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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Just visited a fabulous exhibition in Stockholm on japanese yokai and stories surrounding them and their links to cultural values at the ethnographic museum.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Spend half a year preparing for a swedish national science grant based on a well-scored rejected draft from a year ago. Received this week 5 numbers (rubric score) with no further explanations as my score was not high enough for even a sentence of feedback. So feeling a bit bummed out.

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 25/09/2026

an ai system doesn't have a will, intention or feelings. nor the capacity to want or care. a neural network does not go rogue, escape, or rebel. just tech bros' narratives projected onto machines. and pls, don't mansplain my post to me

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Tom Betts @tomnullpointer.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Sale Klaxon! My Game "The Horror At Highrook" is currently 40% off, which is a serious discount! So if you have been intrigued by its cosmic clockwork machinations now is the time to jump in! store.steampowered.com/app/2836860/...

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Save 40% on The Horror at Highrook on Steam

The Horror at Highrook is an occult card crafting narrative RPG. Explore a haunted mansion with your team of investigators, summon dark entities, craft powerful protections, uncover the fate of the mi...

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Mark Riedl @markriedl.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Found a copy in Powell’s in Portland Oregon a few weeks ago. I bought it.

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That Oasis Dude @oasisdude.bsky.social · 02/07/2026

Hearing about Sony's decision to stop selling physical games made me so sad. As a game developer, one of my biggest dreams was to see a game I made on a store shelf. Physical games have a magic digital never will. Sony, please don't let that magic die. #gamedev #videogame #sony #ps5

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Summer is nearly upon Sweden, some nice walk today to get my head a bit to relax

View of a lake with blue sky and some white clouds. At the edges of the lake, forrest stretches along it's shore. In the foreground two rocks are visible and water reflections in the brown iron heavy water. In the distance a small boat leans into the lake from the shoreline.

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Andi Watson @andicomics.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

Everything I’ve published so far this year. More to come. All available from my store. Ship worldwide. andiwatson.bigcartel.com

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

I am wondering if the human review was really done by a human alone, or the ai use was simply not made transparent.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Spent the entire last week at #CHI26 in Barcelona. For me the conference feels too big and weirdly narrow in what was presented. I know that LLMs are huge right now but nearly all posters/ papers were about some take on integrating existing LLMs into some other thing. Barcelona is pretty though

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 18/03/2026

Just like in fairy tales, you follow the trail of the breadcrumbs and you will find the sugar coated house of the witch ...

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

It was nice having you over. Let's see if we can make it happen again soon :)

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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

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'AI Is African Intelligence': The Workers Who Train AI Are Fighting Back

Kenyan workers are still the underpaid labor behind AI training, moderation, and sex chatbots. The Data Labelers Association is fighting back.

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 10/03/2026

We're running a workshop at ACM UMAP on parametric modeling and design for complex interactive domains (game PCG, data/AI interfaces, interactive installations, etc.). June 8 in Gothenburg (in-person). If you're interested, send in a 1-2 page blurb outlining a position, demo/tool, or case study!

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ParaAdapt Workshop

ParaAdapt: Parametric User Modeling & Adaptation for Navigating Complex Interactive Domains

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Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.blacksky.app · 11/02/2026

We are demanding that EU co-legislators reject attempts in the AI Omnibus to remove a key transparency safeguard from the AI Act. We cannot open a loophole that would let providers exempt themselves from the AI Act’s high risk requirements with no transparency www.accessnow.org/press-releas...

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Access Now - A call to EU legislators: protect rights and reject the call to delete transparency safeguard in AI Act

We, the undersigned organisations and individuals, urge you in the strongest possible terms to reject the deletion of the Article 49(2) transparency safeguard for high-risk AI systems that is proposed...

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 10/02/2026

Video up now of the great AIIDE '25 presentation given by our student Jonathan Morse!

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Expressive Range Characterization of Open Text to Audio Models

YouTube video by AIIDE Conference

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

I get a 404 API error from my end, though I am also not using US coords :)

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

COMIC: What Artists Do

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

I like the bit about not annoying them :) For some people, just seeing somebody else is annoying

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

This looks really interesting. Seems primarily targeted at cog-sci and/or linguistics research, with Portal 2 just the example problem-solving domain, but probably also of interest to game-studies and game-AI people.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 11/11/2025

You are right with the whole toc but in their proceedings systems you can filter by topic and then it feels similar in scale to aiide. So yes, the entire catalogue would kill me and I also do not care about a lot of topics and still get interesting variety after the filter.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 10/11/2025

I had not thought about this, for me it is right now DIS,CHIPlay,CHI,TEI as I find lots of inspirational papers on the fringes.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

For some models this could be the shared user profile though, so the extra information the user does not enter into the prompt to create the soft prompt.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Yes that is true but the point is that for a project I am looking into, the outputs and the activations are available. I am also not entirely sure how well it works because I did not dig in sufficiently but if you get activations you should be able to reconstruct the input, not the training data.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

I only skimmed the abstract but if it is true this will open up lots of interesting work.

