doesnotcomputeai.substack.com

www.jstor.org

The Machine in the Garden

Leo Marx, The Machine in the Garden, The New England Quarterly, Vol. 29, No. 1, Mar., 1956

www.sundaelabs.io

Sundae Labs PBC

We, the makers of the machines, are more than the sum of our parts. Let’s domesticate tech to aid human flourishing.

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www.theguardian.com

James Muldoon, Mark Graham and Callum Cant: ‘AI feeds off the work of human beings’

The Fairwork trio talk about their new book on the ‘extraction machine’, exposing the repetitive labour, often in terrible conditions, that big tech is using to create artificial intelligence

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/06/james-muldoon-mark-graham-callum-cant-ai-artificial-intelligence-human-work-exploitation-fairwork-feeding-machine social preview image

udara.io

Taming dynamic feeds

ideas, work and experiments

https://udara.io/virtual-lists social preview image

www.theatlantic.com

These 183,000 Books Are Fueling the Biggest Fight in Publishing and Tech

Use our new search tool to see which authors have been used to train the machines.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/09/books3-database-generative-ai-training-copyright-infringement/675363/ social preview image

theconversation.com

Thousands of AI-written, edited or ‘polished’ books are being sold – an eerie echo of Orwell’s ‘novel-writing machines’

In ‘1984,’ George Orwell envisaged a world in which books were a mass-produced commodity no different from ‘jam and bootlaces.’

andonlabs.com

Vending-Bench 2 | Andon Labs

We're releasing Vending-Bench 2, a benchmark for measuring AI model performance on running a business over long time horizons. Models are tasked with running a simulated vending machine business over a year and scored on their bank account balance at the end.