Tag: AI
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Two new projects funded
Together with Nina Beguš from the Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society, I received the Peder Sather Grant and the France-Berkeley Fund Grant for two projects on cultural AI.
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The Subject of Writing: On Large Language Models
This is a rough translation of the introduction to the collected volume “Das Subjekt des Schreibens: Über Große Sprachmodelle” [The Subject of Writing: On Large Language Models].
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New Volume: The Subject of Writing
The special volume of Text+Kritik with the title “The Subject of Writing: On Large Language Models,” edited by Moritz Hiller and myself, was published today.
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Rhetoric as Codec: Machine Learning and the Facilitation of Reading and Writing (With an Aside About Surfing and Riding)
This is a translation of a short intervention I was invited to contribute to “Zeitschrift für Medienwissenschaft”.
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New volume: Quellcodekritik
Today, the collected volume Quellcodekritik: Zur Philologie von Algorithmen – edited by Markus Krajewski and myself – is published with August Verlag (German). There is an Open Access PDF free for download here. From the description: Algorithms determine our situation. From Google’s PageRank algorithm to the automatic allocation of loans, their logic intervenes in our…
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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 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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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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Essay on AI Art
For Swiss publication Republik, I wrote about AI art. You can read it here.