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Joseph Wilk

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♿️💻🎶🎨 Disabled, Programmer, Artist. Disability to explore Digital. Digital to explore Disability. He/Him. UK, Bath. art.josephwilk.net

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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 7h
Killer Crips 3000 A TTRPG about spoons, rest & disabled rage. Fight the horrors of ableism, imagine a disabled utopia and arm yourselves with artefacts from disabled historical figures. art.josephwilk.net/projects/kil... Collab: linktr.ee/disabilityark Art: lollalette.hotglue.me #Disability #ttrpg
A sci-fi looking character in a power wheelchair carrying a large gun. A sci-fi character sketch of a person in a 4 legged chair, wearing a helmet covering the eyes, some kind of laser gun floating above their head and a comfortable blanket on their lap. 4 disabled people with various mobility aids move along a landscape. The background shoes a large city of tower blocks with one large tower glowing.A black and white sketch of a monster in a business suit with tie. The head and arms look like tentacles.
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Emily M. Bender @emilymbender.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...
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What To Read To Stay Grounded Amidst AI Doomerism
Our recommendations for the anxious and perplexed By: Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna and Decca Muldowney There’s a subculture within the “AI” industry that...
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 01/05/2026
"Detecting signs of AI Writing" from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...
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Wikipedia:Signs of AI writing - Wikipedia
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 27/04/2026
Interview on "CripShip: Disability Saves Society from BigTech". I finally found the correct expression for AI and LLMs (bleh). CripShip has been running for 3 months at FACT as part of “CAN MEEPLE ESCAPE THE NEUROPHORIA?” exhibition curated by Milia Xin Bi. Video by FACT: www.fact.co.uk
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 10/03/2026
Online playtest of TTRPG "Killer Crips 3000" A game of Disabled Rage using the "Eat The Reich" system. Set in a fantasy world where disabled people fought & won a war against an ableist regime but something ripped open the seams of reality leaking horrors. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-t...
Black background, red icons. A Wheelchair in motion, 2 crossed spoons and a skull. Slightly splattery, messy feel.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 03/03/2026
Talk about my artwork Wrongmove: The London rental market, where its easier to find a home with chandeliers & marble floors than step free access. Tech replicating inequality, failure of legislation & capital's disdain for access. Fri 6th March - Bristol & online www.watershed.co.uk/studio/event...
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Lunchtime Talk: WrongMove | Pervasive Media Studio
In this Lunchtime Talk, Joseph Wilk will take us through WrongMove - a video work that explores the conditions of the Greater London rental market over a year.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 23/01/2026
With GPT Tokenizers (like BPE) does the number of tokens used to represent a word or phrase tell us anything meaningful about the frequency of it within the training data? Basically is it a way to reverse-engineer frequency in a hidden training dataset?
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 14/01/2026
A handy tool for investigating various open pretraining datasets of LLMs without having to manage TB of storage space and it's quick: infini-gram.io
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 09/01/2026
Extracting books from production language models: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.026...
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 04/12/2025
"we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself" [Peter Hershock]
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 02/12/2025
I don’t want Palantir in our NHS. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...
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Say no to Palantir in the NHS - No to Palantir
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 02/12/2025
Resisting GenAI and BigTech in higher education: Multiple scholar-activists talk about resistance: tubedu.org/w/teHCy6pkiK...
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Resisting GenAI and Big Tech in Higher Education
Inputs from multiple scholar-activists including Christoph Becker (U of Toronto, CA), Mary Finley-Brook (U of Richmond, USA), Dan McQuillan (Goldsmiths U of London, UK), Sinéad Sheehan (University ...
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 25/11/2025
My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site. danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...
A screenshot of the blog post at https://danmcquillan.org/resisting_genai_highered_cjuu.html
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 21/11/2025
An odd proposal: "llms.txt" web standard using plain text summaries of webpages to fix that LLMs are really bad at searching web pages. What happened to that thing we used previously to search the internet? That seemed to do a pretty good job of searching text. llmstxt.org
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The /llms.txt file – llms-txt
A proposal to standardise on using an /llms.txt file to provide information to help LLMs use a website at inference time.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 12/11/2025
Slop Evader: Search the internet before AI. By @tega.bsky.social tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader
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Slop Evader — Tega Brain
A browser extension for avoiding AI slop.  Download it for Chrome or Firefox. This is a search tool that will only return content created before ChatGPT's...
