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Peripheric Institute studies what AI embeddings erase
A nonprofit research institute examines how generative AI’s embedding spaces affect cultural knowledge and surrounding ecosystems.
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- The institute says more than 90% of the world’s knowledge is encoded as outliers in training data.
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The institute describes its first challenge as identifying what models treat as noise and outliers, and working with Global South communities to make that knowledge available as computational structure. It also says more than 90% of the world’s knowledge is encoded as outliers; the homepage links Anomaly and Unpattern as active projects, while “Anatomy of an embedding space” is marked “Coming soon.”
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