Baptiste Caramiaux

Happy to share that our recent research will be presented across three papers at ACM #CHI2026. Topics are :
> Artists and a decade of AI innovation
> Sensemaking in algorithmic auditing
> Co-designing movement generation systems

#academicbluesky #HCI #AI

This is the 6th episode in a series where we bring together artists and researchers to discuss the changing role of AI in creative practices and communities, and to explore how we can shape AI development and shift dominant narratives

➡️ More details here: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

Stephanie's work is rooted in local communities, with whom she builds platforms for dialogue about AI and its intersections with race, gender, and power.

🎙️ Join us on 2 Dec 19:00 CET for a #AI, #Art and #Society Salon with Stephanie Dinkins, transdisciplinary artist and professor.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Organised w/ @qveraliao.bsky.social @katecrawford.bsky.social Gonzalo Ramos & Jenny Williams

How can we evaluate GenAI as cultural technology?

#GenAI is cultural & social but most eval lean on technical benchmarks. In a new paper with 30+ researchers we introduce a framework that evaluates GenAI not only on performance, but on meaning

📖 papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

#academicbluesky

Text on an orange background with the title of the Points post,What Happens When People Turn to Chatbots for Therapy? by Briana Vecchione. It includes a quote from the brief: "Chatbots are reshaping not only how people seek help, but how they define it."

Our team’s research on how people interact with mental health chatbots is more about the people than the bots, researcher @briana-v.bsky.social‬ writes. datasociety.net/points/what-...

📣 Tomorrow! Join us for the next AI & Society Salon – June 11 at 5 PM CET.

Marco Donnarumma brings performance art and movement research into strange encounters with sound, light, robotics and AI.

🗓️ June 11, 17h00 CET
➡️ Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

#CultureAndTech #AI #ArtAndTech

Organized with @qveraliao.bsky.social, @katecrawford.bsky.social, jenny williams, and gonzalo ramos

Watch/Read previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

♦️ Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 11 June 17:00 CET for a Salon with Marco Donnarumma, performance artist and researcher.

We will discuss human body, tech and power.

Register: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

AI Doesn’t Paint: Why We Cannot Separate Art from the Artist | TechPolicy.Press Tech Policy Press is a nonprofit media and community venture intended to provoke new ideas, debate and discussion at the intersection of technology and democracy. We publish opinion and analysis.

Why we cannot separate Art from the Artist?
in @techpolicypress.bsky.social

www.techpolicy.press/ai-doesnt-pa...

Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ Duolingo replaced its contract workers with AI. Now its eyes are set on schools.

Sure, duolingo showed us just how well we can speak a foreign language using it.
fortune.com/2025/05/20/d...

How Authors are Thinking About AI (Survey of 1,200+ Authors) We surveyed more than 1,200 authors to learn how they're thinking about generative AI as it relates to their work. Here's what they had to say.

Large survey conducted by Bookbub on how authors view generative AI. It shows that authors are divided on its use and the importance of ethical concerns among authors who don't use it. insights.bookbub.com/how-authors-...

#AI #GenAI #Writing #CreativeIndustry

Attending #CHI2025?
📆 Go to see Lenny presenting this work: programs.sigchi.org/chi/2025/pro...

Through interviews with documentary photographers, it reveals enthusiasm for AI’s ability to support community-driven storytelling, alongside concerns about authenticity, trust, and the risk of misrepresentation.

This study examines the emerging role of generative AI in documentary photography, highlighting both its creative potential and ethical challenges.

📢 Excited to share our #CHI2025 paper "Generative AI in Documentary Photography: Exploring Opportunities and Challenges for Visual Storytelling" by Lenny Martinez, Sarah Fdili Alaoui and myself.

➡️ Pre-print: hal.science/hal-04982451...

bisig daniel - dbisig / AIToolbox · GitLab Quellcode- und Projektverwaltung mit GitLab | Source code and project management using GitLab

AI Toolbox for Performing Arts, by Daniel Bisig: https://
gitlab.zhdk.ch/dbisig/aitoolbox
#AI #PerformingArts #Creativity

Happening today!

🚨 Event Update: New Date! 🚨
Our online Salon, a dialogue with @carolinesinders.bsky.social on #AI & #Society, has been postponed and will now take place on March 5, 6pm CET.

Info, registration, Zoom link: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Previous salons: regainingpoweroverai.org/docs/salons/

📢 This is happening tomorrow! Zoom link via registration: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...
#AI #Art #Society

An image of Aaron Swartz with the following text: "Meta illegally downloaded 80+ TB of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models. In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

My heart ached when I was reminded that Aaron Swartz was prosecuted for trying to make academic knowledge more accessible to the public. Meta, meanwhile, is doing it for their own bottom line. I'm going to guess that no one at Meta will be looking at spending 35 years in jail for this.

The AI Summit ends in rupture. AI accelerationists want pure expansion—more capital, energy, private infrastructure, no guard rails. Public interest camp supports labor, sustainability, shared data. safety, and oversight. The gap never looked wider. AI is in its empire era.

Want to know more about previous salons and the project in general ? 🌍 regainingpoweroverai.org

I'm happy to be organizing this alongside my collaborators at Microsoft Research: Jenny Williams, Gonzalo Ramos, @katecrawford.bsky.social, and @qveraliao.bsky.social.

This event is supported by ISIR - Institut des Systèmes Intelligents et de Robotique, Sorbonne Université, CNRS, MSFT Research.

We're hearing a lot about AI at the moment but little about the agency that people have over these technologies.

This is the 4th episode of a series of salons where we discuss how we can shape AI and challenge dominant narratives through artistic practice.

Flyer of the salon "regaining power over AI", 4th episode with Carolien Sinders

Our next #AI & #Society Salon is soon 🎙️ Join us on 18 February 18:00pm CET for a Salon with @carolinesinders.bsky.social, artist and researcher.

Register here: www.eventbrite.com/e/regaining-...

Finally, we analyze the implicit narratives and impacts on the creative and artistic sectors.

Read the full article 🌍 arxiv.org/abs/2502.03940

We show that these narratives conveyed values about creative work, in particular:
🔹 automation over manual work
🔹 efficiency over exploration
🔹 concept over execution
🔹 artifact over process
🔹 short-term over long-term skills

AI is not neutral. AI narratives have long carried stereotypes and political agendas. It comes with stories, values, and perspectives that influence how we perceive artistic work.

➡️ Little research has examined how these narratives operate in the creative and artistic sectors.

As #AI gains a growing space in creation and art, how are the public discourses on AI in the arts shaping creative work?

It what we investigate in a new paper with @katecrawford.bsky.social , @qveraliao.bsky.social, Gonzalo Ramos and Jenny Williams : arxiv.org/abs/2502.03940