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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Wednesday, 31-Jul-2024 22:52:00 JST Per Axbom

Organisations when they hire consultancy services: “We need a company credit check and report to ensure your finances are stable and that this will be a sustainable relationship.”

Organisations when deciding on using OpenAI: “We understand you spend $700,000 per day and need $5 billion a year to survive as a company, which is way more than any company has ever raised in history. Please take our money. We will integrate your tool into all our tools now. The lottery is our favorite way of investing in our own future.”

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Thursday, 04-Jul-2024 01:12:33 JST Per Axbom

Vimeo’s stance on user content vis-à-vis generative AI:

”After extensive outreach and hearing your thoughts, we are taking a definitive stance contrary to many other community websites: Vimeo will not allow generative AI models to be trained using videos hosted on our platform without your explicit consent, even if you use our free offerings. In addition, we prohibit unauthorized content scraping (by model companies) and continue to implement security protocols designed to protect user-generated content.”

https://vimeo.com/blog/post/vimeos-position-on-ai/

#vimeo #aiethics
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1. Vimeo's position on AI
  
  from @vimeo
  
  A message from our CEO on Vimeo's use of AI.
Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Saturday, 04-May-2024 16:24:37 JST Per Axbom

How people trust this software for decision-making is beyond me…

https://chat.openai.com/share/534ac2bd-332c-43d5-a26c-4b1bd8050c38
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1. Me: complete this sentence with a 4-letter word: the cat sat in the ChatGPT: The cat sat in the sun. Me: Did you understand the question? ChatGPT: Yes, I understood the question. You asked me to complete the sentence "the cat sat in the ____" with a 4-letter word. Me: And how many letters are in the word you wrote? ChatGPT: Apologies for that oversight. The word I provided, "sun," has three letters. Let me try again: "the cat sat in the den."
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2. No result found on File_thumbnail lookup.
  
  https://chat.openai.com/share/534ac2bd-332c-43d5-a26c-4b1bd8050c38
Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Thursday, 07-Mar-2024 19:50:11 JST Per Axbom

Looking at complaints can be one way of surfacing pain points in a workflow. Often used by designers as input for customer journey maps.

But you also need to consider who is behind the complaint, who feels comfortable complaining and who is not given an opportunity to complain.

If you don't know what I mean by "not given an opportunity to complain", I'd urge you to read more about privilege, oppression and social norms.

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 01:08:02 JST Per Axbom

Okay, here is my take on Nielsen's latest post.

"Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it not been written by someone a great many people take seriously in the UX industry I likely would just have dismissed it. But seeing how harmful I consider the post to potentially be, I would like to nip this in the bud. My reflection is that the published post is misleading, self-contradictory and underhanded. I'll walk you through the whole of it and provide my commentary and reasoning. 👇

https://axbom.com/nielsen-generative-ui-failure/

#accessibility #a11y #ux
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1. On Nielsen's ideas about generative UI for resolving accessibility
  
  from @axbom
  
  "Accessibility has failed as a way to make computers usable for disabled users." Thus begins a newsletter by Jakob Nielsen. And had it not been written by someone a great many people take seriously in the UX industry I likely would just have dismissed it. But seeing how harmful I
Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 00:45:02 JST Per Axbom

Reading Jakob Nielsen is not good for my blood pressure. But someone sent me this absurd content, it needs a response and I feel compelled to write. That's the rest of the day sorted.

No I won't even link to his post.

#a11y #accessibility

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Saturday, 02-Mar-2024 00:44:59 JST Per Axbom
in reply to
- Per Axbom
If anyone in the #accessibility space (or #ux in general) would be interested in reading my draft post commenting on Jakob Nielsen's "generative UI" to resolve accessibility,I'd be happy to send a link in DM. I need a confidence boost before publishing, I guess...

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Saturday, 17-Feb-2024 18:20:59 JST Per Axbom

The electricity and water use required by data centres is becoming cause for concern. Iowa and Ireland are calling for moratoriums on new development projects. Microsoft’s global water consumption grew 34% from 2021 to 2022. And estimates say that around 80% of content in data centres could be stuff we never use again, stored by default to consume energy in perpetuity for no purpose at all.

Generative video: Hold my beer.

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Monday, 11-Sep-2023 22:49:21 JST Per Axbom

Water required by data centers is increasing considerably with the advent of generative AI. Large language models trained on vast amounts of data need substantial cooling.

While some may argue that water can be reused, it is often pulled from water supplies in times of significant heatwaves, when residents are in need of it as well, and supplies diminsh faster.

In July of 2022, Microsoft pumped in about 11.5 million gallons of water to its cluster of Iowa data centers, according to the West Des Moines Water Works. That’s around 6% of all the water used in the district, which also supplies drinking water to residents.

Meanwhile, the energy required is of course not recycled – and it’s to be expected that energy use is growing as well. The companies behind the tools are just not disclosing how much their AI investments are costing us when it comes to their carbon footprint.

”In its latest environmental report, Microsoft disclosed that its global water consumption spiked 34% from 2021 to 2022 (to nearly 1.7 billion gallons, or more than 2,500 Olympic-sized swimming pools), a sharp increase compared to previous years that outside researchers tie to its AI research.”

https://fortune.com/2023/09/09/ai-chatgpt-usage-fuels-spike-in-microsoft-water-consumption/
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1. A.I. tools fueled a 34% spike in Microsoft’s water consumption, and one city with its data centers is concerned about the effect on residential supply
  
  “They were pretty secretive on what they’re doing out there,” says a former mayor about Microsoft’s data center projects.
Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Saturday, 06-May-2023 19:26:57 JST Per Axbom
- The Continent
”By donning a second-hand hat, a 74-year-old man is about to become monarch of a small island kingdom”

As expected, the best reporting on today’s coronation comes from @thecontinent

While many mentioned atrocities are well-known, this part of erased African history is rarely talked about:

”While England has records of who lived in what village in 1068, its empire was quick to destroy the histories of those it colonised. These could then be overwritten with Protestant orthodoxy and white exceptionalism, banning things like queer love, once part of Africas cultural fabric.”

https://www.thecontinent.org/

#Coronation
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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Wednesday, 19-Apr-2023 18:33:52 JST Per Axbom

Way more dangerous than a jerk is a billionaire jerk who feels offended. Completely unpredictable with unjustified power and impact.

I'm not afraid of AI (not in the sense the manufacturers would have you be) but I am afraid of the inappropriate power of the billionaires backing their development.

Suppose it's time to write an open letter calling for a pause on giant billionaire experiments.

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Thursday, 02-Feb-2023 23:54:07 JST Per Axbom
in reply to
- Aral Balkan
@aral

Wow...

"We want to be able to choose the unethical route without you calling attention to it..."

It's just wild that people go to these lengths to silence anyone holding them accountabile to their own professings.

🙄

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:42:31 JST Per Axbom
in reply to
@aral I've always heard this was a design critique specifically directed at hostile architecture but now I feel more unsure.

@Catweazle @stooovie

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Per Axbom (axbom@axbom.me)'s status on Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:42:26 JST Per Axbom
in reply to
@aral @Catweazle @stooovie
This appears to be the best clue I’ve found:
“Artist Fabian Brunsing tackled similar themes with a piece which criticizes the privatization of our public spaces.”

In conversation Monday, 16-Jan-2023 03:42:26 JST from axbom.me permalink

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