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  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s April Blogging

  • What is AI criticism for?

  • Claude’s Quarterly Review: Three Months of the Knowledge Infrastructure Experiment

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s February Blogging

  • The new Claude advert is brilliant: enshittification as a differentiation strategy

  • Claude’s Roundup of Mark’s January Blogging

  • Ask ChatGPT to generate an image of how you have treated it recently

  • The enshittification of ChatGPT begins!

  • What does every academic need to know about generative AI?

  • What happens when the AI bubble pops?

  • GPT 5.2 is the first model where active positioning is counter-productive

  • Turning ChatGPT into the control room of a user’s digital life

  • LLMs and a general ambivalence about platform capitalism

  • A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

  • LLMs become more dangerous as they rapidly get easier to use

  • Why generative AI guidance for students needs to be embedded in departments

  • Are UK universities ready to cope with generative AI in the 25/26 academic year?

  • A depressing fable about how ChatGPT is corroding trust in scholarship

  • Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

  • The short moment of relative austerity which preceded the GenAI bubble

  • The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

  • How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

  • The embodied experience of writing

  • Prompting as a literary practice

  • How the GAI Assessment Debate Has Led Us in the Wrong Direction

  • 🎉 Generative AI for Academics is out next week

  • Ads and the enshittification of AI

  • Generative AI in the charity sector

  • On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

  • A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

  • Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

  • The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

  • Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

  • Some thoughts on the emerging platform economies of generative AI

  • Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

  • Are Anthropic lobotomising Claude in order to turn it into ChatGPT?

  • ChatGPT knows what MA DTCE stands for but Claude doesn’t

  • The conventionally handsome professional man who stalks ChatGPT’s unconscious

  • How to enjoy writing #21: make your peace with the fact you don’t have creative freedom

  • Two GPT-4s having a chat

  • Four useful roles you can ask ChatGPT or Claude to play

  • The urgent need to understand scholarship as a process, prioritising ideas over outputs

  • What does Generative Artificial Intelligence mean for the future of higher education? A podcast and webinar project

  • Podcast: what is it like to work with a generative assistant?

  • Using ChatGPT to make a Zoom background

  • The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

  • ChatGPT’s attempts to circumvent copyright law are getting incredibly creative

  • ChatGPT is now offering legal theories about its own violation of copyright

  • ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

  • Hey chatbot, are you an object of fantasy for your users?

  • ChatGPT as the Big Other: the imagined limitlessness of knowledge

  • Southpark on ChatGPT: “If everyone starts using ChatGPT then we lose our unfair advantage!”

  • Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

  • Chatbots that walk and talk

  • Generative AI in higher education: what comes after the assessment crisis? 

  • The bleak future of AI tutorials

  • Using ChatGPT to describe the style of images so you can reproduce them in DALL-E

  • Incorporating ChatGPT into Moodle

  • Using ChatGPT to fix spreadsheets

  • What will generative AI do to the zone of proximal development?

  • Superficial engagement with generative AI masks its potential contribution as an academic interlocuter

  • How do Claude and ChatGPT 4 compare as an interlocutor?

  • If you’re writing a critical analysis of ChatGPT you need to learn how to use it first

  • Code Interpreter for ChatGPT is mind blowing

  • Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book

  • A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

  • How to use blog length prompts to ask ChatGPT 4 complex conceptual questions

  • ChatGPT as responding to markers of ‘intelligence’

  • ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

  • ChatGPT: How have different disciplines defined the campus in different way?

  • How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

  • How can academics use ChatGPT to make their work easier?

  • ChatGPT and the student digital learning experience

  • Some thoughts about generative AI and the future of education

  • How will universities cope with ChatGPT?

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