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Dave Kellett @davekellett.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

New York pals! Don't miss this one: @fredschroeder.bsky.social and I saw the traveling exhibition at Angoulême, and hooo nelly it was great!!

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Duroyan Fertl ᚇᚓᚑᚏᚐᚇᚐᚅ @dfertl.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

"Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its #datacentres’ water use… #Amazon executives warned that #transparency was “a one-way door”… “Amazon hides its #water consumption,” was one hypothetical headline" www.source-material.org/amazon-leak-...

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Leak reveals Amazon plan to keep water use of data centres secret

Amazon strategised about ways to keep the public in the dark over the true extent of its data centres’ water use, a leaked internal document reveals.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

It might have or need 4 of those ;) but what else does it entail?

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 17/10/2025

The key issue for me would be what you define as intelligent? If you mean perceived behaviour from a human observer, I think that is possible. Additionally, we attribute a lot to embodiment so we would need a cat-ish robot body as well.

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Günter Wallner @wallnergue.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

Thanks to everyone who has submitted to VINCI 2025! Looking forward to great program! Registration is now live at: vinci2025.games.cg.jku.at/registration/ #infoviz

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Not necessarily, I have heard that also from musicians and performers, for music I think your argument holds especially considering the high degree of Automation in Mainstream music for performance it feels different as genAI can't easily replace a performance.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

On my way to an Eutopia network meeting in the city linked closest to the image from within the plane ;)

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 05/06/2025

Last week we ran the 2nd in person meeting of the gametable.network cost action, the working group on procedural content generation for games met at the University of Gothenburg for exploring next directions and future work.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

The only coffee worth getting :)

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Hi Joris, I hope you had a good vacation. I can't dm you somehow, would be great if you had some time to chat.

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Mark J. Nelson @mm-jj-nn.bsky.social · 28/05/2025

Short post by @rost.me arguing that calling LLMs "generative AI" is misleading nowadays, since generating plausible text is really only one of many things they do (he proposes the term "interpretive AI"). rost.me/2025/05/27/i...

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GraphicsSci.bsky.social @graphicssci.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

Don’t forget to apply by Saturday! #SciComm #SciArt

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

@jorisdormans.bsky.social Hi Joris,just saw you are in bluesky what is the best way of contacting you in a less open letter way?

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Megen Leigh @leighmarts.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

Yesterdays painting. With everything happening right now, the best thing I can do to regulate myself and keep from going into overwhelmed shutdown is just paint. If something cool comes out of it awesome, but the act of painting to get out of this shitty brain space is what’s important. #artsky 🎨

Cave with holes in roof, trees grow towards the light, stream runs through it

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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 23/01/2025

Final adjustments to a procedural world created for the second workshop of the EMERGENCE - Glider project - www.plymouth.ac.uk/research/cen.... #unreal #gamedev #PCG #codesign #frailty

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

Spyros Samothrakis from Essex is presenting this

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

How to think about games as a way of approaching AGI,... maybe?

A person presenting something Infront of an audience looking at a screen.

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

As part of a European networking grant, I am visiting QMul in London. Not having been in the UK for some time feels weird but London has not changed much. The workshop is part of the www.gametable.network, if you are interested in boardgame research it might be worth looking into more.

A view of the London skyline from the top of a large building

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Swen E. Gaudl @sgaudl.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Met yesterday for a colleagues project on "ai, disability and work", it is interesting to see what biases current ai gpt models have. I also look super ready for Christmas break :)

Three people looking straight at the camera, on the left a white man with beard, middle and right white woman with red-ish longer hair.in the background a screen and office environment is visible

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Stacey Mason @stcymsn.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

I think one of the most frustrating things about announcements like this, as someone who has spent a lot of time on R&D teams in the game industry, is how many *genuinely groundbreaking* things get cast aside because they aren’t visually flashy and conversely how much money goes to stuff like this

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Alexander Doria @dorialexander.bsky.social · 05/12/2024

“They said it could not be done”. We’re releasing Pleias 1.0, the first suite of models trained on open data (either permissibly licensed or uncopyrighted): Pleias-3b, Pleias-1b and Pleias-350m, all based on the two trillion tokens set from Common Corpus.

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Marius Varga @mariusv.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Final testing for the Glide project in preparation for Workshop 1. I am looking forward to it 😁 . If you want to know more about game tech being used to combat Frailty check out the link: www.emergencerobotics.net/trailblazer-.... @sgaudl.bsky.social #gamedev #Frailty #ue5 #RaspberryPi

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