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my cactus is staring at me

new article-spell by ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna.bsky.social on academic writing itself as a gothic practice www.euppublishing.com/doi/full/10....

Her er gavelenke til hele artikkelen! klassekampen.no/artikkel/202...

come to Bergen to do your PhD in game studies? www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

new essay by ALGOFOLK's @mareinna on the #algorithmicfolklore of AI thought experiments

the ALGOFOLK Lexicon includes definitions of key terms with extensive citations, plus our own custom shoggoths!

Brenn du for korleis historier formar måten vi ser og forstår data rundt oss? Vi søkjer ein stipendiat i narrativ datavisualisering hos CDN, tilknytt @jilltxt.bsky.social sitt #ERC-prosjekt #AIStories og VisGroup på institutt for informatikk: www.jobbnorge.no/nn-no/ledige... @erc.europa.eu

Do you know of studies that actually evaluate use of LLMs in the public sector or other kinds of knowledge work? Teknologirådet in Norway just published a report evaluating their own use of LLMs, based on careful logs from 35 cases. teknologiradet.no/publication/...

I want to know exactly how popes write their encyclicals. Do you think Pope Leo is actually a scholar who has simply read a lot of digital media studies/STS/digital culture scholarship? Or does the Vatican hire scholars? Are such jobs posted to Euraxess? Or is the Vatican full of priestly scholars?

The paper is out! Please read it for hilarious examples of how untrustworthy AI-generated podcasts are and how everything is translated to a standardised white Americanness, and for a discussion of how customised podcasts threaten the public sphere. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...

In a Turing Test of sorts, it looks like a 100% AI generated story just won the Commonwealth Prize for the Caribbean region "for its lyrical precision and haunting atmosphere, the story stood out for the confidence and restraint of its voice." Published in Granta: granta.com/the-serpent-...

In a time without an academic job market in many fields, publishing is not really a push-factor anymore to get a permanent position within the humanities. This is not a hot take, we are simply too many publishing (great) stuff, and there are no jobs. There are no jobs. That’s about it.

still a few days to submit your abstract (essay/article/creative work) to the "Algorithmic Folklore as Transcultural Storytelling" special issue of the Electronic Book Review (@electronicbr.bsky.social), an once-in-a-lifetime crossover between ALGOFOLK/StoryMachine/EBR electronicbookreview.com/cfp/

well, it was about time

new ALGOpod episode with Santtu Raisanen discussing "convenience content" and other absurdities of algorithmic culture (subscribe to the official @cdn-bergen.bsky.social podcast Off Center!) open.spotify.com/episode/2AQ0...

new coauthored article from ALGOFOLK postdoc @mareinna on the mostrous agency of smart assistants csalateral.org/section/digi...

Trodde dette var spøk men nei. Nasjonalarkivet byttet ut nettsiden sin med KI. Som ikke akkurat gjør en særlig god jobb med å hjelpe en bruker som vil vite hva sidene egentlig er for noe.

In today’s episode of CDN’s podcast Off Center, I interview Hazel Wilkinson on how 18th century literary slop relates to today’s AI slop. This printer’s ornament showing a monkey copying out a book was often printed in books you might call “slop”… podcasts.apple.com/no/podcast/o...

This is why you need betterimagesofai.org - database of better images of AI, all human-made and free to use with attribution. So many great images here, I use them all the time!

mental palate cleanser. enclose.horse Day 37 💎 PERFECT! 💎 100%

Norsk media denne uken: Mindreårige kvinner, og gutter på 29.

Språk er makt - du er bra dumdristig om du gir makten fra deg til KI. Jeg er helt enig med @petterbb1969.bsky.social: Asle Tojes debattinnlegg har endret seg markant siden desember 2026 og har sterke trekk av KI-språk. Det er et språk som øker polarisering. jilltxt.net/sprak-er-mak...

Gaming doesn’t count as screen time. Gaming is books. Unless it’s on your phone - that is screen time. Movies are books unless they are Marvel, who produce screen time. Television is screen time.

At noe er basert på en tidligere tekt betyr jo ikke at det ikke har blitt brukt språkmodeller? Å skrive et debattinnlegg basert på en eksisterende tekst er en ekstremt enkel oppgave for ChatGPT.

Jeg er usikker på om «Jeg skriver som en chatbot helt av meg selv» er det gode forsvaret Asle Toje later til å tro det er.

Jeg skal debattere KI med Karianne Tung, Simon Velle og Hege Bae Nyholt i Studentersamfundet i Trondhjem på onsdag. Det streames også. Jeg håper risikoen ved språkmodeller i offentlig sektor, skole og kunnskapsarbeid kommer på politikernes dagsorden! www.samfundet.no/arrangement/...

Kanskje derfor det virker som Toje skriver mer eller mindre samme innlegg hele tiden. Forøvrig trenger KI minst like mye språkvask som andre manus. e-avis.aftenposten.no/shared/artic...

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En tekstanalyse av det KI-genererte debattinnlegget Aftenposten publiserte, den skrevet av den like KI-genererte "Kutz Schmeiner" - sånn i tilfelle noen lurte på hvordan gjenkjenne KI-genererte tekster. Bruk det gjerne selv: få ditt eget debattinnlegg på trykk!

huh so Google is kicking off the new year by pissing off knitters that’s fun

min årlige retweet, nå på bsky

"Solheim driver en bedrift, som tjener på å få kvinner som ønsker å bruke mer tid med barna sine til å føle seg som ofre. Som en motstandsbevegelse i et samfunn hvor de ikke får nok respekt. Som en hær. Og hvis du trenger en hær, så betyr det vel at du er i krig?" www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

watched the unfinished cut going round of the minecraft movie with some friends. there weren't any subtitles so we loaded the the twin peaks fire walk with me subtitles over it

TechCrunch writes that OpenAI will charge $20,000 a month for access to an AI agent that can do “PhD level research”. Maybe all the PhDs and postdocs recently fired by DOGE should band together and sell their services as “AI agents” - apparently some people will pay more for robots than people.

Saturday morning of being an annoying goof (me, not him)

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Tre år etter eit terroråtak mot skeive i Noreg, og i ei tid der transpersonar får skulda for alt som er gale i samfunnet, verkar dette mildt sagt tonedøvt frå riksadvokaten

RT and share your woods

Snakket på Helgemorgen om tiktok-algoritmen

"This much destabilization of reality is unhealthy" is a warning I take pretty seriously from this source.