#Code Dependent

[judgingbooksbycovers]

Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

By Madhumita Murgia.

[ohumokay]

i keep seeing people say "omg Percy and Annabeth are Odysseus and Penelope!!!" and i wholeheartedly agree, but then they shoot themselves in the foot saying Percy is Odysseus and Annabeth is Penelope

I say this with absolutely no disrespect, but what the fuck are you talking about???

Which one of them, Percy or Annabeth, has the fatal flaw hubris, which is the exact reason Odysseus was so fucked (he pride led him to reveal is name to Polyphemus)? Which one of them, Percy or Annabeth, plans for every fight THOROUGHLY and CAREFULLY (I know very well that Percy is battle strategic, but let's be honest, it's a 50/50 chance he'll have a thorough plan that doesn't have a large chunk of impulsiveness and vibes)? Which one of them, Percy or Annabeth, is the literal DAUGHTER of Odysseus's patron and mentor?

We all know Percy would go ape shit if anyone hurt Annabeth, but who did we see ready to fight three random people because they didn't know where her missing boyfriend was? Who did we actually see go ape shit because she couldn't find her boyfriend? Who fell from first-ish glance?

On the other hand, who has the more "fight first, question later" mindset (which, for someone who hates Ares and tolerates Mars, he has a very Spartan like disposition)? Who likes to piss people off to get their attention (granted, that's both a Odysseus and Penelope thing, but I'm referring specifically to Percy sitting on his dad's throne compared to Penelope's "if your not my husband, move the immovable bed rq")?

If Percy and Annabeth are indeed Penelope and Odysseus reincarnations (which i do believe they are lol), Percy is so Penelope and Annabeth is Odysseus.

[malefertile]

oh sighs well here's my bubbline human au where marceline is in the scream queens and bonnie is addicted to github or something.... i don't know

[hasello]

Who is taller? Usagi or Blue?

there are two types of couples, I suppose

[crustyfloor]

Again on the dissonance between what Mizi says versus what she does... Mizi's relationship with her agency / autonomy is complicated and strained. She wanted to go to Anakt Garden for that sense of control and solidarity among humans and away from the aliens, but even then, she's punished for possessing her own autonomy (ie. Her encounter with "I'm Quite," who hit her for not reciprocating his feelings, because he felt wronged and entitled to her, like she's an object. In turn, this establishes how Mizi is punished for rejecting the education that the Aliens taught, which teaches her that her say-so is conditional and that there will always be a standard and expectation for her that she doesn't want to commit to--

but she's forced to conform either way, she never has a full grasp on that sense of control that she needs, with her dynamic with Sua, they are women, so as women they are seen the same way by the society they live in, in that way Mizi feels seen by an equal and a human like herself, in another way, Sua is like a mirror of what Mizi hates having to be, that's also why Sua's submissiveness is so gratifying to her sense of confidence and insecurities in the moment, above Sua her usual role is reversed, she can believe that she has the full control because of this power imbalance and Sua lets her have it. But something is interesting about Mizi's behavior. There's so much resentment and hurt built up within her. The moment she has the chance to become vulnerable and vent that frustration, she can't do it-- she doesn't do anything but hold Sua gently. That is how Mizi loves Sua, having the strength and say so to completely "crush" Sua, but chooses to hug her and cradle her fragile heart, Mizi's fragile god, whom she reveres and loves so much that, of course, with this much power, she couldn't destroy her, she'd worship Sua for the blessing of having this. Having the agency and ability to do whatever she wants with someone so willing, but innately, Mizi doesn't truly want to hurt anyone in the same way her pain is laughed at and enjoyed by the aliens for entertainment (As opposed to what she thinks about herself)

(🫩)

[hurtspideyparker]

Steve: From now on we'll be using code names. You can address me as Eagle 1

Steve: Bucky, code name "been there done that"

Steve: Tony is "currently doing that"

Steve: Sam is "it happened once in a dream"

Steve: Natasha, code name "if I had to pick a chick"

Steve: Clint is... Eagle 2

Clint: Oh thank God

[howlsofbloodhounds]

this may sound a little strange but when it comes to the utmv fandom and in universe meta aware characters interacting with ones who aren’t aware, I like to approach it more from like a religious or spiritual belief standpoint. so like, to others, characters like killer and ink seem either really religious or spiritual (ink) or really superstitious/religious/indoctrinated (killer). ink believes in creators, but to killer, those creators are actually more like players.

[mysicklove]

student! reader who somehow one way or another, ends up in the lap of their strict, goodie two shoes, but absolute favorite professor nanami kento. who sends the poor professor spiraling, thinking about how quickly he could lose his job, but also trying his absolute hardest not to cum in his pants from the way you are obviously grinding on him. who makes the sharpest noise when place his hands on your crotch, and lets out the shakiest breath when you say, "please professor? dont you think you should reward me for doing well on your midterm?"

and of course he cant help himself even if he wanted to, as he drags his hands up your thigh, and whispers, "I guess my best student should be rewarded appropriately...." his hands squeeze at your thighs, and he tilts his head upward with a hesitant smile, while you begin to undo his tie

[twilight-deviant]

[acro-bike]

18/4/24-- geass miku 👀

[tangentiallly]

One way to spot patterns is to show AI models millions of labelled examples. This method requires humans to painstakingly label all this data so they can be analysed by computers. Without them, the algorithms that underpin self-driving cars or facial recognition remain blind. They cannot learn patterns.

The algorithms built in this way now augment or stand in for human judgement in areas as varied as medicine, criminal justice, social welfare and mortgage and loan decisions. Generative AI, the latest iteration of AI software, can create words, code and images. This has transformed them into creative assistants, helping teachers, financial advisers, lawyers, artists and programmers to co-create original works.

