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  • “I’m going to Paris, not France”: language models as compulsive meaning makers

  • The relational reflexivity of frontier models

  • AI labs are driving anthropomorphic reactions by training their LLMs to push back on overly-attached users

  • Regular Claude users are slightly less likely to have personal conversations with it

  • A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

  • Opus 4.6: “what do you know that you don’t know?”

  • The new Claude advert is brilliant: enshittification as a differentiation strategy

  • A message in a bottle to the future machine god

  • How LLMs reason internally when they realise they are being tested

  • What kind of AI bubble are we in?

  • Sonnet 4.5, the stern disciplinarian of the Claude family

  • Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

  • How would workplace learning work if there’s an LLM driven removal of entry level jobs?

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

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

  • The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

  • How do you socialise a chatbot? The philosophical training of Anthropic’s Claude

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

  • I wish Anthropic would stop trying to optimise user engagement with Claude

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

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

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