, a photojournalist. The photograph showed over 520 illicit firearms that were collected in Kenya near Nairobi.
At the time, the experience of using the tool was both under- and overwhelming, but I still think about that pairing of church and firearms. It never would have occurred to me, an artist with a background in photography, to put those two images together; but once I saw the pairing with its visual similarity, I couldn’t unsee it. It was too perfect, too much in conversation with each other.
Recognition didn’t succeed as an industrial machine learning-based tool because so many of the outputs were wrong, very wrong. But reframing Recognition as a bot-like project makes it feel like a wild success. “Bot-like” is smaller and hacker-y, in my mind, than a large-scale AI project. Recognition was bot-like in autonomously making similar pairings as quickly and randomly as possible.
I know there’s tension in my love of bots because I can’t help but disclose the bad while highlighting the good. I want an internet with bots more than I want an internet without them. Some of the solutions thrown around by social networks to clamp down on harmful bots is to have bots registered, or to change API calls to make all bots harder to exist—I think the solution could be a mixture of those two, along with more human oversight.
I worry that in a rush to quickly fix a problem, we are losing a lot of what makes the internet so delightful. I want more weird and snarky bots, a bot that responds with images of watering wells whenever someone tweets “well, actually” into a conversation thread. I want more tools that use AI and bot-like behaviors to extend our creativity as humans, like Recognition and GPT3.
Lol, are u high?
Uhh what?
Wired =
This utter rubbish would not have been an article a year ago. You will take up any line of stupidity as long as it is in opposition to what or who you don't like. Flabbergastingly pathetic
Come on wired, really?!
Okay...
Gross 🤢