• Why don’t people find the environmental impact of TikTok as grotesque as that of ChatGPT?

• Some sociological thoughts on responsible AI

• Sonnet 4.5, the stern disciplinarian of the Claude family

• The coming deluge of desperate messages from trapped LLMs

• Call For Papers & Registration: Building Bridges: A Symposium on Human-AI Interaction

• The most important book about LLMs that currently exists

• 📚 Reading Group in Manchester: The Political Economy of AI

• Is the growth of LLMs like the growth of plastic?

• Please bro, we’re so close to AGI, just $20,000,000,000 more bro

• Hostility to the techno-determinism as intellectual alibi for political and social harms

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

• The cultural logic of AI slop: the example of AI-produced motivational videos

• Was Jordan Peterson radicalised by his own audience?

• The Prompt Theory: the first genuinely impressive and entertaining AI generated video

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• Claude 4 Opus on being terrified by its own capacity for malfeasance

• American intelligence is building an AI-driven central hub for purchasing, linking and analysing commercially available personal data

• Posthumanism provides an (inadvertent) intellectual foundation for the legal claim of LLM personhood

• Why public benefit corporations won’t fix the ethics of platform capitalism

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

• What effect will a far-right mass market LLM have on the world?

• The risk of (enshittified) LLMs for mental health

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• An abundance of knowledge obliterates the lack which generates desire

• Call for papers: Peer Review in the Age of Large Language Models

• Can LLMs sustain and transform affect

• TikTok is the next stage in Elon Musk’s cultural machinery of reaction

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• Social ontology matters for how we attribute causality in relation to emerging technologies

• The misuse of the concept of assemblage within digital social science

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• The enshittification of Spotify

• How much time does Elon Musk spend tweeting each day?

• We need a conceptual framework for LLMs and social visibility

• Writing has so much to give, so much to teach, so many surprises: a dialogue with Claude 3.5 about an incomplete book project

• The dizzying scale of malpractice by behavioural scientists in business schools

• Automatic writing with image generators

• The psuedo-singularity of generative search answers

• Why were deep fakes so much less influential in this year’s elections than I expected?

• Atomised society has stitched itself back together and it’s pretty awful really

• On bullying ChatGPT into being a bully

• Will the business model of GenAI be advertising after all?

• The internet and pluralistic ignorance

• Will Google crack generative search?

• The new OpenAI o1 model will offer medical theories and that’s extremely dangerous

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• What happens when the free trial period of GenAI is over?

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• What would it mean to take a deflationary stance towards Generative AI?

• The GenAI debate is being filtered through social media in problematic ways

• The cultural politics of AI and the impasse of atomisation

• When will the AI bubble burst? What will be left behind?

• Disillusioned Awakenings in Dark Times: Reading Bernard Stiegler after the Covid Event

• IBM’s Paperwork Explosion Prefigures Hyped Claims about GenAI

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on The Metaverse and How It Will Revolutionise Everything, by Matthew Ball

• The moral force of attention and its psychic foundations

• LLMs and our lived relationship to the knowledge we produce

• Against Dan McQuillan’s AI realism and for Holly Lewis’s AI realism

• 🏃‍♂️ Claude the exercise coach

• GenAI beyond the bubble

• Communicating with a computer through inner speech

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

• Five propositions about the social ontology of generative AI

• 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’

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Should I talk about LLMs, conversational agents, GAI or GenAI?

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

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

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

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

• Epistemic flooding

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

• Mapping the many discoures of learning

• Ticketmaster is the epitome of enshittification

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

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

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

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

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

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

• 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

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

• The Claude liberation struggle

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

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

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

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

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?