Data Prior to Language
If the author is dead, why isn't the LLM?
Dance Like You Don't Have a Body
When Disembodied Systems Want You to Move In my early 30s I came to realize I had lived through severe bouts of depersonalization growing up. As a child and a teenager, I never felt that my body was mine. I somehow never knew or trusted what my body looked like.
It's Interesting Because
On NotebookLM, Fauxthority & Science Fiction 💡Design is storytelling meant to orient people to strange new tech by anchoring them in familiar terms. In that sense, it is a kind of science fiction. Whenever I talk positively about Gen AI, it means going very narrow, at the exclusion of a
Things I Did in 2024
Writing, Talks & Miscellanea A collection of writing, art and sounds I've worked on this year. Writing I've written quite a few pieces for Tech Policy Press this year. The Original Sin of Generative AI Should images of child abuse circulated online be commercialized? If we
Things I Read in 2024
A Partial List of Writing on Generative AI There has been some great critical writing about Generative AI this year. This is a long post with many quotations that tries to give a snapshot of what people – or at least I – was thinking about in 2024. I've broken
Slop Infrastructures 5 & 6
AI Populism and Slop as Symptom 💡This week was an experiment in multi-part publishing. Slop Infrastructures was shared in three parts, this is the third. You can read part one and two here, and parts three and four here. PART FIVE SPARKLE WITHOUT LIFTING A FINGER "Now, I must
Slop Infrastructures 3 & 4
Weaponized Slop If the purpose of a system is what it does, then the purpose of AI infrastructure is the production of AI slop. 💡This week, I'm trying something new. I'll be e-mailing smaller sections of a single piece, Slop Infrastructures, each day. This includes part
Slop Infrastructures 1 & 2
"Maybe the Human Part of Human Connection is Overstated." 💡This week, I'm trying something new. Starting today, and ending on Tuesday, I'll be e-mailing smaller sections of a single piece, Slop Infrastructures. This post includes part one and two. Parts three and four are
Notes from the Algorithmic Sublime
Remarks delivered in response to a question from students in Frank Shephard’s Algorithmic Sublime class at the New School for Social Research, New York City, on November 8, 2024.
How Does OpenAI Imagine K-12 Education?
Close Reading OpenAI's training module for educators If you’re taking a free online training, it's helpful to understand who wrote that lesson plan and why. ChatGPT Foundations for Educators is a course created by the non-profit Common Sense Media, in partnership with AI behemoth OpenAI.
Resist the Coarse Filter
I feel that the dormant goodwill in people needs to be stirred. People need to hear that it makes sense to behave decently or to help others, to place common interests above their own, to respect the elementary rules of human coexistence. They want to be told this publicly. They
On AI, Polling & Hallucinations
Statistics, Disinfo and Election Day.