Pax Silica

by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action Los Angeles/People Against Racist Terror (ARA-LA/PART) https://antiracist.org/pax-silica/ Talk about Orwellian Double-Speak. Pax Silica is a US-led initiative to put Artificial Intelligence, which is still primarily driven by military and surveillance tech, at the center of an international geo-strategic economic development and national security alliance directed at countering China and protecting US economic, political and military dominance in the second quarter of the 21st Century. It is being [...]

Fake A-I CEO Indicted by Feds

Used hundreds of low-paid Filipino workers to simulate automated purchasing by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action LA I have written before that all A-I depends heavily on super-exploited digital contract employees in the Global South to tag and process theĀ  text, visual and audio files "fed" to generative A-I so-called "machine learning". See https://antiracist.org/a-i-squared-artificial-intelligence-product-and-tool-of-american-imperialism/ But this latest scam takes the cake. According to a press release from the US Attorney for the Southern [...]

A.I.’s Dirty Secret: It’s Powered by Digital Sweatshops

Millions of human workers in digital sweatshops power Artificial Intelligence by Michael Novick, Anti-Racist Action-LA The current strikes by screen-writers and actors in the WGA and SAG-AFTRA have focused attention on the use of AI-- "Artificial Intelligence" using large language models by big corporations -- to try to automate creative jobs and other work, through the use of computers that can simulate voices, generate designs, and produce meaningful literary and analytical texts. [...]

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