Comments by 2025 Carter Barber Most recent public comments by 2025 Carter Barber https://writingpartners.net/users/345 Shows that artificial intelligence models don't just reinforce the socioeconomic trends of reality, they exaggerate them. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5923?scroll_to=39859 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5923?scroll_to=39859 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:06:12 -0500 I did not know there was conversation surrounding using it for automatic criminal sketching. That seems incredibly unreliable, as Abeba Birhane says. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5923?scroll_to=39858 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5923?scroll_to=39858 Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:04:31 -0500 Using the meta-analysis, I found out that the main topic in the research (as of February 13, 2024) is the problem of bias. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5923?scroll_to=39856 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5923?scroll_to=39856 This is a broad term, but it boils down to artificial intelligence displaying leanings that may lead to things such as racism, sexism, and marginalization. This article is about how that manifests in text-to-image models. I see it as sort of a propagation of existing social problems. Fri, 07 Mar 2025 13:03:56 -0500 The categorization really helps, but what we are here for is for the individualized issues mostly, with the sources provided too. This will be something I'll be combing through. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39180 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39180 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:27:59 -0500 Very relevant! Because, well, this is a school assignment! Lots of other opinion sources on this, whether it's a good or bad thing is up to debate. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39178 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39178 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:26:19 -0500 This part sort of confuses me as to what it is referring to. There's a lot of overlap between different topics, of course. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39177 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39177 Seems a bit more technical when it gets into the nitty gritty, but the question is whether people are qualified to provide guidelines for this artificial intelligence. Again, a more technical one, so I may not explore this as much unless it clicks into place. Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:25:23 -0500 Very interesting how they have actual studies on this rather than just opinionated argument pieces (the ones I have found so far.) Will absolutely check these out. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39169 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39169 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 21:03:14 -0500 This shows us the number of sources they found on the topic, and the amount they ended up analyzing: 179 research sources. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39099 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=39099 Wed, 05 Mar 2025 10:31:32 -0500 "Hallucinations" is another way to say false or misleading information generated by LLM models. I have a lot of personal experience with this, especially with the new integrated google AI search result summary they have now. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38959 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38959 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:57:43 -0500 Summary! https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38958 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38958 This source is incredibly, incredibly useful, and I wish I had found it out sooner. It is a meta-analysis that summarizes the main concerns surrounding the ethics of generative AI, and also offers links to other research papers that talk about each of these subjects. The main focal point of the article is a bar graph, quickly and easily showing me what the main concerns are in academic spaces over artificial intelligence. This will give me a jumping off point to research further. On the actual article page, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11023-024-09694-w, the blue text links to citations of other works. Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:18:15 -0500 This is incredibly useful as a gauge of what the main ethical issues surrounding generative AI is. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38957 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38957 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:51:43 -0500 Image did not save here correctly, this is the actual image. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38956 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5819?scroll_to=38956 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 12:51:43 -0500 It's nice they have a little summary up here. Will of course have to read more than just this. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5783?scroll_to=38819 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5783?scroll_to=38819 Tue, 04 Mar 2025 11:24:53 -0500 Though it says it is a survey of teachers AND students in the caption, despite saying it is only a teacher survey in the image. Maybe that affected the results? https://writingpartners.net/documents/5783?scroll_to=38505 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5783?scroll_to=38505 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:08:55 -0500 This survey shows us that ChatGPT use in the classrooms is a very divisive topic among teachers https://writingpartners.net/documents/5783?scroll_to=38504 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5783?scroll_to=38504 Mon, 03 Mar 2025 11:08:55 -0500 Summary https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38342 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38342 Here’s a very interesting blog owned by photographer Craig Boehman I found while trying to look for dissenting opinions. Will this source be good to reference while looking for actual solutions? Probably not, to be honest? I definitely am writing from a biased perspective, but also this source is a former photographer’s blog as opposed to a real article or research paper. It makes some very interesting points, some of which I think are more valid than others. I should definitely try to expand the scope of this topic to also involve things like ChatGPT. But also maybe I need to narrow down to a singular question, as this is a problems and solutions essay. Wed, 04 Feb 2026 17:56:14 -0500 Also a lot of people, to be honest, just don't like how it looks. Even though it can do different styles, it is a homogenizing force, and has certain traits across works that feel, fittingly, very artificial. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38292 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38292 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:56:47 -0500 though i do feel like this is more an argument in that the artist barely has any input besides the elements they choose to include and a vague indication of style. