Denise Utochkin
Working on ridding us of 'AI'.
Luddite, trolley-problem abolitionist, "pleasure without an identity card".
Divested from white supremacy enough to get fired from Uni of Copenhagen 🙃
We can do this, you guys 💚
They/them btw.
- Reposted by Denise Utochkinok this is the second time I'm seen an apparent reference to that Werner Herzog clip about the insane penguin. what the fuck is going on over there
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinIts so gross for Aranofsky to use models built off the stolen works of artists. Its so gross to displace countless of crew members, the same crews who worked to ensure Aranofsky vision became reality. Its gross to utilize GenAi to portray history as GenAi is always riddled with errors.
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- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThe videos can be watched in any order and are intended for normal people, not experts -- there is so much confusion and misunderstanding out there. (For instance, I'm sending it to my students and non-academic friends). I've also included a very extensive reference list. Please share these widely!
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThis is an important lesson for organizing against them though. There is no incentive to lie when confronting these assholes. Team up. Exploit their numerous weaknesses. You're not in competition with each other. Not even for posting. You already post better than they ever could.
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinI'm assuming the @404media.co interview with Wikimedia CTO was recorded before they announced their new partnerships with Amazon, META, Perplexity and others. The way she giggles when she says "I think we are partners already" is disgusting. She's either naive or toeing a very fine PR line.
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinOne thing I’ll say too is that “just pirate it” is a thought-terminating cliche that doesn’t engage with any of the underlying discussion of fandom as identity and how that has been developed in favor of consolidating companies with bad motives
- Digital databases of academic knowledge had already led to premature consensus-building with everyone citing the same top-5 results on Google Scholar, but I guess if a handful of people who don't value knowledge decided on our behalf that we don't need novelty, we might as well intensify the issue!
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinFascinating article! If AI uses Wikipedia as a kind of Rosetta stone for translations, but it is already poisoned by mistake-riddled machine translations, you get a “linguistic doom loop”. www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1...
- Reposted by Denise Utochkingreatest steam update of all time, because of one unnecessary detail
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinSo how we feelin' about that Epic ecosystem nowadays? We all feel confident that Fortnite is a good spot for kids to hang out?
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- The 'no-AI' mode of DuckDuckGo working about as well as one can expect. (And never you mind the search query, I'm trying to make a gift for a friend.)
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin“Like prime, but with human beings”
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin"What can one brandish today?" - Simulacra and Simulation
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin"Summary" is the most common use case you get from people who are so desperate to present themselves as the reasonable middle ground in the "AI" "debate" and it just makes them look like marks.
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinNon-industry compromised scientists keep saying these models don't become safe, no matter what, but people keep thinking just because the concept of guardrails is mentioned it must work. By definition, it doesn't. This is not something open to discussion, unless you're a paid shill.
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinIt's truly wild to me that this just keeps happening. Coca-Cola runs an AI ad and people overwhelmingly react with disgust. They do it again, and people are disgusted again. Now McDonald's makes an AI ad that's so bad that so many people are furious about it they pull it down. People hate AI slop!
- Already in a few hours we'll be taking a fresh look at a technology more stale than a fossilised loaf of sliced bread (and much less useful if you ask me). Come join us in-person or online as we scratch our heads and maybe even look for lines of flight: portals.icareus.com/en/tiedekulm...
- The critical AI discussion panel in @tiedekulma this Thursday at 5 pm! Excited to introduce our speakers @denise-utochkin.bsky.social from University of Copenhagen Health Complexity Center and @sophiesong.bsky.social from The Distributed AI Research Institute (DAIR). luma.com/wemwroh9
- Reposted by Denise Utochkinthere’s a scene in the new documentary where Elizabeth Taylor is talking about the stigma of AIDS and how she got involved in the movement and it’s fucking everything
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinHey @nature.com, have you got an explanation for how the hell THIS happened? & especially why you accepted a paper with such a bizarre piece of genAI slop in it?! & more to the point, why we should take you seriously at all going forward? www.nature.com/articles/s41...
