Denise Utochkin

Luddite & techie.

Postdoc in abolishing 'AI' & figuring out just how much of an oxymoron 'algorithmic fairness' is.

UCPH Health Complexity Center.

They/them.

[📚pedagogy in black✊🏾 @RenyTure]

Reminder that fewer than 3% of police killings lead to convictions. Yet folks get outraged when grieving families decide to act on their own. Then we pretend these systems weren’t built to fail us on purpose.

[Zeteo @zeteo_news]

“The world cannot silently just watch while this humanitarian crisis is happening, and this siege is also, of course, a continuation of many, many decades of illegal occupation.”

Zeteo contributor @gretathunberg explains how Israel bombed a Gaza Aid ship with drones.

[BDS movement @BDSmovement]

Boycott @Xbox now. #BoycottXbox

[404 Media @404mediaco]

A Y Combinator partner proudly launched an AI recipe app that told people how to make “Actual Cocaine” and a “Uranium Bomb.”

🔗https://t.co/b2gfdzdBsb

[404 Media @404mediaco]

DNA of 15 Million People for Sale in 23andMe Bankruptcy

🔗 https://t.co/xmBWdrCkK0

[Jackie Singh @HackingButLegal]

"Being a Jew in America right now is so bizarre."

[Denise Utochkin @werbliben]

@halcyon_hazel Only because it's a harmful right-wing fantasy. If you're genuinely curious, try reading pretty much anything by the brilliant @xriskology, watch @PhilosophyTube's episode on transhumanism, and throw in some Adorno for good measure.

[Jabari Brisport @JabariBrisport]

This surveillance robot was walking around the capitol today to normalize something that should not ever be normal.

Your government should not be a faceless omni-present surveillance force.

[Nada Elmikashfi @nadaelmikashfi]

My favorite delusion is that @TheDemocrats & their establishment think their biggest adversary is the “left” instead of the fascists currently dismantling government program by program. Like be serious for a second, this is why you continue LOSING.

[Denise Utochkin @werbliben]

'AI' is a technology of non-consent.

[Elizabeth Laraki @elizlaraki]

I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI).

I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right.

Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird.

I open my original photo.
No bra showing.

I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF...

Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨

Immediately, I email the conference host.
(FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.)

He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue.

He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website.

She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller.

AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯

—

FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.

[404 Media @404mediaco]

Public Library Ebook Service to Cull AI Slop After 404 Media Investigation

🔗https://t.co/quoH1M7ocb

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

This is un-fucking-believable: Two Israelis were shot in Miami, by a third Israeli who said, after getting arrested, that "he saw two Palestinians and shot and killed both.”

Now the Israeli "victims" are saying it was an antisemitic attempted murder and add "De*th to Arabs*

[Denise Utochkin @werbliben]

The gap can look even wider -- and better reflect the reality of the discourse -- if it was mentioned that some of us in the public interest camp advocate for full-on refusal. "AI is great" and "AI is good, but we need checks and balances" are not the only positions that exist.

[Kate Crawford @katecrawford]

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

[404 Media @404mediaco]

Lawyers caught citing AI-hallucinated cases call it a ‘cautionary tale’

🔗https://t.co/AQvoZizkSs

[B.M. @ireallyhateyou]

I think it's time to bring this one up again.

[404 Media @404mediaco]

AI-Generated slop Is already In your public library:

Librarians say that taxpayers are already paying for low quality AI-generated ebooks in public libraries.

🔗 https://t.co/ysLUOrdPxe

[denis the menace @dleven1997]

думаю стоит отдать должное редактор:ке материала. мне кажется он:а прекрасно продемонстрировала какие Вахштайн и Ко пиздаболы

[Denise Utochkin @werbliben]

@jjvincent It's worth noting that the estimate only takes into account the *loading of the web page* and not the, you know, actually compute-intensive part of running the prompts (or the even more expensive part which is training the models -- which is a highly iterative process).

[Lauren McKenzie @TheMcKenziest]

They’re trying to let AI prescribe drugs now, so… that’s a thing that’s happening

[Tiberius @tiberiusfiles]

I wonder if the people condemning Just Stop Oil activists for destroying art are able to put two and two together yet.

Anyway, here’s an unrelated post…