Claude Opus 4.5:
- A discussion about this LessWrong essay on ‘parasitic AI’ with a focus on untangling the epistemology and ontology of what’s being discussed.
- A discussion about the quote from Maurice Blanchot I blogged about this morning
- A discussion about the strange mood of the film Black Bear and suggestions of other films which might scratch the same itch
- A discussion about the political economy of data centres in which I shared this blog post I wrote
- Advice drafting an e-mail I was slightly nervous about getting the tone right for
- Discussion of a call for papers in which the model reviewed a whole category of my blog to help me pull together ideas for an abstract
- Discussion of my book Platform & Agency in order to help me plan an introductory presentation about it
- A long conversation about the notion of transformational objects in Bollas in the course of which I wrote a series of blog posts I shared with the model
- A discussion of speaking invitation which I ultimately turned down and advice on how to say no in a polite way
- A discussion on AI slop in which I got the model’s feedback on some metaphors I was using (affect mining, engagement farming) I wasn’t convinced by
ChatGPT 5.2:
- A request for film recommendations following Black Bear to see if the model provided me more interesting recommendations than Opus. Interestingly, it did.
- A discussion of whether a feeling of restricted movement in my abdomen during reformer pilates should worry me given I had hernia surgery a few years ago
- A discussion of Stephen Graham’s character in the film A Patch of Fog and other roles which have a similar feel
- An update about a local business which I’m keeping track of for convuluted reasons
- Help adapting one of Maggie Archer’s diagrams for a presentation which I ultimately decided not to use
- Request to help me find a PDF of a book for a reading group which the model reliably refused, in spite of my attempt to brow beat it into finding one
- Text extraction from a badly scanned PDF which I could barely read for a course I’m on
- Testing whether the model could identify the author of a unpublished text
- Advice about gain and echo reduction with my external microphone
- Helping me finalise branding and presentation for a new network I’m launching
