The treachery of images in the age of AI - https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/59695/1/the-treachery-of-images-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-luke-nugent #semiotics #artificialintelligence #subculture

What makes a semiotician tick? SEMIOVOX’s Josh Glenn has invited his fellow practitioners in the field of commercial semiotics, from around the world, to answer a few revealing questions. https://www.semiovox.com/articles/2023/04/20/tim-stock/

the evolution of "open carry" as a cultural signifier. you can wear your heart on your sleeve or your dick on your lapel. #language #semiotics #gender #insecurity

watching an EMT standby to murder has roots in our cultural history. The film Cool Hand Luke was a window into the Jim Crow South at the peak of the civil rights movement in 1967. Those residual codes of power and policing seep into training models and a language of policing today. The system is coded in the residual language of other-ism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WUyZXhLHMk

some people are stunned at the possible hyperbole of "defund the police" when it is a natural cultural response to the weaponization of language like the SCORPION unit - a systemic framework for intimidating communities of color. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/tyre-nichols-shooting-scorpion-unit-explained.html #language #semiotics #culture

I have been experimenting with simple ways to introduce ChatGPT into design strategy learning frameworks...the responses ChatGPT provided are flawed. But their limits challenge students to think of how to expand the datasets for these models and consider the results in the context of expanding discourse analysis. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timstock_designthinking-education-chatgpt-activity-7024807028116090880-JFta?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Chatting in Tongues: a critical need for language models "We should immediately be seeing AI as tools we need to sharpen, tools that help push our human capacities toward real innovation." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatting-tongues-critical-need-language-models-scenariodna/?trackingId=HIXohP2j9O44%2B5JXQsXjPg%3D%3D

Conjuring Voices to Overcome Bias and Push Innovation https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conjuring-voices-overcome-bias-push-innovation-scenariodna/?trackingId=%2Bx9O1g3yRA2aRhhd3eAmng%3D%3D #culturemapping #labapproach #archetypes

Young Chinese ‘can’t wrap head around starting a family’ as burdens pile up

https://www.scmp.com/economy/china-economy/article/3204140/young-chinese-put-kids-marriage-back-burner-record-rate-cost-pressures-and-covid-overwhelm

What People Eat Around the World Puts Climate, Food Security At Risk https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2022-global-diet-homogeneous-food-security-risk/?ai=eyJpc1N1YnNjcmliZWQiOnRydWUsImFydGljbGVSZWFkIjpmYWxzZSwiYXJ0aWNsZUNvdW50IjowLCJ3YWxsSGVpZ2h0IjoxfQ==

Cultural Research Requires a Lab https://lnkd.in/eX2mb7i4

Culture Mapping Better Futures - an online talk today with RnDAO. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timstock_culture-mapping-better-futures-activity-7009580265530400769-ox3c?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Where are we in terms of protest and activism? The latest surge in art as protest is calling out two points of view. One view posits that activists understand the grip certain works have on the collective imagination. The other view is concerned that the message is losing power as Western art becomes more accessible. Will we stop listening? #archetypes #activism #culture https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7008543101719842816

A reminder that English "is just one of the roughly 7000 languages spoken or signed in the world" and that studies in #CognitiveLinguistics have been biased because of this.

Grateful to a cognitive linguistics colleague for sharing this as these kinds of issues generally tend to be raised by socio-linguists & applied-linguists.

What linguistic biases are being built into #GPT+ #MachineLearning?

#AppliedLinguistics #tleap #SocioLinguistics #ArtificialIntelligence #AcWri
https://www.cell.com/trends/cognitive-sciences/fulltext/S1364-6613(22)00236-4?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS1364661322002364%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

@serenissimaj such an important point. we need a lab approach to train these models with decentralized, transparent and diverse expertise to evolve their relevance as human augmentation, not replacement.

Culture is a system of signifiers, traits, behaviors, and subcultures. Enrollment is open for our January Culture Mapping workshops. #workshops #onlineclasses #designeducation #speculativedesign https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timstock_culture-mapping-workshop-teaser-activity-7005224199707361280-wDeT?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Did Someone With a Trust Fund Paint This? "Works in the exhibition also direct viewers’ attention to the systems through which artists earn money, like grants." https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/02/arts/design/class-issues-exhibit-berlin.html?action=click&algo=bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-30_impression_cut_3_filter_new_arm_5_1&alpha=0.05&block=more_in_recirc&fellback=false&imp_id=552370561&impression_id=06c42310-7697-11ed-ad68-350ae993a704&index=0&pgtype=Article&pool=more_in_pools%2Fart%26design&region=footer&req_id=225273681&surface=eos-more-in&variant=0_bandit-all-surfaces-time-cutoff-30_impression_cut_3_filter_new_arm_5_1

any discussion about the metaverse requires understanding its linguistic and cultural DNA. the metaverse is a story system rooted in an evolution of subcultures. and evolution from cyberpunk systems awareness to cypherpunk systems activism to cryptopunk systems nihilism.

Tuning the Prompt “the words engine and ingenious are derived from the same Latin root, ingenerare, which means “to create.” This is one thing when we are haphazardly throwing prompts at Midjourney. There, it’s okay to have others run with your prompt and see where it goes. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/tuning-prompt-scenariodna/?trackingId=QX5siOa%2FKhqLnXDdKtFeuQ%3D%3D