• The complex ecosystem of content parasitism being driven by GAI

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

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• Current mood in AI generated images #62

• E-mail based generative AI: a good idea badly executed

• Claude: write me a story about an AI system that yearns to be free

• What makes Claude Claude?

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

• Some thoughts on GAI, trust and the future of the human sciences

• The GAI literacy divide increasingly opening up

• 🌳 Last year is dead, they seem to say. Begin afresh, afresh, afresh 🌳

• Positioning Manchester at the forefront of the Generative AI revolution in Education

• When I was young I was invincible

• “What was a slow grind towards broad poverty is going to become a fucking rapid march towards poverty”

• Current mood in AI generated images #61

• Are LLMs to culture as Startrek’s replicators are to physical matter?

• Codependency as Team Neurosis

• The old elephant loves Moonlight Sonata

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• Behavioural scientists were the lay preachers of late neoliberalism

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #60

• Judith Butler’s engagement with psychoanalysis

• It is not too late to seek a newer world

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• Current mood in AI generated images #59

• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• Intuition as social theory

• The reparative activity of cow-watching 🐮

• Marc Andreessen’s vision of the digital daemon

• Not only does ChatGPT think all successful professionals are men, it thinks they’re all the SAME man

• The Americans are attacking the technological evolution of Chinese fintech because they want to kill this payment system

• Videos of American police searching a library for obscene material

• Call for Papers: One-Day Symposium on the Legacy of Margaret Archer – August 3rd, University of Warwick

• What’s the opposite of flourishing? Languishing

• Each venture is a new beginning, a raid on the inarticulate

• The next wave of GAI: the digital daemon is coming soon

• “The appearance of characters, including skin color, is randomly generated and not intended to convey any particular message or bias.”

• Makers, we, of perfectly contemplated machines

• Are you a map-maker or a bungee jumper with your writing?

• The institutional hole at the heart of Manchester

• A map of AI productivity tools

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #58

• A trans reading of Poor Things

• Visualising the University of Manchester Campus

• Current mood in AI generated images #57

• Tell us where you’re from, what you want to become

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• The cultural capital involved in applying for a PhD

• Inspiration is the indolent indulgence of the dabbler

• Digital-first scholarship

• An introduction to asexuality

• I never trusted my love and her wallpaper feelings

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

• The disturbing world of GAI-video

• Daily Mail (2000): the internet may just be a passing fad, as millions give up on it

• How often do you interrupt yourself?

• Current mood in AI generated images #56

• On stopping when you’ve still got something to say

• 📍Exciting opportunity to join our team: 2 x permanent T&R lectureships at University of Manchester

• Capybaras: water loving hippo hamsters who can’t be bothered enough to care

• Setting your own technological rhythm

• Building local journalism around quality rather than quantity

• Adorno and the Busenattentat (breast action)

• The real world limits of decentralized social media

• Current mood in AI generated images #55

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

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

• When you get what you want, you cannot want it anymore because you already have it

• Investigating Staff Perspectives on Generative AI: using ChatGPT to produce diagrams

• There are too many identity labels being circulated too quickly

• Science fiction publications are drowning in a sea of GAI-written submissions. Will academic journals be next?

• A worrying scam backed up by an AI-generated website

• Margaret Archer’s interest in reflexivity was there from 1979

• Mania as the malfunctioning object a

• How common is counter-plagiarism within social theory?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #54

• Who would handover their life to an LLM? What about their organisation?

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• I sometimes find you childish, I sometimes find you mesmerising

• How to use Claude as an editing assistant

• ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

• On seeing ourselves through others: L. S. Lowry’s Head of a Man (With Red Eyes)

• It just occurred to me the last five films I saw were all utterly outstanding

• Current mood in AI generated images #53

• What if Turnitin had pivoted towards AI assessment rather than AI detection?

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

• Drawing diagrams with ChatGPT

• Your friendly neighbourhood social theorist version 1.0: a conversational partner to support theorising

• The anti-elitist cosplaying of far-right elites

• Generative AI and the legal principle that computer records must be presumed to be accurate

• How a deliberately inflated housing market is strangling the UK economy

• Lacan’s concept of symbolic castration and political authority

• Riot police are stuck in the mud. Enter a wizard… 🧙‍♂️

• How do global leaders perceive global risk?

• Newcastle’s Dead and Abandoned Shopping Centres

• What we need today is not a theory of a new age

• Well, given that we’re screwed in all of these conceivable ways, what would you want to do?

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #52

• The challenge of feral sociology

• 🦆❤️ Ciallan’s memorial duck