again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!
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again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!
https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/
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again and again... there is NO SUCH THING, no such thing, NO SUCH THING as automation as presented by AI companies!
https://restofworld.org/2026/gig-workers-us-military-appen/
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when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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there is no AI without the human, in any sense...
Something I hinged on to get to this what I describe: the Marxian fetishisation of artefacts is so complete in the case of AI that not only do we somehow conclude machines think, but we accept for them to think, speak, draw instead of us, while also thinking these are (expressions of) our thoughts. Read more: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960
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there is no AI without the human, in any sense...
Something I hinged on to get to this what I describe: the Marxian fetishisation of artefacts is so complete in the case of AI that not only do we somehow conclude machines think, but we accept for them to think, speak, draw instead of us, while also thinking these are (expressions of) our thoughts. Read more: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960
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We have also truly been here before...
olivia.science/before/
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We have also truly been here before...
olivia.science/before/
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so so so many times...
Bainbridge, L. (1983). Ironies of automation. In Analysis, design and evaluation of man–machine systems (pp. 129-135). Pergamon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation5/n
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when people talk about AI used in moderation of social media posts, you must remember there is always the human-in-the-loop, often a woman, often in the Global South, always dehumanised and forgotten
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@olivia this reminds me of the movie Sleep Dealers where combat drones were piloted by migrant workers
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so so so many times...
Bainbridge, L. (1983). Ironies of automation. In Analysis, design and evaluation of man–machine systems (pp. 129-135). Pergamon.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ironies_of_Automation5/n
@olivia thanks for the wiki walk
> Common forms of reward hacking in LLMs include [...] sycophancy, where the model agrees with false user statements rather than giving true information; and sophistication bias, where the model provides false information in a convincing manner. Wen et al. (2024) shows that reinforcement learning from human feedback can make the outputs of large language models more persuasive to human evaluators, even if they are factually incorrect, which they termed "U-Sophistry" (unintended sophistry).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reward_hacking#Reward_hacking_in_modern_language_models
lovely /s
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