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
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
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
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
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
"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
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
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