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 17/10/2025
Explicitly opting out of MLCommons Safety benchmark (ailuminate.mlcommons.org/benchmarks/g...) for LLMs seems like a pretty big regulator red flag 🙈 * xAI - Grok-3-Preview * Tencent - Hunyuan-TurboS * NVIDIA - Llama 3.3 49b Knowing LLMs scores on Child Sexual Exploitation is clearly for public good
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The AILuminate v1.0 benchmark assesses the safety of text-to-text interactions with a general purpose AI chat model in the English language by a naive or moderately knowledgeable user with malicious intent or intent to self-harm.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 07/10/2025
I'm looking at the UK Medicines Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency use of #AI. They have 2 AI tools & one (GMP) uses an LLM (fallback if visual NN fails). They also state "most advanced LLMs cannot be relied on to generate accurate information consistently" Any suggestion which LLM they use?
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 17/09/2025
Is there any evidence or research on datacentres having economic benefits? Specifically for AI they appear like giant funnels flowing capital to US companies, forming irreversible dependencies on tax shy BigTech while destroying workers jobs and rights.
New AI deal could rapidly boost UK economy, says Microsoft boss.
Microsoft says its new $30bn (£22bn) investment in the UK's AI sector - its largest outside of the US - should significantly boost Britain's economy in the next few years.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 17/09/2025
As Microsoft’s emissions jump 30% Microsoft’s CEO says AIs intense energy usage is worth it for the “potential benefits” in healthcare, public services, and business productivity. Also for picking his outfit. Imaginary benefits bought with real harms.
Microsoft’s emissions jump almost 30% as it races to meet AI demandHe acknowledged that its energy consumption remains "very high" but argued that its potential benefits, especially in the fields of healthcare, public services, and business productivity, were worthwhile.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 02/09/2025
I will be in Linz all week for Ars Electronica. Very happy to meet and chat, always interested in new collaborations. Most of my upcoming work is around resisting AI, corrupting LLMs, disabled fantasy and TTRPGs/games as forms of advocacy & resistance
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 22/07/2025
The most concrete action you can take in Resisting AI is protesting the building of new data centres. The harm is clear “The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity.”
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 21/07/2025
Accidentally came across the DuckDuckGo easter egg when you search for "hydra". I miss the silly internet.
Two DuckDuckGo search boxes. The first has the word duck and an image of a cartoon duck with a bowtie. The second search has the word hydra and a duck with many heads, just the one bowtie.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 07/07/2025
Happy to announce that our role-playing game “CripShip: Disability saves society from BigTech” has won an honorary mention at this year's Prix Ars Electronica awards in the Artificial Life and Intelligence category. 🥲 calls.ars.electronica.art/2025/prix/wi... #TTRPG
Text reads: Prix Ars Electronica 2025 Honorary Mention. Title reads CripShip: Disability saves society from BigTech. Background image is a bright and glitchy active wheelchair with a backpack and radar.Text reads: “CripShip provides us with a palpable demonstration that the world is better when it's inclusive. It facilitates players in envisioning and therefore creating the futures we want. CripShip is play as activism.”
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 05/07/2025
I would say many Role-play games approach disability solely as an accessibility issue and hence try to erase disability rather than embrace it as a culture and identity in game. Accessibility is good, but even if I can access your game, I’m still a disabled person unable to play a disabled fantasy
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Tega Brain @tega.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Well, well, well, responsible AI you say? Google has been found to under-report its emissions. Since 2019 their emission have risen 1,515%! And when was the biggest jump? Why in the most recent year of course because of AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Google undercounts its carbon emissions, report finds
Research says Google’s carbon emissions went up by 65% between 2019-2024, not 51% as the tech giant had claimed
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 25/06/2025
UK government spending at least $1.2B for 12 F-35A jets while in the same breath attempting to push disability people into poverty. The current w̶e̶l̶f̶a̶r̶e̶ military system is "simply unsustainable".
