We must ask in our increasingly AI world:
Who gets to decide what survives the data compression? Who gets to say, “That’s not me”? And most importantly: who gets to build the representation in the first place?
Author: ruthstalkerfirth
PhD(EPFL), public speaker and writer; loves to talk human-computer interaction, AI, storytelling, and yoga, fascinated by how people use technology, and vice-versa.
Smoggie Queen (2): Hairclips and WhatsApp Stickers
I arrived hoping to learn some tips and tricks of the trade that would make me think: Ah, that’s the secret. Perhaps a good, fresh-looking foundation that would make my skin glow, a clever way to dress my petite five-foot frame in colours other than black…
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Day 1047 Duolingo Dutch
Oh my goodness, what can I say? I have absolutely loved learning Dutch and tonight I’m slightly stunned to have reached the end and incredibly sorry that it’s over.
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Style me like a Smoggie Queen
The competition was aimed at women over 40 who felt invisible, so I wrote down the things I knew they would be looking for: grey hair, cancer, new things, and sent them along with the requested full-length picture and a headshot.
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From lost to dazzled (with merch and AI)
Looking back at the months of effort it took me to create my story and looking for an easy way to demonstrate the speed of AI, I fed the 20 key ‘storyboard’ points of my life, just 283 words, into Gemini Notebook LM.
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