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

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

• Which types of media does AI cite?

• Robot dogs that shit out packages onto your front porches

• Anti-ICE AI slop on Youtube

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

• Social media as a schizoid retreat

• A systems sensibility rather than a systems theory

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

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

• Kangaroos don’t have opposable thumbs!!!

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

• 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

• Distracted from distraction by distraction

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

• An agenda for repurposing AI in higher education

• Does Trump dictate his tweets?

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

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

• The Ethical Grey Areas of Machine Writing in Higher Education

• The sociological significance of TikTok

• #FreeOurFeeds – help secure the future of social media

• On being realistic with students about platformisation

• Automatic writing with image generators

• Why spend two minutes trying to tell someone what they meant to you when the platform can write a ‘heartfelt’ message for you?

• Elon Musk has not finished building his cultural machine

• Liberal conspiracism and the parts of the psyche that media literacy training doesn’t touch

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

• The lost sociotechnical ailments of writers

• Nick Cave: “put your fucking phones away”

• 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

• The Deepfake Detection test

• What the gardener ruining my shrubs illustrates about prompting LLMs

• My notes on Surveillance Capitalism

• My notes on Deep Work by Cal Newport

• Conversational agents can be sponsors of literacy

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

• The privilege of escaping from the Twittering Machine

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Epistemic flooding

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

• Prompt engineering is an expression of cultural capital. Some (critical) notes on Ethan Mollick’s Co-Intelligence book

• The danger GAI poses to the public sphere is not false belief, it’s the (further) collapse of trust in truth

• The terrifying future of AI-driven news

• Crowds on Demand: “out-of-the-box campaigns, audiences and events”

• The almost infinite range of cases to which shallow fakes can be applied

• 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