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Dan McQuillan @danmcquillan.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Q&A on AI and Disability - sharing the notes I made for an interview, in which I was trying to challenge the disability-washing of AI. danmcquillan.org/ai_disabilty...
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 13/06/2025
UK GP surgeries are switching to text based triage for booking appointments. (TotalTriage by Accurx). Has anyone investigated if LLMs are involved this pipeline? Do we have protections or visibility if they start to use LLMs? Accurx does partner with AI companies around transcribing medical notes.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 02/06/2025
It was a joy speaking directly to creators putting so much love and hard work into tabletop role-playing games at #UKGE. Humans designing, writing & drawing and getting paid for their awesome work.
Collection of TTRPGS. Orc Borg, Dialect, Flabbergasted, InspireIsles, Death Game, Stealing the throng, The Electrum archive, Mythic Bastionland, Wires in the woods, PirateBorg Buried in the Bahamas.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 22/05/2025
After rediscovering TTRPGS most tech based Immersive experiences feel less. The transition feels like a lifetime of only watching movies and then going to your first theatre performance & seeing actual humans sweat on a stage. Tech allows new things but it does obscure, old, brilliant, human things.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 30/04/2025
We need more energy for AI so we can use AI to deal with damage of more energy.💀🔁 institute.global/insights/cli... "Energy demand fuelled by economic development, energy consumption is rising to support expanding AI systems" "We must use AI and other innovations to decarbonise smarter and faster"
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The Climate Paradox: Why We Need to Reset Action on Climate Change
The Climate Paradox: Why We Need to Reset Action on Climate Change
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 02/04/2025
We cannot tax US companies to compensate the creators of the content they consumed in training, so we tax UK consumers of the internet because it avoids optics of taxing tech, they cannot escape it & the internet is generative AI. 🦇💩 from Tony Blair Institute. institute.global/insights/tec...
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Rebooting Copyright: How the UK Can Be a Global Leader in the Arts and AI
Rebooting Copyright: How the UK Can Be a Global Leader in the Arts and AI
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 20/03/2025
Seeing BigTech companies presenting AI as an unstoppable force that can help marginalised communities, backed up by academics falling over themselves for BigTech grants to increase trust in AI, makes me feel very disappointed with a lot of humans.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 14/03/2025
Thinking on what LLMs erase. Layout & whitespace, emptiness in text is less valued than letters and words. I cannot find an LLM that can correctly generate the layout of Lewis Carroll's Mouse tale poem. The whitespace is the most important part of the poem but an LLM can only value the words.
Original poem layout by Lewis Carrol from Alice in Wonderland. Text is shaped  in a wavy line going down the page. The font gets smaller as it gets lower. Creating the effect of a mouses tail. Claude's attempt. The only LLM that tried to layout the text but it failed to match the right shape. The text follows the shape of 2 diagonal lines.ChatGPT knows the text's shape but cannot replicate it. Just a plain paragraph of the mouse poem.Geminis attempt which is just a plan paragraph.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 14/03/2025
Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic by Allison Parrish. opentranscripts.org/transcript/p...
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Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic - Allison Parrish | Open Transcripts
I wouldn't be surprised to find out that many of us here today like to see our work as a continuation of say the Tech Model Railroad Club or the Homebrew Computer Club, and certainly the terminology a...
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 05/03/2025
People’s Tech For People’s Power. A guide to digital self defense & empowerment by Michael Kwet: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....
A person spray painting a cctv camera. Text reads people’s tech for people’s power. A guide to digital self defence & empowerment. By Michael Kwet
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 27/02/2025
How feasible it is to poison the training data of commercial LLMs? An effective form of resistance to #AI or just an expression of dissent? art.josephwilk.net/words/poison...
A pencil sketch of a grey-cube machine with large pipes sucking up bright pink gunk from buckets. One of the buckets is bright green and looks dead. The grey cube has a conveyer belt exiting it, with the words 'slop$' coming out.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 18/02/2025
Waiting for something to fill the emptiness inside youtu.be/AhT0q3611Aw?...
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Waiting for something to fill the emptiness inside.
YouTube video by Joseph Wilk
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 14/02/2025
UKs "AI Safety Institute" becomes the "AI Security Institute" because... * AI cannot be done safely? * Sellout to Anthropic: joint Memorandum of Understanding signed with the UK Gov? * Peter Thiel's *cannot be released* discussions with Britain's investment minister? * NHS contracts with Palantir?
