Dieuwertje Luitse

🚨The Critical AI Seminar Series returns in 2025/2026 ✨ This year we will have four talks and are beyond excited to welcome @amoorelouise.bsky.social & @alexcampolo.bsky.social, Fabian Offert, Helene Ratner & @nannathylstrup.bsky.social and @thaophan.bsky.social ✨ Sign up: bit.ly/uvacriticala...

🚨 New in Big Data & Society 🚨 “Artificial intelligence, conceptions of distillation and the reframing of reasoning” by David Beer and @bnjacobsen.bsky.social. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/.... #AI #reasoning #DeepSeeek #ML

✨ New in Big Data & Society ✨ “Making machine learning good enough – studying the political endeavour of finding ‘right’ metrics and thresholds” by @annaschjoett.bsky.social and Tobias Blanke. 🔓: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... #machinelearning #goodenough #MLevaluation

How do researchers, journalists & artists work with the Wayback Machine? At a recent gathering in Amsterdam, we explored how web archives support digital investigations, platform research & media art — and how we can build better tools & collaborations. 👉 www.internetarchive.eu/2026/02/18/w...

✨Welcoming Fabian Offer for the next #CriticalAI Seminar (online) on his upcoming book "Vector Media" on January 13, 2026 5:30-7 PM (Amsterdam)✨ The talk presents a new history and theory of the vector space in contemporary #AI systems 🗓️ Register here: www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/2-cri...

CfP ✨Consider submitting to this fantastic panel on Deep Learning and Culture at the STS NL Conference ✨ Organised by @louravn.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social Dasha Simons, Paula Helm and Tobias Blanke (@d-eepculture.bsky.social)

‪🇬🇧 New RESET call for papers on "Towards New Social and Historical Studies of Artificial Intelligence"! A special issue edited by @vgoujon.bsky.social, Mathilde Fichen and @alexcampolo.bsky.social One-page abstracts are due by January 16, 2026: journals.openedition.org/reset/6250

I have a new paper out in @jhokjournal.bsky.social - "Loss: A notion of error in machine learning." It attempts to draw some wider historical comparisons than are perhaps usual. I would love to know what you think. journalhistoryknowledge.org/article/view...

❗ We are urgently looking for a new Lecturer in Cultural Data & AI at the University of Amsterdam: werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies... The deadline for applying is very soon: Jan 4th. You’ll work with @tpoell.bsky.social, @riederb.bsky.social, @dluitse.bsky.social, @louravn.bsky.social, me, & more

We are excited to report that we have started developing our first *Little Tools of Difference*. While deep learning has been driven by a culture of uniformity, we asked: What if we used these same state-of-the-art architectures to do the opposite? More prototypes are coming soon, so stay tuned!

Excited to announce @leverhulmecal.bsky.social posts - we are looking for 7 interdisciplinary fellows to join our Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life, closing date 30 January 2026 (1/3) durham.taleo.net/careersectio...

With @best.wel.moe and @nieuwsuur.nl, we studied Google's AI Overviews for political searches in the NL. We found that larger parties often benefit and that Google changed its use of AI Overviews *three times* during the run-up to the Dutch elections. Read the article here: nos.nl/nieuwsuur/ar...

Our article on the politics of AI prompts is out now @econsocjournal.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.... 1/n

✨excited to start my UKRI AI Metascience fellowship, where I’ll examine how AI-generated synthetic data is (re)shaping medical research cultures and knowledge practices. Super happy to be staying at Durham University with @amoorelouise.bsky.social as my mentor! www.ukri.org/news/interna...

Super fun to contribute to this brief interview with Terminally Online, a student-led organization on New Media at the University of Amsterdam. We spoke about my wonderful team‘s research (@d-eepculture.bsky.social), who inspires me, and some of my own work. 🔗: www.linkedin.com/pulse/interv...

"What is digital about abstraction?" - new chapter by @riederb.bsky.social arxiv.org/abs/2508.18181

I am very excited and honoured to be the recipient of an ERC Starting Grant, starting January 2026 🔆 @erc.europa.eu. The five-year project will explore the broader social, political, and ethical implications of training algorithmic models on synthetic data. www.york.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

I'm excited to share the final cover for Silicon Empires and very grateful for the kind words that others have offered. Pre-order here: www.amazon.co.uk/Silicon-Empi...

I have a new article out: "Do artifacts have political economy?" It's a riff on an old argument by Langdon Winner about the embedding of politics in technology #STS #sociology #technoscience #technology #innovation journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

📣 New article out 📣 in the journal Digital Society, where I reflect on the relevance, limitation, and future challenges of studying algorithms through the lens of their referential 'ground truth' datasets Available here: doi.org/10.1007/s442...

🎉 A lovely wedding present from Big Data & Society! I bring together an ethnographic study of AI practitioners with Simone de Beauvoir’s ethics of ambiguity, exploring how ambiguity shapes AI practice and ethics journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

⚡Very happy to see another exciting publication out in our Topical Collection of "The Politics of ML Evaluation" in Digital Society!

