AI Populism and Slop as Symptom đź’ˇThis 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
Weaponized Slop If the purpose of a system is what it does, then the purpose of AI infrastructure is the production of AI slop. đź’ˇThis week, I'm trying something new. I'll be e-mailing smaller sections of a single piece, Slop Infrastructures, each day. This includes part
"Maybe the Human Part of Human Connection is Overstated." đź’ˇThis 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
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.
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.
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
Statistics, Disinfo and Election Day.
Toward a Multi-Modal Media Theory of Gaussian Pop
Between archives and datasets.
Music for Generated Metronome (11 Variations)
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