'We need to understand more and rank less' - Rankless is an experimental visualisation data project that explores the impact of universities. It is built on the idea that rankings obscure impact by reducing it to a single dimension rankless.org

The NUCA camera renders its subjects naked and 'aims to provoke and question the current trajectory of generative AI in reproducing body images.' a provocative speculative art project by Mathias Vef and Benedikt Gross nuca.rocks

Submit artworks, pictorials and papers to the IEEE VIS’24 Arts Program. The deadline is June 2. visap.net/2024/
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i'm fascinated by generative AI imperfectly reproducing canonical objects (e.g. the milky way, the mona lisa, dollar bills) x.com/googledeepmind…

📣 New paper ‘Shapes and frictions of synthetic data’ by Dietmar Offenhuber (dietmar offenhuber) discusses a relational and situational model that foregrounds 'the outliers, artifacts, and gaps' in datasets. #syntheticdata# #AI #USCensus #differentialprivacy
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Fun fact: 'The Tragedy Of the Commons' is a hoax created by the white nationalist Garrett Hardin to justify stealing land from colonized people.

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But while a chatbot can't produce truthful and informative articles, it *can* produce *bullshit* - at *unimaginable* scale. Chatbots are the workers that hedge-fund wreckers *dream* of: tireless, uncomplaining, compliant and obedient producers of nonsense on demand.

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“Behind The _______” is an exhibition designed by current MFA students from the Experience Design and Information Design & Data Visualization programs in Northeastern CAMD. It is on display until May 5th in the Center for Design.