"Truth, dare, spin bottles / You know how to ball, I know Aristotle..." -- Taylor Swift, So High School
ALLEGORY OF THE CAVE DISCUSSION: IS ALL ART DECEPTIVE? WHAT IS A REAL OBJECT?
Discussions
Alex: Plato discussion
Crits (Carla & Alex)
Open Work Session (if time remains)
Use one of the generative tools to make something that argues about its own “realness”
WRITE a two paragraph response [post to the Discord, also share as a doc in your folder on the class google drive] two of the following (you can pick two contradictory opinions and compare, or two pieces that reinforce each other-- fine either way!) and post it on the Class Discord:
This overview of current AI case filings, where you can click through to detailed descriptions of the legal grounds for each case
LAION-5B, Stable Diffusion 1.5, and the Original Sin of Generative AI by Eryk Salvaggio on TechPolicy.Press (specifically addresses images of child sexual abuse (CSAM) in the dataset and their consequences)
Electricity grids creak as AI demands soar (short news factual article that pairs with above)
Data Workers’ Inquiry -- a look at the human costs of producing AI front end services
Specifically: read some of the testimonies, videos, and more from workers themselves, many of whom produce the datasets AI products use directly.
HOT TIP: Run out of free articles on a publication website like the New Yorker? Open a new incognito window in Chrome or spoof an IP in a VPN to get access! NYU has these publications in databases but they're often a few weeks behind.
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