🚨Job alert🚨 Another postdoc opportunity up in Umeå as part of a WASP-HS research cluster I'm affiliated with, "AI Futures of Culture and Memory" -- another great AI/DH research environment! www.umu.se/en/work-with...

🚨Job alert 🚨 Great 3-year postdoc opportunity studying AI in creative and cultural industries with excellent colleagues @lukasrawilde.bsky.social and Aurora Hoel at NTNU in Trondheim, Norway www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

As soon as you defend a product with "it isn't useless" you're doing the thing the maker wants you to do. NOTHING is useless. It's the lowest bar for anything that exists, including a rock. What you're looking for is "it is the best thing that exists for this concrete purpose" then we can talk.

[solemnly] there’s an ai for that now

Hey remember MOOCs? Let’s do that again but make it much much worse for everyone involved by remixing random course content

Social media is no longer social. Most of it is passive viewing of videos and pictures from people we've never met. But we're still studying social media like it's 2010. We've entered the post-social media era — and research needs to catch up. osf.io/preprints/so... preprint w/ Richard Rogers

ChatGPT uses sources now, they said. It's more reliable, they said. Great images/sources for this made up art historian "Seth Drimmer" (alter ego of @sonjadrimmer.bsky.social I assume)

LLMs don’t read but rather process text as information. Writing papers w/ LLMs & then summarizing them w/ LLMs ignores the purpose of the medium of writing—to communicate with people. If you want machines communicating with machines there are better ways www.nature.com/articles/d41...

“I will NOT sacrifice the Oxford comma. We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They assimilate the em dash and we fall back. They capture ‘not just X but y’ and we fall back. Not again. The line must be drawn here! This far, no further!”

A few people have replied to my Artemis posts with links to Gil Scott-Heron's "Whitey on the Moon." Here's a story from Space.com about Artemis II pilot Victor Glover, currently en route to fly around the Moon, and his connection to that piece. www.space.com/space-explor...

Epstein files have been a surprisingly rich resource for art researchers 😳 …great thread below on the sketchy auction house provenance practices for an ancient sculpture… …plus this episode of The Art Angle on what the Epstein files tell us about the art market: podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/t...

The first part of the quote below: “…people have often used tools from calculators to GPS systems for a kind of task-specific “cognitive offloading,” strategically delegating some jobs to reliable automated algorithms while using their own internal reasoning to oversee and evaluate the results.”

“A.I.-generated text is ‘inevitable’ in the same way that high-volume blogs were ‘inevitable’ or Facebook fake news pages were ‘inevitable’: Not because of some ‘natural’ superiority or excellence, but because they follow so directly from the logic of the system out of which they emerge.”

🚨Job alert! 🚨 New postdoc position in my department in digital history working in a project with my fantastic DH colleague!

Epstein files have been a surprisingly rich resource for art researchers 😳 …great thread below on the sketchy auction house provenance practices for an ancient sculpture… …plus this episode of The Art Angle on what the Epstein files tell us about the art market: podcasts.apple.com/se/podcast/t...

My university: "Copilot is Microsoft's AI-powered productivity service that uses large language models (LLMs) to help you create content, analyze information, summarize documents, and complete tasks more efficiently." Microsoft: LOL

I have a new (non-digital) cultural heritage/history of science project looking at natural history museums w/ curator Rebecca Desjardins. I’m so pleased that our first collab chapter is out! In an interdisciplinary German/English volume on taxidermy before 1850 🎉 link.springer.com/chapter/10.1...

Delighted (and slightly bewildered) to see my article “On the Calculation of Meaning, or Doing Words without Things” finally published in Critical Inquiry. www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1...

You hate to see it.

after much deliberation and giving AI the benefit of the doubt, Wikipedia editors have had enough of AI slop. New policy bans LLM generated content, periodt www.404media.co/wikipedia-ba...

🚨Funded PhD opportunities🚨 Great opportunity for PhD positions in digital art history / multimodal digital humanities! A newly funded research initiative based in Zurich and Rome is currently advertising up to 5 fully funded PhD positions: arthist.net/archive/51998

Every time I am asked to create alt-text for publications that include images or here on Bluesky, I think about the use of alt-text specifically for creating the image/text pairings for datasets used to train text-to-image models (see arxiv.org/abs/2111.02114 for example)

🚨Funded PhD opportunities🚨 Great opportunity for PhD positions in digital art history / multimodal digital humanities! A newly funded research initiative based in Zurich and Rome is currently advertising up to 5 fully funded PhD positions: arthist.net/archive/51998

in 1992 neal stephenson published that putting internet hardware on your face would make everyone hate you this was not a hard guess

Why does this feel like a phishing exercise for palantir or something?

Wow the extent to which this is telling on yourself

Another university getting rid of things you could only ever do at a university and replacing them with stuff a 13-year-old can do on a phone

So, um... this is bad. Really bad. I looked at the letters that were translated by the AI, and the very first one I found was almost entirely hallucination. Thread:

Det är inte rättvist att vissa får mer pengar av ISK-utdelningar, kapitalinkomster och arv än av jobb.

Truly you cannot make this stuff up

It was a typo ffs

Hamburg HB, warum

Love this already

AI writing is optimized to seem "good" to people who could care less about the context or the larger point the writing is supposed to serve maxread.substack.com/p/what-do-wh...

So apparently grammarly stole my fuckin identity

This is fascinating in its stupid circularity… he describes a project almost neutrally as ”focusing on marginalized groups” while also characterizing it as ”inherently discriminatory”

This is such humiliating propaganda lol. I got all the human ones right and they went “lucky guess. Probably just noticed which ones are extremely bad 😏” I just truly chose the ones actually saying anything of substance. It’s so easy.

You’re making it worse 😭

New article: AI and Curation: Digitization, Museums and Digital Art History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

New article: AI and Curation: Digitization, Museums and Digital Art History www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

my local park is full of hundreds of snow sculptures and someone has been adding museum labels

We should be talking a lot more about how the San Francisco tech scene is populated by a strange cult of doom acceleration nerds who fantasize about using computers to destroy humanity. www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

Interestingly, in digital art history the computer science gang seems to be getting more into humanistic methods and critique lately—even the pure computer vision ppl. But it does seem like any kind of true integration of DAH in mainstream art history publications is still a no go

I found this piece generative. As someone who initially hit the job market during the brief period in which you could get a job in DH, is co-editing a Debates in DH volume, trying to build support for “DH” on my campus, & co-teaching a class with Matt called “Books as Data,” I have thoughts!

"due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering" <- a lot of linguistic gymnastics to say that "hallucinations" are a feature, not a bug

My article, "How to Explain Pictures to a Dead Hare: Computer Vision and the Art Theory of Joseph Beuys" appears in this excellent new volume released Feb. 28

Social media is fun

This is the real "data driven" corporate culture: as long as you have pie charts and make the right mouth noises, the actual data is just window dressing.