Yuan Y. Stevens

If you’re interested in digging deeper — in what regulation, content standards, or civic education might look like — I’d love to connect and explore next steps.

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Three Reasons Why Canadians Should Know About Deepfakes Now | Canadian Institute for the Administration of Justice deepfakes, AI, law, legal training

Back in 2019, I wrote about deepfakes and the dangers of synthetic media — how it could distort reality, fuel misinformation, and make violence feel “real.”

Fast-forward to today: OpenAI’s Sora is generating violent and racist scenes that blur fiction and reality.

What was foresight is now fact.

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Humanoid robots are here, folks.

Do you think they’ll need rights and responsibilities like humans — or perhaps like animals do, which are seen as quasi-humans in some jurisdictions?

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Found a hidden gem in Montréal today — Café Tranquille 😍

Nestled in the heart of Places-des-Arts, this café is airy, spacious, bright. It’s gorgeous.

You can borrow a book from the library or borrow a game to play with pals.

Will definitely be coming back here with friends! 🌿🥰☺️

Digital resurrection: fascination and fear over the rise of the deathbot Ozzy Osbourne appeared as an AI-generated image at a recent Rod Stewart concert, prompting questions about how the ghoulish phenomenon will affect grieving

Folks, we’ve now got AI-generated humans.

I’m especially curious to see how the porn industry — a fore runner in all things digital — will transform as we beam in AI-generated people.

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I know she’s been moderately cancelled but Paper Planes by MIA og poppin off was truly a time to be alive

Plus some shots of a dope experimental furniture and sculpture show in Montreal🐗🐗

This is not obviously related to to AI, but I *really* want to read a Jia Tolentino piece on the fact that:

Sydney Sweeney has a men’s bubble bath product that contains some of the water she herself has bathed in😂

I am lowkey excited for the era of content completely by AI on apps like TikTok;;

I suspect it’ll be cringey at first and then the funniest ones will push the envelope of humour even further

This means that anything that breaks out of the molds of AI-generated factory outputs will be inherently valuable.

For those who value humour, it’ll be a tall order for things to make us laugh.

The absurd—which is hard for machines to tango with—will be a primary source of comedy in the future.

We are becoming one with machines, and nowhere is this more evident than in writing and in creative practice.

As we rely more and more on AI to write, then our writing and outputs will become more streamlined over time.

Like factories—but for our minds.

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BRICS countries may come together and combine efforts to manufacture semi conductors used to train AI super computers.

And they may come together to build a super computer, or a few.

Their use of AI in military (eg drones, brain data) may pave the way for others.

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A black and white cat is sleeping peacefully under a white blanket, cuddling a small black and white cat plushie. The blanket has a illustration of the cat.

Uni :3

Life is great but have you ever bicycled to Toxic by Britney Spears

Today in doggie angels

Some AI policy forecasting.

Robots will need legal protections. Humans will mistreat robots.

Governments will protect our brain data, which can be used to train robots to become more human-like. There’ll be pushback from tech companies.

Generally best to be proactive for things like this 🤝

Stay with the trouble. This is how we end apartheids.

In the words of Lucy Suchman, « Stay with the trouble. »

Listen. Watch. Notice the world as it changes. As we rewrite history, through — fr, now — quantum realities.

Musicians and politicians popping up out of nowhere. Movies. Books. Friends. Events. Past histories.

This is reality now, folks.

Buckle up. It’s been quite a quiet global revolution.

I’m sharing about this theory so we can all be as powerful as each other. Average people deserve to know about this.

I’ve been collectively hallucinating, intermittently, since fall 2023. Some people been doing it their entire lives.

I collectively hallucinated these tiny office houses 👇🏼

We can even collectively hallucinate people.

And there are likely entities or people in control of some of these collectively hallucinated people:

Governments, and other powerful people with the technical skills to do so.

Let’s chat soon! I can’t find you on signal - so weird

The hospital I’ve been staying at after needing to be safe bc I faced retaliation after reporting serious crimes in late May — CHUM in Montreal — has:

- ominous posters telling people to call 911 (in a hospital) in case of (mass) strokes

- a code warning for the “mass reception of burn victims”

Eventually we’ll have humanoid companions made by OpenAI and other co’s, and they’ll likely need to receive legal protection like animals do

Someone of repute told me that the genocide of Gaza is the Petri dish for new surveillance technology. Then I thought of Pegasus

How is no major international outlet also reporting on Alligator Alcatraz and the hurricane that nearly hit it

This is why data privacy is a civil rights issue

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The price of banh mi is a recession indicator - this is bananas

Word :)