Category: Allgemein
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New Novel: (Berlin, Miami)
On November 2, my German language novel (Berlin, Miami) – written in cooperation with a self-trained large language model – was published by Rohstoff Verlag. I reported on the making-of in July in Tagesspiegel (German). From the publisher’s description: “The world in Hannes Bajohr’s (Berlin, Miami) is all that is the case for an AI…
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New Installation: Prognostications
For the exhibition “Data Alchemy – Observing Patterns from Galileo to Artificial Intelligence”, curated by Liat Grayver and Adrian Notz at the Collegium Helveticum, I contributed the installation “Prognostications”.
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New Text: Dumb Meaning
I published an essay about what I call “dumb meaning” – the kind of limited, not quite human meaning that large language models and multimodal AI processes. While not meaningful in broad sense, I argue, it is not meaningless either.
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Whoever Controls Language Models Controls Politics
The problem with large language models is not technical, but political: It is that the medium of politics – language – is privatized.
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New Book: Schreiben in Distanz
My Hildesheim Poetics Lecture has come out as a book (in German).
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Max Bense, “On Natural and Artificial Poetry” (1962)
A rough translation of Max Bense’s prescient essay “On Natural and Artificial Poetry” from 1962.
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On Artificial and Post-Artificial Texts
This is a condensed version of my Walter Höllerer Lecture. It discusses the changed reading expectations after ChatGPT.
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Recent Media Outreach
My most recent appearances in the (German) media.
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New Text: Is it guaranteed human-made?
For Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung, I wrote about ChatGPT and what might happen once future AI models produce text that is no longer identifiable as machine-made. An essay on postartificial texts, Ouroboros literature, and the label guaranteed human-made.
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14th Walter Höllerer Lecture 2022
On Thursday, Dec. 8, I gave the Walter Höllerer Lecture at the Technical University of Berlin on “Artificial and Postartificial Texts: Literature and Artificial Intelligence.” Excerpt: “[We are] today already really on the threshold of being surrounded by texts that have been artificially produced – while at the same time we continue to grow ever…