Untangled with Charley Johnson

Untangled with Charley Johnson

⚒️ Systems Change

What does it mean to ‘train’ AI anyway?

A survey of how individual datapoints become large, training datasets

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Charley Johnson
Apr 07, 2024
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Hi, it’s Charley, and this is Untangled, a newsletter about technology and power.

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March was busy at Untangled HQ:

  • I analyzed the interventions offered by research papers addressing the anti-democratic state of the internet.

  • I argued that automation is a structural and political problem, not an individualized one, and that power lies with those who …

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