Co-authored with Søren Pold and presented in August at Computing [X] Crisis in Aarhus, our new paper “Reading the Praise/Prompt Machine: An Interface Criticism Approach to ChatGPT” introduces novel methods for critiquing the linguistic interfaces of AI chatbots. We theorize …
Open AI CEO Sam Altman recently published a short essay called “The Intelligence Age.” Not dissimilar from various essays by other Silicon Valley figures, his obsessions with growth and scale are evident throughout the text. Instead of composing an essayistic …
Visit Read the Redaction Poetry Techno-Optimist Manifesto In October 2023, the influential Silicon Valley venture capitalist Marc Andreessen published what he titled his Techno-Optimist Manifesto, an anti-regulation anti-ethics hyper-capitalist growth-obsessed screed that, sadly, highlights the thinking that’s led to so …
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Visit Go to Get Less Description For five years, the installation Get More—which lets people increment a number on a screen by visiting a website—has been installed in galleries and office buildings and homes, and has enjoyed periodic presence on …
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A browser extension that hides all the metrics on Instagram Install Install on Firefox (Chrome version was forced off the Web Store by Instagram in 2020) Introduction Instagram, like other social networks, is full of numbers. These numbers, or metrics, …
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Q: When I install Go Rando on Chrome (or other browsers) it says Go Rando can “Read and change all data on Facebook.” What’s up with that? A: In order for the Go Rando extension to access the code that …
Installing Go Rando on your desktop browser is easy. Find your browser below and follow the instructions. Google Chrome Click the button below to complete the installation of Go Rando on Google Chrome. When it finishes, load or reload Facebook. …
Install Install Go Rando on Chrome Introduction Facebook’s “reactions” let you express how you feel about a link, photo, or status. While such data might be helpful for your friends, these recorded feelings also enable increased surveillance, government profiling, more …
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The Music Obfuscator will hide your music from YouTube copyright violation systems; but how altered will the music have to be to evade detection?
Q: Does ScareMail store or save any information? Does it violate my privacy in any way? A: No! While ScareMail could be written to read your email, all it does is watch for the Gmail compose window and then insert …