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Sarah Ciston

@sarahciston.com

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🌈 coding care | 🤖 intersectional ai | 🌀 making datasets and labyrinths

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Lilly Irani @gleemie.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Working people of this country do not deserve to have their lives put into a digital dragnet to become playthings of the oligarchs. Trump signed March EO calling for federal gov to share data across agencies. #sandiego tell Council: defund ALPR and delete the data! change.org/p/tell-city-...

Palantir Tapped to Compile Americans' Personal Data (headline of NY Times)
"In March, President Trump signed an executive order calling for the federal government to share data across agencies, raising questions over whether he might compile a master list of personal information on Americans that could give him untold surveillance power."

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Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com · 03/06/2025

Lucky and happy to be a research fellow at CAIS, where I get to look at the disturbing content that trains language models 🚯♻️📥 garbage in 🚯♻️📤 garbage out—and try to map more intersectional directions for machine learning 🏳️‍🌈🔓📖🤖✨

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Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com · 19/05/2025

Countdown to Spring 2026 release party begins now 🥰

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Manuel Puppis @manuelpuppis.ch · 13/03/2025

"Chatbots were generally bad at declining to answer questions they couldn’t answer accurately, offering incorrect or speculative answers instead. Premium chatbots provided more confidently incorrect answers than their free counterparts." Sounds promising. www.cjr.org/tow_center/w...

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AI Search Has A Citation Problem

We Compared Eight AI Search Engines. They’re All Bad at Citing News.

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Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com · 24/02/2025

Open-source lets us see how predictive systems encode biased, categorical logics. While better than closed systems, open-source alone does not address the issues with the logics themselves #predictivepolicing #criticalai

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Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com · 09/02/2025

Replicative AI is a more apt description of “generative AI.” The language matters.

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Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com · 23/01/2025

Stored datasets are "target banks" are people who are killed. And the "AI services" are built on the very same tools we toy with on our phones.

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Leaked documents expose deep ties between Israeli army and Microsoft

Since Oct. 7, the Israeli military has relied heavily on cloud and AI services from Microsoft and its partner OpenAI, while the tech giant’s staff embed with different units to support rollout, a join...

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Sarah Ciston @sarahciston.com · 23/01/2025

On bad faith arguments and "oh shit, this is a Nazi bar now":

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The Good Robot Podcast @goodrobotpod.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

NEW EPISODE! We talk to the artist/coder/critical AI scholar Sarah Ciston about their badass chatbot Ladymouth, which responds to trolls and incels on hate forums. Watch/listen now on YouTube, Apple, Spotify, or wherever else you get your podcasts! youtu.be/-EnzPpjmeGk?...

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Using Feminist Chatbots to Fight Trolls With Sarah Ciston

YouTube video by The Good Robot

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