Two years ago, my novel "(Berlin, Miami)" came out in German. I "wrote" it by training a language model (GPT-J/GPT-NeoX) on four contemporary novels. The outcome is, unsurprisingly, surreal and fractured and, although funny, not a straightforward narrative at all. soundcloud.com/hannes-bajoh...

Scientists and scholars in AI and its social impacts call on von der Leyen to retract #AIHype statement. @olivia.science @abeba.bsky.social @irisvanrooij.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social @rocher.lc @danmcquillan.bsky.social @robin.berjon.com & many others have signed www.iccl.ie/press-releas...

Mamdani cracks 1M votes, the first NYC mayor to do so since John Lindsay in 1969

People who are leaving NYC, please post pix of your U-Hauls!

wow, all those AI ads for nothing. who would've thought?

Yes!

Tucker Carlson's friendly interview with a Holocaust denier raises new questions about Zohran Mamdani's commitment to fighting antisemitism.

This person is one hundred percent correct and it’s scary af. We will never “media literacy” our way out of this as a society. We are about to reap the whirlwind when it comes to misinformation, disinformation, and informational warfare.

Read my new preprint "Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles." I argue that we should not only look at the depth behind LLMs, but also take the surfaces seriously with which they present us: as the principal plane on which we encounter them in the life-world.

📚Join us next Tuesday 7pm UK time, on Zoom for the international book club 'Meet the Author -> @hannesbajohr.de" ✨Gespräch mit Hannes Bajohr über Literatur & AI ✨ (genau, auf Deutsch).

Another great product launch from OpenAI!

This is why you see the Bank of England, the Financial Times, and so many more warning about the risks of all economic growth depending upon AI, and yet perfectly rational-short-term investors throw even more money into frontier model development. Correction is coming. futurism.com/artificial-i...

Cool :)

Excited to learn that @hannesbajohr.de and I got the Peder Sather grant to study AI and narration in collaboration with The Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen, led by Jill Walker Rettberg. Our goal is to bridge humanities and CS approaches to AI and narration.

Look who came with

“The new Elsevier AI solution will empower researchers to identify emerging areas of inquiry + funding opportunities, uncover knowledge gaps, synthesize literature rapidly, connect with collaborators + accelerate productivity.” Academia should’ve long ago ✂️ ties with such commercial vendors.

Who wants computers to make music that sounds human. That's so boring 😂

Newsom vetoing the previously approved transit bridge loan will be a disaster for the Bay Area This means deep cuts to transit, like BART trains only once an hour or worse Call the governor's office now and join the rally to save transit on Monday morning actionnetwork.org/events/emerg...

Say a prayer to those poor Europeans, stuck taking fast, reliable transit through their dense and well laid-out cities instead of paying an oligarch $35 for the privilege of sitting in traffic on a 24-lane highway to get to the Chili's out by the interstate

TIL that Moms for America, Moms for Liberty, and Parents Defending Education have signed the White House's pledge to America's youth to invest in AI education, which further clarifies how this AI education initiative is a political project and whose vision of education is being prioritized.

hey @theguardian.com this piece is wildly irresponsible! To post an "interview" with an LLM, with zero context given that that it cannot answer questions about itself, and that you've basically just asked it to generate some science fiction dialogue? www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

It's called fascism. Fascist regimes, like Mussolini's Italy, directly nationalized some businesses. American journalists need reminding that this isn't necessarily a 'socialist' thing. Articles like this don't help the public interpret what's happening in the US. www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...

Fun fact: even as UCLA is being extorted for $1B by a fascist government, its administration is requiring all faculty to install a “security” program that surveils everything we do and shares that information with the federal government.

“American Academy of Arts&Sciences reports 96.3% of humanities grads age 23-32 fully employed. Earnings in humanitiess comparable to social/life sciences, job satisfaction levels too. A serious mismatch bw actual employment for hum grads +general perception." www.mellon.org/voices/human...

The early bird catches the worm... 30 % pre-order discount for Günther Anders' masterpiece »The Obsolescence of the Human« 👇 www.upress.umn.edu/978151791265...

holy fucking shit

Das Gaza-Hunger-Experiment. Mein heutiger Text @taz.de taz.de/GHF-Essensab...

As the Max Kade Visiting Professor at Columbia, I was due to give a public lecture during Spring Term that I had to cancel after the abduction and arrest of Mahmoud Khalil by ICE/DHS agents and Columbia’s failure to offer any protection for its students.

Def miss the days when deep learning stood for something like 'the weird empirical science of real-world patterns that don't have nice mathematical representations but attract flexible function approximators'

JEDE FREMDE IST WÜTEND. JEDNR GAG IST OFFEF. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 6]

EIN HAUS IST STARK UND KEIN DORF IST FERN. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 3]

EIN SCHLOSS IST LEISE. JEDES AUGE IST OFFEN. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 1]

… quite enjoyed this conference ‘Chat Token Vector’ 🤖🧮↗️ … with @mttpsq.bsky.social, @hannesbajohr.de, @atg-dbp.bsky.social and many others.

Wir freuen uns auf den Besuch unseres ehemaligen Kollegen Hannes Bajohr @hannesbajohr.de. In seinem Vortrag morgen geht es um die Differenz zwischen literarischen und computergestützten Weltmodellen und zeitgenössischen Erzählformen. Der Eintritt ist frei. www.zfl-berlin.org/veranstaltun...

coming soon to a bookshelf near you www.upress.umn.edu/978151791932...

Insightful presentation from @hannesbajohr.de on the transformation of our relationship with language, post-artificiality — if the question of “authenticity” is increasingly difficult to resolve, the question might be abandoned, bringing us back (properly, I would say) to the “death of the author”

I’ll be in Berlin from mid May to mid July. Say hi!

This is one of the worst violations of research ethics I've ever seen. Manipulating people in online communities using deception, without consent, is not "low risk" and, as evidenced by the discourse in this Reddit post, resulted in harm. Great thread from Sarah, and I have additional thoughts. 🧵

A good time to remind everyone that Whoever Controls Language Models Control Politics and that you don’t want Meta or any other tech giant to be that Whoever hannesbajohr.de/wp-content/u...

Countercyclical theory of graduate school holding up pretty well.

Always a good feeling opening a box of our very latest books. Both are available open access, of course: www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles... www.openhumanitiespress.org/books/titles...

TODAY: Mon. April 7, 2pm ET / 7pm UK Join Hannes Bajohr with Audrey Borowski for "The Post-Artificial" Generative AI may have created a qualitative difference in the degree of entanglement between humans and their tools. Find out more, today! Registration free or by donation:

So OpenAI is actively marketing ChatGPT to students during college finals season in the U.S. We've talked many (many) times before about the kinds of harm that can come from giving over too much epistemic and heuristic authority over to these systems, but additionally, there's been at least three…

If there is ONE person y'all should read on OpenAI, it is Karen.

Ferris Bueller, still right on tarrifs: youtu.be/uhiCFdWeQfA?...

along with these other awesome essays, you can now click-and-read my thoughts about the symbolic order and LLMs, along with stuff on Kittler, Kant, and Kissinger [sic]

It's out, free and open access: Thinking _with_ AI: Machine Learning the Humanities. 11 essay on AI and how to think with it – by Peli Grietzer (@peligrietzer.bsky.social), Leif Weatherby (@leifw.bsky.social), Mercedes Bunz (@mrsbunz.bsky.social), Fabian Offert, Lev Manovich…