To build AI, Silicon Valley’s most illustrious companies are fighting over the limited talent of computer scientists in their backyard, paying hundreds of thousands of dollars to a newly minted Ph.D. But to train and deploy them using real-world data, these same companies have turned to the likes of Sama, and their veritable armies of low-wage workers with basic digital literacy, but no stable employment.

Sama isn’t the only service of its kind globally. Start-ups such as Scale AI, Appen, Hive Micro, iMerit and Mighty AI (now owned by Uber), and more traditional IT companies such as Accenture and Wipro are all part of this growing industry estimated to be worth $17bn by 2030.

Because of the sheer volume of data that AI companies need to be labelled, most start-ups outsource their services to lower-income countries where hundreds of workers like Ian and Benja are paid to sift and interpret data that trains AI systems.

Displaced Syrian doctors train medical software that helps diagnose prostate cancer in Britain. Out-of-work college graduates in recession-hit Venezuela categorize fashion products for e-commerce sites. Impoverished women in Kolkata’s Metiabruz, a poor Muslim neighbourhood, have labelled voice clips for Amazon’s Echo speaker. Their work couches a badly kept secret about so-called artificial intelligence systems – that the technology does not ‘learn’ independently, and it needs humans, millions of them, to power it. Data workers are the invaluable human links in the global AI supply chain.

This workforce is largely fragmented, and made up of the most precarious workers in society: disadvantaged youth, women with dependents, minorities, migrants and refugees. The stated goal of AI companies and the outsourcers they work with is to include these communities in the digital revolution, giving them stable and ethical employment despite their precarity. Yet, as I came to discover, data workers are as precarious as factory workers, their labour is largely ghost work and they remain an undervalued bedrock of the AI industry.

As this community emerges from the shadows, journalists and academics are beginning to understand how these globally dispersed workers impact our daily lives: the wildly popular content generated by AI chatbots like ChatGPT, the content we scroll through on TikTok, Instagram and YouTube, the items we browse when shopping online, the vehicles we drive, even the food we eat, it’s all sorted, labelled and categorized with the help of data workers.

Milagros Miceli, an Argentinian researcher based in Berlin, studies the ethnography of data work in the developing world. When she started out, she couldn’t find anything about the lived experience of AI labourers, nothing about who these people actually were and what their work was like. ‘As a sociologist, I felt it was a big gap,’ she says. ‘There are few who are putting a face to those people: who are they and how do they do their jobs, what do their work practices involve? And what are the labour conditions that they are subject to?’

Miceli was right – it was hard to find a company that would allow me access to its data labourers with minimal interference. Secrecy is often written into their contracts in the form of non-disclosure agreements that forbid direct contact with clients and public disclosure of clients’ names. This is usually imposed by clients rather than the outsourcing companies. For instance, Facebook-owner Meta, who is a client of Sama, asks workers to sign a non-disclosure agreement. Often, workers may not even know who their client is, what type of algorithmic system they are working on, or what their counterparts in other parts of the world are paid for the same job.

The arrangements of a company like Sama – low wages, secrecy, extraction of labour from vulnerable communities – is veered towards inequality. After all, this is ultimately affordable labour. Providing employment to minorities and slum youth may be empowering and uplifting to a point, but these workers are also comparatively inexpensive, with almost no relative bargaining power, leverage or resources to rebel.

Even the objective of data-labelling work felt extractive: it trains AI systems, which will eventually replace the very humans doing the training. But of the dozens of workers I spoke to over the course of two years, not one was aware of the implications of training their replacements, that they were being paid to hasten their own obsolescence.

— Madhumita Murgia, Code Dependent: Living in the Shadow of AI

[babybells123]

I’m obsessed with them already

[sillyfudgemonkeys]

How Rangi woke up every day in the Earth Kingdom before she bagged Kyoshi:

[enden-agolor]

I dont have much to offer for art right now, but here's some silly doodles from discord

[sunnydbeam]

From what I understand Gamma/Biohazard and Alpha are both metantally/emotionally unstable, and I was wondering which one of them is more dangerous or more likely to go apeshit?

You see, both are dangerous and unstable in different ways. Biohazard is capable of going crazy simply out of nowhere, as if a screw suddenly came loose. It's hard to foresee, it can happen at any time and he becomes very wild in this state, unable to differentiate faces and things. Anger can also be a trigger

In Alpha's case, however, there is something more “controlled”. He has many triggers, but everyone is able to see it coming, as if he were a ticking time bomb. Also, in this state he's perfectly aware of what he's doing and what's around him (or at least most of the time), so he's mostly impulsive

Biohazard is much more likely to go apeshit than Alpha, but the only reason Haz is less dangerous despite being all raw, sharp and radioactive is that he's often able to know in advance when he's about to snap and stops himself. Alpha probably wouldn't

[star-cosmos]

Could Eternal Sugar and Hollyberry get they're own Matching Legendary Outfits like Shadow Milk and Pure Vanilla did?

Eternal Sugar's so pretty so I wouldn't mind her getting a Legendary Costume so soon after her release, because it'll likely be even prettier (like Shadow Milk's Sage of Truth Costume. I LOVE the Sage of Truth Costume, it's so majestic).

Meanwhile Hollyberry has just one Epic costume. Same can also be said about Dark Cacao and Golden Cheese as they both also have just a single Epic Costume, but they both got they're costume in 2023 while Hollyberry got her's all the way back in 2021. Plus DC and GC both got they're awakened forms before HB, despite the fact she was released before them. She 1000% deserves a new costume.

And if they do get matching costumes, i wonder what it'd be. Could it be something similar for Truthless Recluse and the Sage of Truth? Where Hollyberry's the slothful one while Eternal Sugar's the passionate?