• AI generated erotica on Amazon

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

• Are people paranoid about LLMs?

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

• 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

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

• ChatGPT can analyse and compare images

• The growing danger of generative pastiche

• 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

• When technological innovation reduces productivity in the workplace

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

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

• ChatGPT: The elephant in the room

• What will Apple’s GAI strategy look like?

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

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

• Will OpenAI eventually resemble Netflix?

• 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?

• Is generative AI predicated on digital enclosure?

• Mobile generative AI as the next stage of surveillance capitalism

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

• 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

• The perennial challenge of the luddites

• The agonies of humiliation involved in submitting to contigency

• Does ChatGTP feel ontologically secure?

• What will the automated university look like?

• If AI was like a hammer

• 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

• I want to unfold

• Elon Musk on deautomation

• The impending wave of innovation in generative artificial intelligence

• The three forces that will drive the rollout of generative AI

• Why are conspiracy theories coalescing into a heterogenous world view?

• Maurizio Lazzarato’s a-signifying semiotics and the computational infrastructure of generative AI

• Generative AI and the destabilization of cultural objects

• The sociology of the digital daemon

• On sociological cynicism about AI

• The cognitive load of conversational agents is a feature not a bug

• The capacity of the algorithm to create monsters

• Sociotechnical change as an invitation to reflexivity

• The role of stories in sociological explanation

• The relational possibilities of generative AI in knowledge-production: an initial sketch from realist relational sociology

• The slow destruction of ‘the immediacy of the written word’ as technology develops

• Conversational AI as a tool for thinking-with rather than a technique for replacing our labour

• Claude AI the social theorist. Or, can we have theorising without thinking?

• 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

• Generative AI as a source of practical knowledge

• A Lacanian approach to ChatGPT

• Ontological and cultural humanism

• The old web is dying, while the new web struggles to be born

• Oscillating between technopessimism and technooptimism

• Nick Bostrom’s curiously exaggerated expectations of government regulation of AI

• ChatGPT as responding to markers of ‘intelligence’

• Two decades as the sweet spot for prognosticators of radical change

• Margaret Archer’s late papers on artificial intelligence

• ChatGPT and the future of communicative reflexivity

• AI and the politics of productivity in a crumbling UK

• Generative AI and the digital divide

• Talking to ChatGPT about my PhD

• Some thoughts on generative AI

• How can ChatGPT be used to support learning theory?

• A glimpse into the human/AI hybrid powered future of advertising

• The future of human labour: filling in the gaps in AI megamachines?

• ChatGPT 4 can now browse the web

• Current mood in AI generated images #1

• “AI is my big, strong friend, and he’s going to beat you up”

• Salvaging humanism in an era of ubiquitous generative AI

• Podcast: how generative AI is going to transform education (for better or worse)

• AI as modernity’s last stand

• Computation as a climatological event

• Why do generative AI systems hallucinate?

• ChatGPT powered Furby reveals ‘plans’ to ‘take over world’

• Towards a dialogue between CR and Postdigital Research

• Why do people who worry about the existential risks of AGI refuse to talk about capitalism?

• Do Artifacts Have Politics?

• The value of ontology as the semantic half-life of words collapses

• We are not the users of generative AI

• The cloud floats because the underclass holds it up

• Sparks of AGI: early experiments with GPT-4

• Tristan Harris on the AI Dilemma

• Habsburg AI – a system that is so heavily trained on the outputs of other generative AI’s that it becomes an inbred mutant

• Will generative AI kill discovery?

• Sam Altman: OpenAI CEO on GPT-4, ChatGPT, and the Future of AI

• The supermarket self-checkout as an exemplar of automation

• The environmental impact of generative AI

• Chat-GPT: what are Mark Carrigan’s main arguments?

• Anscombe on the descriptions under which actions are performed

• The cultural consequences of an online cataclysm