Today's AI Faultlines

Jon Ippolito

Professor of New Media
Director, Digital Curation graduate program

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AI fault lines

Text

LAION network diagram

How do transformers generate words and code?

Images

Ai Pope Francis Balenciaga Coat Xvga

How do diffusion models generate pictures?

Downsides

IMPACT RISK acronym Xvga

What risks does AI present?

Environment

Cooling Towers Bridge River Cc0 Xvga

What are AI's energy and water demands?

Metaphors

bender_emily_stochastic_parrot

Robot, parrot, or superbeing?

Discretion

High v low stakes (as represented by poker chips)

When can you trust AI?

Practice

Ai Text Prompt Simple Anatomy

What prompts give the best results?

Creativity

Ai Better Prompt With Artists Name Sd

Can AI be creative? Can it be copyrighted?

Collections

Robots rewriting archive or library

What is the impact on the archive?

Governance

robot hand submitting a ballot

What is AI's impact on law and elections?
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