“I began writing this as a record of what it felt like to be a student then, as collective attachments to values—long recognized as fraying, with the knell of the next scapegoat, or horrifying…

Greetings from Read Max HQ! Today's edition is about "LLM-assisted" text and the writing that goes into it. A reminder: Read Max is a subscr

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“I think that if humans are still walking around in fifty years, and still reading fiction, my work will last that long. Beyond that, I don’t know.”

Abstract. Drawing on nearly a decade of research, this essay investigates the hatred of theory on the political right. The phobic fascination with theory is over a century old. Yet, in recent years, i...

The head of the International Energy Agency has warned that Europe has about six weeks of jet fuel left.

Abstract. Part of October's “Art Communities at Risk” series, Josh Kline's essay examines key structural problems in the American art industry through the lens of class, tracing their origins back to ...

On a weird few weeks of A.I.-writing scandals

Aria Aber left the Berlin techno scene over a decade ago. In this essay, she traces what nightlife gave her—community, politics, embodied knowledge—and…

Humankind,​ he told us himself, ‘cannot bear very much reality’. One way to escape having to confront that...

Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-existing text. Since the ...