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38288 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38288 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:55:51 -0500 In my attempt to look for dissenting opinions, I found this very interesting blog. It makes some points! Ii suppose! https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38284 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38284 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:54:16 -0500 This is an argument of semantics. When most people talk about AI nowadays, they talk about the new technologies like ChatGPT exciting the industry. More specifically, they'd be against "generative AI." https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38280 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38280 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:52:10 -0500 Doesn't seem very representative of the reasons people are actually concerned about it, which are the massive amounts of energy used and the sampling of art from across the Internet. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38279 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38279 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:56:47 -0500 this soul argument is a very interesting one, and one I probably won't make in the essay because it is very subjective and philosophical and all that. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38278 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38278 Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:55:51 -0500 A big point this article makes is that the fear over AI art is comparable to the fear over photography. I personally don't think this is a very good point. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38275 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5696?scroll_to=38275 For one, photography does something that could never be done before by human hands - it could capture a moment, perfectly and now nearly instantly. It serves an incredibly important purpose besides that, of documentation. Paintings could still be done of more abstract or surreal subjects detached of the real world. There's also somewhat an art to photography, of course. Generating art doesn't really do anything a normal human artist couldn't do already with a camera or drawing tools. It saves time and takes less skill. Fri, 28 Feb 2025 12:44:46 -0500 article summary: https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37356 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37356 The article in question is from the United Nations, and takes a somewhat neutral stance on the issue of artificial intelligence. It speaks to the controversies surrounding the technology, with some being angered that it is ripping directly from their art or writing, and others being glad it can be used as a tool to help them. The author expresses concern over the copyright issues and implications of the scraping of the internet for data. They have, however, “been advocating for text-data mining (TDM) exceptions under our copyright laws.” This article doesn’t have many answers, but it asks a lot of questions, and points to the scale of the issue being on the international level. Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:19:05 -0500 important https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37349 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37349 Fri, 21 Feb 2025 13:17:04 -0500 I think allowing copyright law violation for big tech companies while still holding them up for individual creators who aren't using AI is really weird. I should look into this more. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37132 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37132 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:40:43 -0500 There is legal action and cases we can look at. Good for establishing scope. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37130 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37130 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:33:56 -0500 I wonder how artists use it to assist their work. Personally, I mostly just use references for aid. Maybe for design ideas? https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37129 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37129 Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:33:36 -0500 These models scraping the entire Internet for data has proven to be a problem. The new google search AI, from my own experience, is wildly inaccurate in some cases and even contradictory. https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37128 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37128 Sometimes it sources such reliable websites as Reddit for answers. Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:31:03 -0500 Article is from the United Nations Committee of Trade and Development (UNCTAD) https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37127 https://writingpartners.net/documents/5148?scroll_to=37127 https://unctad.org/es/isar/news/cstd-dialogue-anthony-wong neutral summary i think Wed, 19 Feb 2025 12:18:28 -0500 Orwell predicts that doublespeak will permeate life, and that it would make people such as Julia dull to the actual truth, even if they knew the doublespeak was sort of rubbish. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36240 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36240 I feel like today there's a lot of usage of doublespeak in our media, and a lot of people fall into patterns of using it. A simple example is saying you are going to fight a war for the purpose of peace. Orwell also predicts a deniability of objective reality, but while he mostly meant through government censorship, in our modern society its that combined with a massive flood of information that is so numerous and often contradictory that we do not know what to think. https://www2.latech.edu/~bmagee/303/packet/77--jargon.htm Some examples of double speak that are used today. Thu, 06 Feb 2025 12:27:49 -0500 the less understanding people have, the more easy it is for them to be controlled. weirdly enough, the most indifferent ones are perhaps the most affected. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36033 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36033 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:40:28 -0500 Julia thinks that the government is lying to them about the wars and resistance in order to stir up false aggression and hate to unite the people under Big Brother, and to act as a front. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36030 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36030 She is then convinced otherwise, of the false reality the Party imposes. Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:45:32 -0500 a song was made to rile people up during hate week known as the hate song. they are united by this. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36017 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36017 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:31:26 -0500 Syme was completely erased in every way, and barely anyone really noticed. This was just the reality they accepted. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36007 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4012?scroll_to=36007 Tue, 04 Feb 2025 12:27:00 -0500 interesting idea and conclusion but wow this art is not good https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32296 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32296 Tue, 14 Jan 2025 10:12:37 -0500 The Hate is an incredibly interesting idea commenting on political polarization and propaganda. It mirrors how politicians often get more out of inciting hate, whether in general or towards a group, than anything else. