Episode 41: Sweating into AI Fall, September 9 2024

Did your summer feel like an unending barrage of terrible ideas for how to use “AI”? You’re not alone. It's time for Emily and Alex to clear out the poison, purge some backlog, and take another journey through AI hell -- from surveillance of emotions, to continued hype in education and art.Fresh AI Hell:Synthetic data for Hollywood test screeningsNaNoWriMo's AI failAI is built on exploitationNaNoWriMo sponsored by an AI writing companyNaNoWriMo's AI writing sponsor creates bad writingAI assistant rickrolls customersProgramming LLMs with "fiduciary duty"Canva increasing prices thank to "AI" featuresAd spending by AI companiesClearview AI hit with largest GDPR fine yet'AI detection' in schools harms neurodivergent kidsCS prof admits unethical ChatGPT useCollege recruiter chatbot can't discuss politics"The AI-powered nonprofits reimagining education"Teaching AI at art schoolsProfessors' 'AI twins' as teaching assistantsA teacherless AI classroomAnother 'AI scientist'LLMs still biased against African American EnglishAI "enhances" photo of Black people into white-appearingEric Schmidt: Go ahead, steal data with ChatGPTThe environmental cost of Google's "AI Overviews"Jeff Bezos' "Grand Challenge" for AI in environmentWhat I found in an AI-company's e-wastexAI accused of worsening smog with unauthorized gas turbinesSmile surveillance of workersAI for "emotion recognition" of rail passengersChatbot harassment scenario reveals real victimAI has hampered productivity"AI" in a product description turns off consumersIs tripe kosher? It depends on the religion of the cow.Check out future streams on Twitch. Meanwhile, send us any AI Hell you see.Find our book The AI Con here, and MAIHT3k merch here.Subscribe to our newsletter via Buttondown.Follow us!EmilyBluesky: emilymbender.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@EmilyMBenderAlexBluesky: alexhanna.bsky.socialMastodon: dair-community.social/@alexTwitter: @alexhannaMusic by Toby Menon.Artwork by Naomi Pleasure-Park. Production by Ozzy Llinas Goodman.