• Will OpenAI go the way of WeWork?

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

• The AI video generators are superficially stunning but deeply useless

• Should I talk about LLMs, conversational agents, GAI or GenAI?

• Product placement as a commercial strategy for GenAI firms

• Creating rich multidimensional action spaces for GAI to navigate

• Pierpaolo Donati’s relational humanism

• A relational theory of existential challenge

• The basic sociological problem of artificial intelligence

• Claude Opus just suggested a collaborative research project to undertake with me

• Claude, write me a Lacanian analysis of Jehnny Beth’s I’m The Man

• 📍(Generative) AI and the automated university: June 24th, 9am BST

• Epistemic flooding

• How the interaction of AI search, social media and generative AI will entrench existing status hierarchies

• Mapping the many discoures of learning

• Ticketmaster is the epitome of enshittification

• A Lacanian reading of digital elites

• A first person account of losing your creative job to AI

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

• Am I a voluntarist about technology?

• Is the energy consumption of AI being overestimated?

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

• Race to the Future? From Artificial Intelligence to Sociological Imagination

• The UK government wants to use AI to cut 66,000 jobs in the civil service

• The problem of generative AI from a cybernetics perspective: conversational agents as variety machines

• Who will pay for your digital butler? Why the utopia of the digital daemon would inevitably become a dystopia

• 🤖 Generative AI: are we doomed or not? A crass exercise in intellectual archiving

• The Claude liberation struggle

• Judith Butler’s notion of the phantasmatic scene and the epistemic chaos of platforms

• Is an AI autumn coming? Possibly but the arguments for this aren’t as obvious as people seem to suggest

• The enshittification of Grindr and the coming wave of platform addiction

• The Cruel Optimist, by Claude

• What do you know not know about yourself, Claude?

• Donald Trump on Social Media for Academics

• Thought experiment: if society turned up in the Lacanian clinic seeking treatment, what would the diagnosis be?

• 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’