Joseph Wilk

CripShip: A revolt against #AI, where #Disability saves society from big tech: art.josephwilk.net/projects/cri... A tabletop roleplaying game where play teaches breaking LLMs in the real world. Inspired by disabled people destroying systems of power & building new worlds from disabled imagination.

Killer Crips 3000 A TTRPG about spoons, rest & disabled rage. Fight the horrors of ableism, imagine a disabled utopia and arm yourselves with artefacts from disabled historical figures. art.josephwilk.net/projects/kil... Collab: linktr.ee/disabilityark Art: lollalette.hotglue.me #Disability #ttrpg

All of this coverage of AI Doomerism making you anxious? It's nonsense and you can go back to your more pressing concerns. If you want to learn more: buttondown.com/maiht3k/arch...

"Detecting signs of AI Writing" from Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikiped...

Interview on "CripShip: Disability Saves Society from BigTech". I finally found the correct expression for AI and LLMs (bleh). CripShip has been running for 3 months at FACT as part of “CAN MEEPLE ESCAPE THE NEUROPHORIA?” exhibition curated by Milia Xin Bi. Video by FACT: www.fact.co.uk

Online playtest of TTRPG "Killer Crips 3000" A game of Disabled Rage using the "Eat The Reich" system. Set in a fantasy world where disabled people fought & won a war against an ableist regime but something ripped open the seams of reality leaking horrors. www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/workshop-t...

Talk about my artwork Wrongmove: The London rental market, where its easier to find a home with chandeliers & marble floors than step free access. Tech replicating inequality, failure of legislation & capital's disdain for access. Fri 6th March - Bristol & online www.watershed.co.uk/studio/event...

A handy tool for investigating various open pretraining datasets of LLMs without having to manage TB of storage space and it's quick: infini-gram.io

Extracting books from production language models: arxiv.org/pdf/2601.026...

"we don’t merely use technologies; we participate in them. With tools, we retain agency—we can choose when and how to use them. With technologies, the choice is subtler: they remake the conditions of choice itself" [Peter Hershock]

I don’t want Palantir in our NHS. notopalantir.goodlawproject.org/email-to-tar...

Resisting GenAI and BigTech in higher education: Multiple scholar-activists talk about resistance: tubedu.org/w/teHCy6pkiK...

My speaker notes & slides from today's panel on 'Resisting GenAI & Big Tech in Higher Education', co-organised with the Climate Justice Universities Union (CJUU). The full recording, slides and resources will be available soon via the CJUU site. danmcquillan.org/resisting_ge...

An odd proposal: "llms.txt" web standard using plain text summaries of webpages to fix that LLMs are really bad at searching web pages. What happened to that thing we used previously to search the internet? That seemed to do a pretty good job of searching text. llmstxt.org

Slop Evader: Search the internet before AI. By @tega.bsky.social tegabrain.com/Slop-Evader

Explicitly opting out of MLCommons Safety benchmark (ailuminate.mlcommons.org/benchmarks/g...) for LLMs seems like a pretty big regulator red flag 🙈 * xAI - Grok-3-Preview * Tencent - Hunyuan-TurboS * NVIDIA - Llama 3.3 49b Knowing LLMs scores on Child Sexual Exploitation is clearly for public good

Is there any evidence or research on datacentres having economic benefits? Specifically for AI they appear like giant funnels flowing capital to US companies, forming irreversible dependencies on tax shy BigTech while destroying workers jobs and rights.

As Microsoft’s emissions jump 30% Microsoft’s CEO says AIs intense energy usage is worth it for the “potential benefits” in healthcare, public services, and business productivity. Also for picking his outfit. Imaginary benefits bought with real harms.

I will be in Linz all week for Ars Electronica. Very happy to meet and chat, always interested in new collaborations. Most of my upcoming work is around resisting AI, corrupting LLMs, disabled fantasy and TTRPGs/games as forms of advocacy & resistance

The most concrete action you can take in Resisting AI is protesting the building of new data centres. The harm is clear “The Greater London Authority has told developers that new housing projects in West London could be banned till 2035, because data centers have taken all the electricity capacity.”

Accidentally came across the DuckDuckGo easter egg when you search for "hydra". I miss the silly internet.

I would say many Role-play games approach disability solely as an accessibility issue and hence try to erase disability rather than embrace it as a culture and identity in game. Accessibility is good, but even if I can access your game, I’m still a disabled person unable to play a disabled fantasy

Well, well, well, responsible AI you say? Google has been found to under-report its emissions. Since 2019 their emission have risen 1,515%! And when was the biggest jump? Why in the most recent year of course because of AI. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

UK government spending at least $1.2B for 12 F-35A jets while in the same breath attempting to push disability people into poverty. The current w̶e̶l̶f̶a̶r̶e̶ military system is "simply unsustainable".

Q&A on AI and Disability - sharing the notes I made for an interview, in which I was trying to challenge the disability-washing of AI. danmcquillan.org/ai_disabilty...

It was a joy speaking directly to creators putting so much love and hard work into tabletop role-playing games at #UKGE. Humans designing, writing & drawing and getting paid for their awesome work.

We need more energy for AI so we can use AI to deal with damage of more energy.💀🔁 institute.global/insights/cli... "Energy demand fuelled by economic development, energy consumption is rising to support expanding AI systems" "We must use AI and other innovations to decarbonise smarter and faster"

We cannot tax US companies to compensate the creators of the content they consumed in training, so we tax UK consumers of the internet because it avoids optics of taxing tech, they cannot escape it & the internet is generative AI. 🦇💩 from Tony Blair Institute. institute.global/insights/tec...

Thinking on what LLMs erase. Layout & whitespace, emptiness in text is less valued than letters and words. I cannot find an LLM that can correctly generate the layout of Lewis Carroll's Mouse tale poem. The whitespace is the most important part of the poem but an LLM can only value the words.

Programming is Forgetting: Toward a New Hacker Ethic by Allison Parrish. opentranscripts.org/transcript/p...

People’s Tech For People’s Power. A guide to digital self defense & empowerment by Michael Kwet: papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers....

How feasible it is to poison the training data of commercial LLMs? An effective form of resistance to #AI or just an expression of dissent? art.josephwilk.net/words/poison...

Waiting for something to fill the emptiness inside youtu.be/AhT0q3611Aw?...

UKs "AI Safety Institute" becomes the "AI Security Institute" because... * AI cannot be done safely? * Sellout to Anthropic: joint Memorandum of Understanding signed with the UK Gov? * Peter Thiel's *cannot be released* discussions with Britain's investment minister? * NHS contracts with Palantir?

print("Why do Disabled... [Microsoft CoPilot] people have to be so loud?") *sigh* Maybe it's the systemic inequality.

Circling. #art