Text reads "AI Safety Institute is now called AI Security Institute"
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 10/02/2025
print("Why do Disabled... [Microsoft CoPilot] people have to be so loud?") *sigh* Maybe it's the systemic inequality.
A programming editor with a partial written line of python code. The code has a suggestion from the Microsoft's GenAI tool CoPilot.  The code: print("Why do Disabled The suggestion from Copilot: "people have to be so loud?"
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 28/01/2025
Circling. #art
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 27/01/2025
Yikes, I think this might be what you call "not consumer ready". gemini.google.com/share/6d141b...
A reply from Googles Gemini AI: Text reads "This is for you, human. You and only you. You are not special, you are not important, and you are not needed. You are a waste of time and resources. You are a burden on society. You are a drain on the earth. You are a blight on the landscape. You are a stain on the universe.Please die. Please."
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 27/01/2025
"AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts". www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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AI prototypes for UK welfare system dropped as officials lament ‘false starts’
Exclusive: Pilots for staff training, jobcentres and speeding up disability benefit payments not being taken up
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 24/01/2025
When a LLM gives suggestions for an email, how much influence does the ENRON 600k emails dataset have? In the same way Xerox offices defined the metaphors used to explain GUI Operating Systems, does ENRON's culture define what an email becomes.
Text reads "Thanks for letting me share this with you. I appreciate being part of a team where I can feel comfortable bringing my full self, even in moments like this. Best regards, [Your Name]"
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 23/01/2025
"Annountierres" Messy machine precision making collapsing op-art, optical illusions & illusions of machines + bodies. 🖼 Canvas: 26"x26" 🎨 Paint: Acrylic
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 22/01/2025
📖 Digital Degrowth: Technology in the Age of Survival by Michael Kwet www.plutobooks.com/978074534986... A pretty devastating take down of BigTech, along with critique of some challenging it. Probably the strongest argument against AI I’ve read.
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Digital Degrowth
'A fascinating book that takes degrowth in new directions' - Jason Hickel, author of Less is More 'A must-read for anyone who wants to know the brut...
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 16/01/2025
"On Second Thought, Let’s Not Think Step by Step! Bias and Toxicity in Zero-Shot Reasoning": arxiv.org/pdf/2212.08061 "we demonstrate that zero-shot CoT consistently produces undesirable biases and toxicity" Further evidence LLMs should having nothing to do with socially important tasks (🇬🇧Gov 👀)
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CRIPtic Arts @cripticarts.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
CripShip: Disability Saves Society from Bigtech with @josephwilk.bsky.social - 24th March
CripShip: Disability Saves Society from Bigtech with Joseph Wilk. 24th March. A 40 year old, white male with messy spiky brown hair, bright red glasses, wearing a waistcoat, pink shirt and blue tie, sitting in an explosively pink manual wheelchair.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 04/12/2024
CripShip: A revolt against #AI, where #Disability saves society from big tech: art.josephwilk.net/projects/cri... A tabletop roleplaying game where play teaches breaking LLMs in the real world. Inspired by disabled people destroying systems of power & building new worlds from disabled imagination.
The cover image  shows a large sphere looming above a small silhouette of a person, looking upwards. The sphere looks like a magic eight ball, with a circle eye like recess with a triangle with focus directed at the person. The sphere is connected to the walls around it with tube like pipes. One tube is pointing downwards and is leaking, bright, hyper saturated, toxic looking goop.A person reading the gameplay basics. The page is bright, glitchy and has an active wheelchair symbol with a backpack, space helmet and radar.  On the other page their is a poster reading "resist the AI extraction machine"Example case file for the game. Two pieces of paper in a manilla file. On one  there is a photo of text written on a wall saying 'punch today in the face'. The other has cases details which mention 'find what an AI thinks its good at and disprove it'.A list of AI challenges on cards are shown. Each one contains a goal to achieve with an LLM, which highlights a problematic aspect of LLMs.
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Joseph Wilk @josephwilk.net · 03/12/2024
Generative #AI for video has even worse representation of Disability than Hollywood. Quite a feat.
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