshprd
https://t.co/RcyBSEBT5r

[@emilymbender.bsky.social @emilymbender]

To all those folks asking why the "AI safety" and "AI ethics" crowd can't find common ground --- it's simple: The "AI safety" angle, which takes "AI" as something that is to be "raised" to be "aligned" with actual people is anathema to ethical development of the technology.
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[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

If only a "pause" would divert resources to the humanists and scholars trained to deconstruct bias in language. To those who have spent their careers analyzing word forms.

Read more of my thoughts on #AIhype
https://t.co/d7oLRgadHL

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

Read my take on machine sentience based on sequence to sequence prediction: "Do you believe me? Do you trust me? Do you like me?" https://t.co/SQUH93QdZm

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

@KahdeidraMartin @Vassar Amazing news! So happy for you 🙌

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

Most recently, TNS has attempted to hire temporary graders and threatened to cut PTF pay (as of last night). They’re trying everything they can to avoid paying us fairly. But 95% of us rejected their last inadequate offer. We stand together, and will continue to strike! /5

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

To the president of @TheNewSchool : if your institution cannot afford to pay fair wages to its workers, the fault is not of the workers. Stop blaming them and restructure your resources. It’s your job. /1

[Filipa Calado, PhD @Caladoscope]

Over the past 10 years, @TheNewSchool has hiked up tuition and replaced full time faculty lines with (cheaper) part time faculty. Where’s the money going? Read Econ prof Sanjay Reddy’s “What The New School Can Afford” /4 https://t.co/UC7cX42Vab