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McCarthy crowdsourced live coaching for her blind dates via Mechanical Turk
“I went on a series of blind dates with people that I met on the internet, and then I sort of discreetly streamed the Video of the date to the web. And then I paid people through the service called Amazon Mechanical Turk, small amounts of money to watch the dat…”
McCarthy: Facebook 2014 Study Proved News Feed Content Influences User Moods
“Facebook is like, did this study about mood manipulation where they were showing people either positive or more negative content, and then showing that this would cause the person themselves to make more positive or negative posts with the conclusion that they…”
Emotional labor is harder to automate than complex tasks like driving
“We like to think that, like, the things that get automated are the easy things, and the things that don't are the ones that require more education, or training, or higher level skills, but actually I think it's, it divides more, like, the more human, sort of, …”
McCarthy: Open source has worse diversity than the broader tech industry
“And not just tech, but, like, open source is even worse, like in terms of, like, the gender breakdown or minorities that are involved”
p5.js intentionally trades off code elegance so non-experts can contribute
“So taking some trade-offs in the code, like under the hood to make it easier for people that are not like expert developers to still be contributors to that code base. And so adding a lot more commenting in there and just doing things in slightly less Sort of …”
McCarthy: Users Have Grown Accustomed to Algorithmic Mood Manipulation
“Cause I think now people are so used to that idea. Like, of course they're manipulating my mood. Of course. You know, they're filtering out certain things or targeting me.”
McCarthy: Users remember when algorithmic tools work and forget failures
“So it's like we remember these moments where it works for us, and we forget more often the times where it just doesn't work.”
Consensus pricing makes the traditional art market hostile to digital art
“I think part of the difficulty comes out of just, like, the market around buying and selling art is very conservative, because you're agreeing that this particular object has this value that, you know, and it's all kind of consensus-based, so there, it's very …”
McCarthy: Art world must adapt commercial models as artists adopt technology
“Every artist is starting to use technology now, like, seeing these, you know, I teach in a program that uses technology, but seeing the grad students in fine arts, like, they're all, like, making GIFs, and using computers, and using, like, three D software, so…”
McCarthy monitors participants' home cameras to act as a human Amazon Alexa
“I'm trying to become
like Amazon Alexa.
So, but I'm making a service, it's called Lauren.
and so the idea is that I will come into your home and set up all these devices and cameras
and then I'll watch you and, ah, you know, control your home for you and tr…”
McCarthy: Humor creates reflective spaces for tech critique without lecturing
“I find humor like a way to do that, because, you know, you laugh, and then you kind of, there's always some truth to every joke and some people it's less like, let me lecture you about this thing we should all think about, and we're like, here's something ridi…”
McCarthy: Livestreamed browsing social media of 1,000 backers for art project
“So I asked them for all their social media handles that they wanted to give, and then for all, there were like a thousand backers total. I spent five minutes looking through all their social media, and so I set up this system where I'd just like queue them up,…”
McCarthy met her husband when he participated in her livestreamed dating project
“I actually met my husband through one of these projects which is, I was, when I was doing the Social Turkus thing, he was actually happened to be one of the people watching and giving advice on, like, the last date And then like wrote to me afterwards and I wa…”