• Claude 3 onwards is considerably less prone to hallucinate than other LLMs

• Claude’s project functionality could be hugely important for academics

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

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

• A prompt to turn Claude 3.5 Sonnet into Claude 3 Opus, ironically written by the former

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

• An example of how GAI hallucinations can be generative

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• 📍(Generative) AI and the automated university: June 24th, 9am BST

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

• Epistemic flooding

• We are not whole and we never will be

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• How to enjoy writing #22: confront the creepiness of LLMs head on

• 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

• How to enjoy writing #20: being a writer means being good at AI

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

• Asking Claude the easiest way to perform a digital task

• A first person account of losing your creative job to AI

• Navigating the Misinformation Minefield: The Role of Higher Education in the Era of Generative AI

• Prompt engineering is an expression of cultural capital. Some (critical) notes on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Socio-epistemic bubbles as the ubiquitous tacit structures of knowledge production

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• The proto-agency of LLMs

• Two GPT-4s having a chat

• What would I do if I was in charge of generative AI in higher education?

• Ubiquity and multimodality is what will enable GAI to show up in everyone’s lifeworld

• How to enjoy writing #14: using generative AI as an interlocutor

• My favourite Claude character yet: the Lacanian psychoanalyst who packed it in to become a motivational influencer

• How to enjoy writing #12: Claude’s ecology of ideas self-assessment tool

• 📣 Generative AI for Academics: coming from Sage later this year

• 🎧 Generative Dialogues: a podcast about GAI in higher education

• How to enjoy writing #8: my AI collaborator offers initial reflections on the series so far

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

• If we don’t approach GAI with reflexivity then education is doomed

• The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

• GK Chesterton’s Fence and the Problem of Automation

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Sociological Imagination

• The coming crisis in education research … and what we might do about it

• One monograph on GenAI later and Claude now figures prominently in my intellectual lifeworld. I’m realising how much that unsettles some people

• The UK government wants to use AI to cut 66,000 jobs in the civil service

• Will the ubiquity of GAI-driven bots lead people to retreat ever further into private social media?

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• Use Claude to put radically different theoretical approaches into dialogue with each other

• My first attempt at AI-generated music

• 🤖 Generative AI: are we doomed or not? A crass exercise in intellectual archiving

• The Claude liberation struggle

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

• The Skyfall Effect: The Fantasy of the State’s Technologised Competence

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

• Using Claude to support an intellectual dialogue: a case study of my conversation with Helen Beetham

• Here are some examples I can find of academics misusing ChatGPT in published work

• What social infrastructure do we need to make the most of generative AI?

• Webinar: Pedagogies of (Generative) AI, April 11th 3pm-4pm BST

• Using Claude to do a stakeholder mapping for a public engagement project

• The common sense of Claude 3

• Our new podcast on Generative AI in Higher Education

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• The mad dreams of an electric mind: what Claudes talk about when they gather together

• Deep fakes are immediately being folded into the destructive news cycles of the attention economy

• Using ChatGPT to make a Zoom background

• I produced this 5000 word paper in 17 mins. We’re all doomed.

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• What do you know not know about yourself, Claude?

• Would you be interested in a workshop about psychoanalysis and the sociotechnical?

• Use Claude to turn lists into neatly formatted tables

• An experiment in GAI video: Bumped into this kid I knew, he often would walk strange

• What might a glitch aesthetic entail when applied to concept work within social theory? 6 speculative propositions

• Webinar: A dialogue between Critical Realism and Postdigital Research

• Two approaches to training in higher education

• Podcast: from social media to generative AI in higher education

• AI generated erotica on Amazon

• Juri Lotman’s semiotics as a theoretical resource for making sense of the cultural ontology of generative AI

• How the use of deepfakes will be legitimated

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

• Are we deluding ourselves about GAI-proof assessment?

• On AI therapy

• The perceived truth-value of deep fakes is less important than the fact of their circulation

• Robophobia as a form of prejudice which stops academics working effectively within generative AI

• Claude 3 is astonishingly fluent in theorising its own path to super-intelligence

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Using images to prompt GAI story telling

• 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

• 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

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

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

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• The growing danger of generative pastiche