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ARC DECRA Fellow: literary studies | digital humanities | surveillance | President, Australasian Association for Digital Humanities: https://aa-dh.org/ …

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.

What does consent look like, today? This was the guiding question behind the Potter Museum of Art’s Interdisciplinary Forum, CONSENT. Over the last decade, we have seen a seismic shift in society’s un...

The long history of scribes being replaced by machines, and what cannot be replaced by LLM imitation in current writing.

As AI overtakes the web, five writers reflect on how far it’s fallen and what comes next.

From the AI tent at Arendal.

Telepoetics

Before ChatGPT, there was the Plot Robot, Auto-Beatnik, and a century’s worth of schemes for automating authorship.

A magazine’s response to accusations of publishing AI-generated fiction points to a new phase in the struggle to keep literature human.

The controversy surrounding Jamir Nazir's The Serpent in the Grove, published by Granta, shows that reading is no longer enough to establish authorship

The controversy surrounding Jamir Nazir's The Serpent in the Grove, published by Granta, shows that reading is no longer enough to establish authorship

The poet and curator was at the forefront of US efforts to project its high art as forcefully as its military might abroad — an idea that now looks dead

A new divide is emerging: between workers who use AI at work and those who are managed by it

What would change if arts and culture were understood not simply as industries to be monetised, but as a public good essential to democratic and liveable communities?

In regurgitating the dominant scientific account of human evolution, LLMs adopt a particular stylistic posture: one that privileges qualification over commitment, context over certitude, expansion …

Poetry, perhaps more than any other genre, shows us how important it is to connect with a real human presence.

Writers and machines have been in a quiet standoff for decades. ChatGPT has just made it impossible to ignore.

Why can’t language models write well?

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In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyz…

Five writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature.

College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD)

Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

Is AI a utopian promise or an existential threat? These 11 must-read books — featuring Annie Bot, Empire of AI and UnWorld — navigate the turbulent landscape of deepfakes, algorithmic bias, and the qu...

AI-generated “slop” is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop which deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social funct...

Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues that watching AIs converse intensifies our natural bias to see minds and intentions where none exist.

Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.