From 5d9641eaa8a6d6e8b55c3de0678eb2767977d584 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: james Date: Tue, 22 Sep 2020 09:52:17 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Update 'content/topic/(against)-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md' --- .../topic/(against)-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/content/topic/(against)-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md b/content/topic/(against)-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md index 730e9bf..84d7765 100644 --- a/content/topic/(against)-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md +++ b/content/topic/(against)-the-coming-world-of-listening-machines.md @@ -96,7 +96,7 @@ Machine listening is much more than just a new scientific discipline or vein of Machine listening isn't just machinic. -Materially, it entails enormous exploitation of both human and planetary resources: to build, power and maintain the vast infrastructures on which it depends, along with all the microphones and algorithms which are its [most visible manifestations](https://anatomyof.ai/ "Anatomy of an AI System").[^Crawford and Joler] Even these are not so visible however. One of the many political challenges machine listening presents is its tendency to disappear at point of use, even as it indelibly marks the bodies of distant workers and permanently scars ecological systems [Joler interview: 7.54 - 13.44]. +Materially, it entails enormous exploitation of both human and planetary resources: to build, power and maintain the vast infrastructures on which it depends, along with all the microphones and algorithms which are its [most visible manifestations](https://anatomyof.ai/ "Anatomy of an AI System").[^Crawford and Joler] Even these are not so visible however. One of the many political challenges machine listening presents is its tendency to ![disappear](Joler_anatomy) at point of use, even as it indelibly marks the bodies of distant workers and permanently scars ecological systems. Scientifically, machine listening demands enormous volumes of data: exhorted, extracted and appropriated from auditory environments and cultures which, though numerous already, will never be diverse enough. This is why responding to machinic bias with a politics of inclusion is necessarily a trap [HL excerpt: 40.55-44.35]. It means committing to the very system that is oppressing or occluding you: a "techno-politics of perfection."[^Goldenfein]