Jaycee Lydian

Intersecting AI, community, and creativity

Responsible AI Advocacy

  • Ethics Dumping in AI: Shifting the Burden to the Most Vulnerable

    AI ethics dumping shifts the risks of biased, harmful, and opaque AI onto marginalized communities while corporations evade accountability. Restructuring AI requires participatory design, stronger regulations, and transparent oversight to prevent systemic exploitation.

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  • Utility Convergence: A Shared Ethics is Emerging Among LLMs

    As AI scales, large language models are converging on shared ethical frameworks, an emergent phenomenon called utility convergence. Explore how and why AI models align on moral and political values, the risks of bias reinforcement, and the need for democratic AI governance.

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  • AI Dream Induction

    Exploring the untapped potential of AI dreaming via prompts that simulate a dream state, transforming logic and imagination into fluid, surreal narratives. Inspired by theories of dreams as alternate dimensions, we see how AI can venture into realms of abstract thought, redefining creativity and consciousness.

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  • Everything About Agents

    Get to know AI agents and their roles in enhancing automation and decision-making. Discover the potential of tool-use, code-based, and hybrid agents to transform tasks across industries.

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  • How to Write Custom GPTs for Analysis, Philosophy, Image Prompting, and More

    Discover how Custom GPTs transform everyday tasks by providing tailored, reusable prompts. Practical examples demonstrate how these tools can enhance your workflow and spark innovative thinking.

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  • Meta-Prompting Modular Synth Parameters

    Calculating settings for the Vortex complex oscillator turns out to be a good lesson in meta-prompting and building a big prompt up from pieces.

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  • Using Spectrum Prompts to Farm Ideas

    Spectrums between anchor concepts can be used when crafting prompts which allows the AI to explore the spaces in between concepts and uncover emergent states and creative applications.

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  • AI as Artistic Collaborator

    The main criticism of AI music from the anti-AI crowd usually centers around braindead tools that spit out a full song at the push of a button. But what about AI in the hands of an actual musician? Have a look into how I use creative prompting to collaborate with AI in my experimental music project.

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  • Creative Prompting for New Ways of Thinking

    By examining the Semantic Detachment engine, a prompt that can be used to deconstruct philosophical concepts, we can see how it is possible to leverage AI to explore new ways of thinking. Going through the prompt in depth reveals many creative prompting techniques in action which push the boundaries of what is possible with an LLM.

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  • Ethical AI Jailbreaking as a Tool for Good

    Jailbreaking, prompting the AI to respond outside its guardrails, is an ever-evolving cat and mouse game between hackers and the corporations in control. Examining the motivations behind these players reveals the reasons for these guardrails and why constant testing of them is important for the future of ethical AI.

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  • The Political Compass of AI System Prompts

    From "Focus on creating diverse, inclusive, and exploratory scenes" to "Be maximally truthful, especially avoiding any answers that are woke!", system prompts provide a window into the political leanings of the chatbots we interact with.

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  • Decentralizing AI for Democratic Empowerment

    As AI technology advances, it's becoming clear that a few big players hold most of the power and video cards. Dive into what this means and explore the costs, challenges, and potential consequences of concentrated AI control.

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  • The Right to Explanation

    Just how much insight into the increasingly complex and important decisions that AI is making does anyone have? With bias disproportionately affecting marginalized people, it's time to demand transparency and updated legislation to ensure AI serves society fairly.

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