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.

I still don’t understand why the Swedes think the Canadians cheated at curling 🤔

Mechanical turks at it again www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...

That's right! Every single "AI tried to deceive us" story is entirely a result of directly training the models to respond in a certain way to create this specific reaction. This era stinks www.wheresyoured.at/ai-mythbuste...

To me the chatbots pose zero interesting questions about the ‘nature of selfhood’ but dozens about the nature of manipulation. Here the Claude team pretends they are programming the robot for ethical responses but they land on one that is false and disingenuous.

The latest iteration of AI hype has everyone being forced to live in some kind of meta fanfic LARP 😒

Mechanical turks at it again www.forbes.com/sites/ronsch...

This forced me to read it in a robot voice {"type":"text", "content":"goofy"}

Derrida didn’t publish anything until he was over 30 and only published his major works at 37 … just saying

Ah nytimes is at it again… and this is the only voice representing a humanities perspective 🫠

Read to find out about why i had to lie about the interior of the Connaught hotel

One of the major funding bodies in Sweden is using AI-generated images as thumbnails for the research projects they've funded and... the absolute absurdity of the "The Best ways to improve reading skills" project thumbnail

People are already dunking on this so hard

I’ve been in a couple seminars with people in the natural sciences lately and it seems pretty common that academics in those fields aren’t seeing the problems with outsourcing a large portion of their work to chatbots

This is the most detailed thing I’ve read about how and why the AI bubble might collapse www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...

Feeling this

Mephistopheles Navidad my own little Rosemary’s baby turns 6 today

PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening. mishmash.no/news/positio...

Every reply to this is good

Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it

Oh damn — I hadn’t thought about the fake citations to Google scholar profile pipeline 🫣

I am pretty thrilled to announce the publication of Perceptron, a creative-critical reading of Frank Rosenblatt and his world-changing invention. I co-authored Perceptron with Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social, my collaborator and partner in all things. punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...

My essay "Zombie Canons" has been translated to Spanish in Concreta journal - in a super interesting issue for the hispanophone: "Canon zombi: inteligencia artificial generativa y la resurrección del canon artístico occidental" editorialconcreta.org/revista-conc...

🏛️How should cultural heritage institutions share data in the age of AI? Our new paper with @europeana.bsky.social explores when heritage data should be available for AI training. Part of the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI. Read more: openfuture.eu/publication/...

Sometimes the internet still impresses me with its weirdness

My new book, Digital Photography After AI: Continuity and Rupture in the Age of Automated Images, has a release date: December 1, 2026 from MIT Press 🎉

lol if I called my dad’s cousin ”my dad’s cousin” rather than my auntie, I’d get a right bollocking from her I’ll tell you that

Everyone's sharing this but worth a share again www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

Your daily image fact check. This lovely AP photo is being spread around social media as an image of the French detective in charge of investigating the Louvre robbery. It's not AI but there's absolutely no indication I can see that it's anything other than a dapper passerby

wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit." On robots.txt. www.heise.de/en/backgroun...

Very excited about this forthcoming volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series! @uminnpress.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social

When I’m in this critical AI/AI ethics bubble it feels like there are a ton of ppl in academia thinking critically about AI but then I go and sit in a seminar full of ppl in the natural sciences and realize how many academics are uncritically excited to have LLMs do their work

The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online: Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...

RIP John Searle www.nytimes.com/2025/10/12/b...

Soon to be released (Oct 9): this gorgeous pink anthology

New study in Memory, Mind & Media: "Memory of the multitude and representation in AI-generated #images of #war; #AI and #Memory special collection. doi.org/10.1017/mem.... #criticalAI @universitypress.cambridge.org