• WordPress selling data to OpenAI

• 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 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.”

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

• A map of AI productivity tools

• 📍Open resource: Using generative AI during a PhD

• 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

• Spam for academics will soon be GAI-generated

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

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

• 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

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

• Using Google’s Gemini to talk about Lacan

• How to use Claude as an editing assistant

• ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

• 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

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

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

• Generative AI beyond assessment: what could happen over the next few years?

• The (thin) relational reflexivity of working with conversational agents

• On the machinic qualities of human interaction and the human qualities of the machine

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

• The value of a long-term personal blog in the next phase of GAI

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

• The alternative to avant-garde theorising

• Not only can DALL-E not spell, it can’t hide stuff either

• There is a Wikipedia page on obsolete occupations

• Human cognition meets machine cognition, human cognition gets better

• Generative AI and the challenge for professionalism

• Do people dismiss GAI-supported work because it doesn’t involve the sacrifice of time?

• Which of the three forms of creativity is GAI capable of?

• The impending reality of the digital daemon

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Accelerating (social) science with human-aware artificial intelligence

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

• CfP: Symbolic Interactionism and AI

• “You must have been subjected to another AI generated audiotrack, I never said any such thing”

• Will ChatGPT eventually be unmasked to its users?

• CFP: Generative AI Governance – Special Issues in Information, Communication & Society

• How do we visualise an assemblage?

• Hannah Arendt on machinic rhythms and their power to consume our autonomy

• Postmodernism: the anxious dreams of boomer theorists?

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

• From social media to generative media: the confusing landscape of post-pandemic research communication

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• The ability of ChatGPT to generate a fake dataset

• Are children the biggest users of generative AI in the UK?

• DragonBot and Shelly the Turtle: the robotic future of primary education

• Generative AI for Academics

• The moral economy of automaticity: sociological and psychoanalytical perspectives

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• New Horizons in Generative AI:

• The Luddite predicament in the 19th century and the 21st century

• Current mood in AI generated images #32

• Chatbots that walk and talk

• Video: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Current mood in AI generated images #31

• How platforms shape the parameters of agency

• The GAI-driven future of the book

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #30

• What will the automated university look like?

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

• If AI was like a hammer

• The bleak future of AI tutorials

• Platform & agency: becoming who we are in a digital world

• From social media to generative media: a first lecture on my next project after Generative AI for Academics

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

• Current mood in AI generated images #29

• Webinar: How is AI changing the teaching and academic landscape?

• Claude: how can you help me analyse open response questions on surveys?

• I want to unfold

• ChatGPT: how can academics use the new voice conversation and image analysis features?

• Generative AI for Academics: 13 principles

• Synthetic humans as research instruments

• Smallville: ChatGPT NPC Life Simulation. Emergent conversation

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• Current mood in AI generated images #28

• AI, digitalisation and the crisis of post-pandemic capitalism

• Alan Levinovitz on empowerment epistemology

• “You just cannot trust someone who is publishing ten papers a year in top journals.”

• The coming wave of document forensics about to hit the university: the weak signals of generative AI

• DALL-E 3: Draw me a picture of a capybara taking over the world

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• Machine translation in higher education

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #27

• Big Data, Critical Realism, Human Agency and the Future of the Social Sciences

• Beyond ChatGPT: what next for generative AI in higher education

• How Amazon define the difference between AI-generated and AI-assisted

• Interrogating AI in education: when peeking inside the black box is not enough

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #26

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #25