5 papers
Environmental Slow AI: Design Principles for Generative Systems
Vanessa Utz
Generative AI (genAI) systems produce cultural artefacts at scale, but they also reflect embedded cultural values through their design. Once identified, these values become open to…
Responsible Data Stewardship: Generative AI and the Digital Waste Problem
Vanessa Utz
As generative AI systems become widely adopted, they enable unprecedented creation levels of synthetic data across text, images, audio, and video modalities. While research has add…
Digital Overconsumption and Waste: A Closer Look at the Impacts of Generative AI
Vanessa Utz, Steve DiPaola
Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) systems currently contribute negatively to the production of digital waste, via the associated energy consumption and the related CO2 emissi…
Climate Implications of Diffusion-based Generative Visual AI Systems and their Mass Adoption
Vanessa Utz, Steve DiPaola
Climate implications of rapidly developing digital technologies, such as blockchains and the associated crypto mining and NFT minting, have been well documented and their massive G…
Using an AI creativity system to explore how aesthetic experiences are processed along the brains perceptual neural pathways
Vanessa Utz, Steve DiPaola
With the increased sophistication of AI techniques, the application of these systems has been expanding to ever newer fields. Increasingly, these systems are being used in modeling…