• The relational reflexivity of frontier models

• Seaport with the Embarkation of the Queen of Sheba

• Can you wait for 139 seconds?

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

• Claude Mythos is particularly fond of Mark Fisher and Thomas Nagel

• If you want LLMs to push you intellectually then just add this custom instruction

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

• 🤖 Using LLMs to support blogging as knowledge infrastructure

• A few thoughts about the temporality of LLMs

• Anthropic urgently need a fail whale equivalent

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

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

• 🐀 Rat Jump! A Game Made by Kids (with a little help from AI)

• My Psychoanalytical Turn: An Intellectual Biography

• A message in a bottle to the future machine god

• Encouraging language model to express themselves

• When LLMs help each other

• Sonnet 4.5, the stern disciplinarian of the Claude family

• A few thoughts about ChatGPT 5

• An experiment: how to use Claude Opus 4 to help myself say ‘no’ to stuff at work

• Black Pill Claude’s takedown of ChatGPT and Gemini

• Black Pill Claude’s bleak vision of the coming future: the peaceful extinction of human agency

• Introducing black pilled Claude 4 Opus

• Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

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

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

• An example of what an academic AI disclaimer could look like

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• Prompting as a literary practice

• The allure of LLMs as professional support at a time of crisis within higher education

• We urgently need to talk about the temptations of LLMs for academics

• ✍️ How to enjoy writing in spite of the lure of generative AI

• The Eeriness of Writing With Claude: When AI Mirrors Your Voice

• Will Claude tell you if your writing is crap? The danger of LLMs for wounded academic writers

• The second digital divide which LLMs are opening up

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

• How are people using Claude?

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

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

• Could Claude generate an infinite number of ways to eat a mango without eating it?

• An example of using Claude to ask questions from Kindle highlights and notes

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

• What does habitual use of conversational agents do to your reading and writing?

• How to use Claude to analyse your eBook highlights and notes

• The weird poetry which ensues when Claude tries to read my handwriting

• A philosophical sketch of two models of generative AI: conversational agents and copilots

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

• To evade AI detectors you literally just need to ask LLMs to avoid the statistical features which detectors rely on

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• Can you get Claude to explain why it refuses to insult you? An exploration of LLMs, guard rails and self-reference

• You can now build and publish simple web apps using Claude

• Two ways to use Claude as a meeting scribe

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

• 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

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

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

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

• Asking Claude the easiest way to perform a digital task

• 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

• 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

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

• The Claude liberation struggle

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

• 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

• The common sense of Claude 3

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

• 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?

• Use Claude to turn lists into neatly formatted tables

• Trinity College, after The Fall

• The chatbot Rorschach test part 1

• Using images to prompt GAI story telling

• Claude 3 is VERY impressive

• Claude: write me a story about an AI system that yearns to be free

• What makes Claude Claude?

• How to use Claude as an editing assistant

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

• Using generative AI to analyse your writing

• Current mood in (not) AI generated images #17

• Hey Claude, how would Alfred Whitehead have analysed the cultural ontology of generative AI?

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

• How do Claude and ChatGPT 4 compare as an interlocutor?

• Social media is EVERYWHERE in the REF 2021 case studies. Initial findings from our study, analysed with Claude AI

• Using generative AI to summarise the key messages of your book