Then off to #RESAW25, presenting on the evolving audience data economy w/ @silvertje.bsky.social (Thu), platform histories panel (Fri) w/ @devikanarayan.bsky.social, @bumatic.bsky.social, & on technography for critical AI studies w/ @dluitse.bsky.social. 🔗 www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/datafiedweb/...

Mardi 3 juin, découvrez comment l’évaluation des modèles IA évolue et soulève un enjeu politique majeur. Une présentation d’ @annaschjoett.bsky.social et @dluitse.bsky.social suivie d’un échange sur le lancement de la collection « The Politics of ML Evaluation » dans Digital Society. Plus d'info 🔽

Our article on the metaphor of hallucination and its use by big tech companies in relation to supposedly erroneous outputs from LLMs has finally been published :) @skoopit.bsky.social link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Very timely and necessary critical intervention by @katschwerzmann.bsky.social ‬– highly recommended: «By embracing LLMs before developing any critical framework for their use in pedagogical and research contexts, the University allows itself to be governed by the contingent, ever-evolving ... 1/

📅 5th of June - Join the médialab conference "Social Science and Generative AI: Inquiries, Instruments, Consequences" A one-day event examining generative AI as a sociotechnical device and exploring its effects on scientific work, as well as its epistemological and social implications 🌐 Info ⬇️

1) ✨ Deeply honoured to be delivering a keynote at RESAW 2025 – The Datafied Web at Universität Siegen! My talk "Vanishing Points: Technographies of Data Loss" will explore politics & temporalities of disappearing data in our age of platformization.

✨ Very happy to share that my new paper on data annotation practices in affective computing is out ✨ link.springer.com/article/10.1... 🙏 thanks to the fantastic editors of this SI on the politics of machine learning evaluation @dluitse.bsky.social @annaschjoett.bsky.social & Tobias Blanke

#AI fellowships across all disciplines at King’s College London. Deadline 19 May 2025 @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social. www.kcl.ac.uk/jobs/111205-...

⚡Thrilled to see the first papers to our Topical Collection published in Digital Society ✨Thank you @alexcampolo.bsky.social and Allison Jerzak for your fantastic contributions! 👀 For more info and future publications, keep an eye out on link.springer.com/collections/... ✨

This came out of an excellent conference, organized by @dluitse.bsky.social and @annaschjoett.bsky.social of the University of Amsterdam titled - "The Politics of Machine Learning Evaluation." Look out for the other contributions to this forum, some of which are forthcoming. Super important topic.

I have a short reflection on benchmarking in machine learning, titled "State-of-the-Art." Beyond questions of construct validity and rankings, how do benchmarks and model evaluation produce orientations towards progress or the future? Open access: doi.org/10.1007/s442...

On May 14, we are delighted to host @whkchun.bsky.social and Matt Canute as the final speakers in our Critical AI Seminar Series. The seminar is online and open to everyone. To receive the link, sign up via the link below. 🗓️ May 14, 5:30-7 PM (CEST). www.create.humanities.uva.nl/events/5-cri...

⚡On May 14, we are delighted to host @whkchun.bsky.social and Matt Canute as the final speakers in the #CriticalAI Seminar, where they will expand on their piece 'How AI Sets Limits for Human Aspiration' (tinyurl.com/euufxzf9). 🗓️ May 14 from 5:30-7 PM (CEST) on Zoom, Sign up: tinyurl.com/yd3yk64d

New essay in @nytimes.com✨ With @richove.bsky.social I discuss gov data deletion of vital datasets and health resources as political strategy. Special thx to brilliant (!) @ktmac.bsky.social for our exciting discussions that has shaped this thinking! Thank you @erc.europa.eu for enabling our work

“Algorithms codify and preserve the past, but decisions imagine new futures. With our actions as the guidepost, we can use data-driven insights without reifying history for accuracy’s sake.” Our new paper in @cp-patterns.bsky.social ! www.cell.com/patterns/ful...

📢 interested in how AI (re)enacts norms in medicine? Join this workshop I’m organising with @benedetta.bsky.social, @alexcampolo.bsky.social and @chogberg.bsky.social, supported by @amoorelouise.bsky.social & AlgoSoc - contact us for more info We can help with travel costs for PhD students/ECRs!

On December 17 & 18, we are organizing a conference at the University of Amsterdam on GenAI & Creative Practices. We are very much looking forward to your proposals for papers, panels, roundtables and fishbowls!! CfP: rdt.uva.nl/genai--creat... Deadline proposals: 26 May

dear machine learners, “hallucination” are not “incorrect facts”. try “incorrect statements”, “lies” or “made up bs” instead. the very idea of an “incorrect fact” is an oxymoron and intellectually deceptive thank you!

Yes! We have an article coming out on the term hallucination in LLM documentation soon, one of the claims is that the term itself is made to relieve the creators from the moral burden and responsibility of spreading lies, because the term hallucination is not morally loaded, it "happens unwillingly"

@amoorelouise.bsky.social will lead the Leverhulme Centre for Algorithmic Life @geogdurham.bsky.social @durham-university.bsky.social, which aims to change the way we understand and study the interaction between people, machine learning and AI algorithms.