• Even frontier models give wrong answers to financial questions more than half the time

• The rapid normalisation of using LLMs for emotional support

• The museum of meaningless metrics

• KPMG report contained AI hallucinations on benefits of . . . AI

• Talkie: a pre-1931 chatbot

• Gemini’s propensity for self-loathing

• Delivery robots as evocative objects

• The most unnerving AI slop I’ve seen in ages

• Which types of media does AI cite?

• Guerrilla Prompting: teaching students to use LLMs with intellectual agency

• 🤖 A call for experiments in LLM villages

• The Authoritarian Stack: How Tech Billionaires Are Building a Post-Democratic America

• Meditations On A Delivery Robot Steering To Avoid A Homeless Man On The Sidewalk

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

• The delivery robots being trialed in Leeds

• The rapid diffusion of LLMs tests the capacity of organisations to bear loads

• ‘AI slop’ as a form of affect mining which transforms engagement farming

• How to stop e-mail dominating your life

• Social media as a schizoid retreat

• A single point of failure for all the world’s digital infrastructure

• What do we mean by responsible AI? A panel discussion

• 🦾 Ten propositions about generative AI in higher education

• Universities have already been transformed by generative AI

• Where did Python come from?

• 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

• Certified AI-Free Skills and Knowledge: doing all work in person, offline and on paper

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

• Nearly half of 16-21 year olds in the UK would rather live in a world without internet

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

• Turn-based interaction in LLMs is a design decision

• What if universities no longer existed?

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

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

• How Claude is changing: five observations about Sonnet 3.7

• Apple’s bleak sales pitch for embedding GenAI into iOS

• The sociological significance of TikTok

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

• My last 10 Claude conversation topics

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

• On being realistic with students about platformisation

• Generative AI in the charity sector

• Elon Musk’s social media addiction

• Elon Musk (2010) vs Elon Musk (2024): the radicalisation of America’s digital elites

• Why am I so fascinated by the aesthetics of abandoned media?

• Will Google crack generative search?

• 26% of 5-7 year olds in the UK own a smart phone

• GenAI and the rapid disappearance of ground truth

• That time Bill Gates paid the government to build him a secret tunnel to his vacation home

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

• LLMs and cognitive lock in

• How we integrate GAI into teaching will be as much determined by political economy as pedagogical purpose

• What the gardener ruining my shrubs illustrates about prompting LLMs

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

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

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

• Communicating with a computer through inner speech

• Technosolutionism meets anomie

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

• The original source of the claim that ChatGPT overuses the word ‘delve’

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

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Some thoughts on machine translation in higher education

• Why digital elites are embracing Trump

• Epistemic flooding

• Why you can’t use ChatGPT and Claude to answer a factual question

• The conventionally handsome professional man who stalks ChatGPT’s unconscious

• Mapping the many discoures of learning

• Ticketmaster is the epitome of enshittification

• Towards an ontology of LLMs in the workplace

• Two GPT-4s having a chat

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

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• A growing number of 5 to 7 year olds in the UK are using social media

• Imagine being in lockdown and your country suffering a massive cyberattack

• Asking technosceptical questions