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin"It is against the TOS to be talked into suicide by our LLM" is possibly the most evil tech bro thing I've ever read
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinIt is _literally_ stolen intellectual labor. Embedded AI observes what you write, erase, revise, edit and save as final to steal HOW you think through a sentence, a problem, a proposal or a decision. Your intellectual labor is taken to teach it to "predict" text or "soften" or "sharpen" tone.
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- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThe point of LLMs aren't even that it will accurately enforce the desired ideological conformity. The stochastic errors and subsequent penalization are the point.
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin"one day, when it's safe, when there's no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it's too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this"
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinWoman Trying To Find Nonpolitical Way To Say Her Cleaner Was Deported theonion.com/woman-trying-to-fin…
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin“Researching and reflecting on the harms of AI is not itself harm reduction. It may even contribute to rationalizing, normalizing, and enabling harm. Critical reflection without appropriate action is thus quintessentially critical washing." -- @marentierra.bsky.social et al, (2025).
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThe good news is that OpenAI and Meta now have more than enough text to make a realistic Jeffery Epstein AI chatbot
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinBruh
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinNot now, carnivorous death ball
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThe reason our environmental laws are bad is because they fail to protect the environment from the endless capitulation of cowards.
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinGermany, your leader is an extremist. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
- Reposted by Denise Utochkinthe future is so goddamn stupid
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- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThis is another example of where generative AI is not user triggered - which means it's fundamentally unboycottable.
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinOnce again:
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinSource: 9to5google.com/2025/10/29/y... *End users* can opt out, and will be able to check in the player whether they are watching a real or upscaled video. But I am very curious, if you could put an exact cost on this decision in terms of kWh/atmospheric CO2, what the total would come to.
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- So the $20,000 humanoid robot housekeeper actually just webcams your house to a random person in a call center with an Xbox controller www.wsj.com/tech/persona... @joannastern.bsky.social
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- Reposted by Denise UtochkinRegarding "far more common than reported here": Left: the Nature News story above, Sept 18th 2025 Right: Wired directly quoting OpenAI, Oct 28, 2025 www.wired.com/story/chatgp...
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThis version of Total Recall sucks.
- Which demonstrably matters little if at all to a society that transitioned from spectacular to hyperreal with so little resistance. We're now morphing into something new: a form of collective sense-making in which the primary type of output is a pastiche of simulacra. Society of model collapse.
- Another day another study showing that "AI assistants" do not work reliably for cognitive tasks. "Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory" www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinA hard truth is that the search for artificial general intelligence as a commercial tool is fundamentally a reproduction of slavery. Not because computers are people or anything so silly, but because of the impetus: To acquire the products of humanity without the need for a human to consent.
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinIf only everyone could have predicted this www.thegamer.com/ea-generativ...
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinChatbots have an impact specifically on the brains of bosses and managers that ought to be subject to an entire new field of social science www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinThis graph says it all: instead of starting to go down, the *annual increase* of atmospheric CO2 is setting new records. We're making climate change worse at a record rate. Turning this around should be our top priority, and it's not. From: www.carbonbrief.org/met-office-a...
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin“The delegation of tasks to “tools & assistants” constitutes a methodological decision (…) Researchers should therefore be required to explain why they are trusting a black box that is neither open nor fair.” — @altibel.bsky.social & @petertarras.bsky.social www.leidenmadtrics.nl/articles/why...
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinWe’ve met with Greta Thunberg and others in the flotilla. They describe hours-long scenes of torture and sexual harassment in Israeli captivity. Experts conclude that they have been subjected to serious crimes – Sweden’s foreign minister believes they have themselves to blame. tinyurl.se/crR
- Reposted by Denise Utochkin“If you share your knowledge outside the scientific community, then you’re already exerting societal influence, according to Judi Mesman. This isn’t problematic for the prestige of science: ‘Pretending to be neutral doesn’t make sense to me.’” www.nwo.nl/en/there-is-...
- Reposted by Denise Utochkinbitch what
- Reposted by Denise UtochkinI am straight-up going to have nightmares about this