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32270 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32270 It becomes even more interesting due to events later in the book, which I will not spoil. Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:52:37 -0500 In the effort of trying to summarize these war films, his writing becomes completely ineligible. Why is this? https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32266 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32266 Well, first off, the war films clearly have a lot of details he wants to note. Second off, he may be writing very fast due to panic. And thirdly, earlier in the book he states that people in general don't really write, they speak into machines. So maybe he doesn't have practice with that. Additionally, his hand starts to cramp from the speed of his writing. Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:50:26 -0500 I believe the party purposely does not let citizens know the year in order to isolate them from a concept of history before the Party, as well as just to confuse them in general. https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32262 https://writingpartners.net/documents/4009?scroll_to=32262 The Party has complete control over basically everything, so they would be able to make sure that the calendar year was effectively removed. Tue, 14 Jan 2025 09:47:23 -0500 Source tells a lot about the potential historical reasons for the air quality in the Wasatch Valley being so poor. Also gives the experience of some of the residents who live in and near Salt Lake City. https://writingpartners.net/documents/3769?scroll_to=27718 https://writingpartners.net/documents/3769?scroll_to=27718 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 12:04:09 -0500 This gives me a really interesting idea of how historically industrial spots have been placed and how they affect pollution in the valley negatively. https://writingpartners.net/documents/3769?scroll_to=27711 https://writingpartners.net/documents/3769?scroll_to=27711 Tue, 10 Dec 2024 11:58:06 -0500 Why are they doing this weird countdown thing with facts? I guess it's helpful for some of that sweet, sweet context. But tell me, what's going on right now? https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18557 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18557 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:52:50 -0500 I think actual election coverage is on a break right now. But hey, stocks are up! https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18556 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18556 Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:50:03 -0500 Commentary has shifted over to elections for either the national or state senate. In my opinion, the most important people you need to vote for if you want to see change is on a more local level, so focusing on that a bit would be welcome. https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18555 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18555 Catholic Social Teaching teaches us the further removed a governing body is from someone else's situation, the less power they should have to dictate what should help with said situation. This can apply to a multitude of things, such as levels of government or even aid in developing nations. You always see these inventions that seem like they are going to do a lot for developing populations, but the people who made them are usually far removed from the context of actually living there that they miss a lot of key details. You had these people in the 80's, for example, trying to teach kids in poor African villages how to code when they had no use for that knowledge. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:48:11 -0500 Caster is arguing about the black voting population, and how it's been argued that "Kamala is failing black men." Black men are, the caster says, a very small member of the majority, and we should really be paying attention to the white women. https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18554 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18554 I don't have much context for this because I'm sort of skipping ahead large chunks of time while pausing these, but alright? Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:42:22 -0500 "No matter who wins, half of the country will be upset." https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18552 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18552 Insightful commentary. Would have never guessed. Seriously though, I keep hearing this. Just because half the country doesn't vote for you doesn't mean you have to hate half the country. Weird argument I've heard elsewhere. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:40:03 -0500 So yeah, I remember seeing this while scrolling through the news. The Republican in charge of counting voters in Pennsylvania said that the voting is legitimate despite claims by Trump on his own social media. https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18551 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18551 Very interesting to hear this, I already knew the Republican Party was decently divided though. Seems to call party bias into question when counting votes, but who knows? Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:31:14 -0500 Nancy talks about record voter turnout from minority populations. Maybe she's making the point that they feel more threatened than ever by the opposing side (likely Trump in this case) or more motivated by the incentive for change. https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18550 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18550 Trump has infamously spewed anti-immigration rhetoric that is arguably racist in nature. This may leave some minority populations feeling threatened, and has already lead to consequences in Springfield, Ohio. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:29:10 -0500 Speaking is Nancy Pelosi, talking about Trump saying that he will "protect the safety of women, whether they like it or not." Nancy seems to think that this opinion he has is harmful. https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18549 https://writingpartners.net/documents/2862?scroll_to=18549 This could be about abortion rights ,but I do not really have context unfortunately. It's definitely about health. Coverage seems to be agreeing with leftist views. Tue, 05 Nov 2024 18:26:32 -0500 the talks around israel and palestine/gaza is riddled with this sort of thing orwell was talking about, because it's something that politicians would want to try and cushion the reality of. https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3413 https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3413 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:07:57 -0400 to be honest it's hard to recognize any euphemisms if they are in use when the person is being relatively sincere. she seems passionate in being against Trump, so her language is pretty blunt. https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3408 https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3408 Tue, 10 Sep 2024 13:02:10 -0400 Not sure if this is at this exact timestamp or even in the video, but I know Kamala portrays herself as a "tough on crime" prosecutor, which is absolutely a sort of tired phrase at this point. https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3388 https://writingpartners.net/documents/772?scroll_to=3388 It means a whole lot of things depending on who you ask. It either means you're unjustly jailing people or justly keeping bad people away. Tue, 10 Sep 2024 12:57:47 -0400