Author: Andrea Hidalgo
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An Eternal Tribute to 2001: A Space Odyssey
Something uncanny is happening in wrestling. And I heard you enjoy listening to computer music. Watch my AI and entirely found footage film final to find out how it all relates back to rage. Sources: 2001: A Space Odyssey “Monkey Scene” Adobe Generative AI Alex Bernstein at the IBM 704 An IBM 704 computer at…
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AI Digital Divide: Tech Literacy
In light of our Mission Impossible screening this week, we did a deep dive on the Hollywood superstar of American cinema: Tom Cruise. During our discussions, we covered his prolonged involvement in the Church of Scientology, extreme stunts on set, and briefly touched on his connection to discourses concerning deepfake AI. Since we are all…
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Can you truly opt-out of AI data collection?
Last week I came across a guide published by Wired on how to opt-out of having my personal data being used to train generative AI programs. In the guide, the authors included a list of industry-dominating tech companies, all which have elaborate opt-out processes, such as: Adobe, Amazon, Google Gemini, Grammarly, Hubspot, OpenAI (ChatGPT), Perplexity,…
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AI Kim K Spills Her Tech Industry Secret
From celebrity Deepfakes to Elon Musk’s Tesla humanoid robots, AI Kim K is a short and satirical experimental film that briefly probes the misconceptions, hopes, and fantasies about artificial intelligence. Using AI-found footage and generative AI, the film prompts reflections on the technological singularity and the anthropomorphization of AI as agents of contemporary capitalism. In…
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Clean These Lenses
As citizens of the internet, we are often forcefully immersed into a world of technology that functions as a transcendental extension of ourselves. In Douglas Cammell’s Demon Seed, the intersection of AI and women’s issues is presented through a a scifi horror story—serving as a discomforting allegory for the time in which it was created,…
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Not human. Not code. But a secret third thing…
Humans cannot help but develop emotional attachments for the things they own and it certainly does not help that we anthropomorphize everything—that includes AI chatbots. Advancements in the artificial intelligence field are occurring faster than you can say knife and allowing chatbots to simulate emotional connections, and even enter marriages with us. Although these AI…
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AI and Justice
Last year, Judge Juan Manuel Padilla in Cartagena, Colombia, sought assistance from ChatGPT in a legal case involving insurance coverage for an autistic child’s medical treatment. Despite the verdict being in the family’s favor, the inclusion of ChatGPT in the court ruling started a debate. The Guardian highlights experts’ strong opposition to AI integration into…