UC Berkeley recently discovered a fund established in 1975 to fund research into eugenics. Nowadays, our (avowed) perspective on this ideology has changed, so they repurposed the fund and commissioned a series on the legacies of eugenics for the LA Review of Books.
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In the fifth essay of the Legacies of Eugenics series, Ruha Benjamin explores how AI evangelists wrap their self-interest in a cloak of humanistic concern.
By Ruha Benjamin for Los Angeles Review of Books on October 18, 2024
Using the method of jail(break)ing to study how the visualities of sensitive issues transform under the gaze of OpenAI ’s GPT 4o, we found that: -Jail(break)ing takes place when the prompts force the model to combine jailing (transforming or fine-tuning content to comply with content restrictions) and jailbreaking (attempting to bypass or circumvent these restrictions). – Image-to-text generation allows more space for controversy than text-to-image. – Visual outputs reveal issue-specific and shared transformation patterns for charged, ambiguous, or divisive artefacts. – These patterns include foregrounding the background or ‘dressing up’ (porn), imitative disambiguation (memes), pink-washing (protest), cartoonization/anonymization (war), and exaggeration of style (art).
By Alexandra Rosca, Elena Pilipets, Energy Ng, Esmée Colbourne, Marina Loureiro, Marloes Geboers, and Riccardo Ventura for Digital Methods Initiative on August 6, 2024
Using a very clever methodology, this year’s Digital Method Initiative Summer School participants show how generative AI models like OpenAI’s GTP-4o will “dress up” controversial topics when you push the model to work with controversial content, like war, protest, or porn.
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In the run-up to the EU elections, AlgorithmWatch has investigated which election-related images can be generated by popular AI systems. Two of the largest providers don’t adhere to security measures they have announced themselves recently.
By Nicolas Kayser-Bril for AlgorithmWatch on May 29, 2024
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