Ab Sonntag kann die #EU auf Basis des #AIAct gegen #KI-Anbieter vorgehen, wenn sie ihre Sprachmodelle nicht ausreichend sichern, testen & dokumentieren. Experten: Regeln seien wichtig, aber keine Sicherheitsgarantie und dürften Innovation nicht erdrücken: sciencemediacenter.de/angebote/eur...

JEDUY HAUS IST LOXSEUNMDO NICHB JJDES AUGE IST LOXSE. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 20]

As of today: tenured!

If you missed Hannes Bajohr's Vienna Mosse Lecture last month, #mossewednesday is the day to get caught up! #UWHistdept #EuropeanstudiesatUWMadison The lecture is in German www.youtube.com/watch?v=5t0f...

Hannes Bajohr, "Wirklichkeit auf Abruf: Künstliche Intelligenz und die Welten des Romans"

YouTube video by George L. Mosse Program in History

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NISHT JEDER TAG IST TIEF. EIN WEG IST RAH. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 10]

"confused" 🤣

@pileque.bsky.social · 4w ago

"The KPMG report ... found that an astonishing 29 percent of them had no idea where the growing costs associated with AI were coming from. A third confessed that their own cluelessness about AI economics was a barrier to successfully deploying AI in the workplace." futurism.com/future-socie...

Bitte unterzeichnet unsere Petition gegen die IFG-Abschaffung! Das hilft uns dabei, Druck gegenüber der SPD aufzubauen. In den ersten 14 Stunden schon 120.000 Unterschriften!

FragDenStaat@fragdenstaat.de · last mo.

Die Spitzen von CDU, CSU und SPD wollen das Informationsfreiheitsgesetz abschaffen – einen Grundpfeiler unserer Demokratie. 2025 haben wir den Angriff der Union aufs IFG gemeinsam abgewehrt. Das schaffen wir auch heute – unterzeichnet jetzt unsere WeAct-Petition! weact.campact.de/petitions/sp...

NICHT JEDE FREMDE IST LEISE. JEDER TAA IST OFFEN. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 4]

It’s weird to be clearly living through exactly what was warned about with global warming and still have the concept treated as a future event or hypothetical.

Aus aktuellem Anlass mein etwas älterer Essay: Der Klimawandel: eine Ungerechtigkeit www.deutschlandfunk.de/der-klimawan...

Ethik und Verantwortung - Der Klimawandel: Eine Ungerechtigkeit

Dass der Klimawandel menschengemacht ist, sagt uns die Wissenschaft. Die Philosophie sagt außerdem, dass er ethische Probleme aufwirft. Aber was heißt das genau? Sind wir alle an ihm Schuld? Tragen wi...

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This is a fantastic opportunity: a Fulbright fellowship with the Center for Digital Narrative (@cdn-bergen.bsky.social) at the University of Bergen in Norway. Apps due by September 15!

We have the digital and physical galley available for those who’d like to review First Encounters with AI: Writers on Writing. Let me know, and I’ll connect you to the press editor

Nina Beguš@ninabegus.bsky.social · last mo.

The book is 50% off until the end of June: doi.org/10.3998/mpub... Also available under open access and free on Kindle! Another book in this framework, also on sale, is coming out in the fall: essays by writers reflecting on the entry of AI into reading & writing: press.umich.edu/Books/F/Firs...

SIE INNCKT IST FERNJNEVR SIE BLIHK IST AAH. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 25]

NICHT JEDER TISCH IST NAH. NICHT JEDER HURM IST GUT. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 14]

TMDMR WEG IST NEU. NICHT JEDES AORT IST NEU. [𝔡𝔢𝔠𝔞𝔶 𝔯𝔞𝔱𝔢: 23]

I am very happy that "The Fourth Memory," a translation of a piece on AI by Grégory Chatonsky and Yves Citton, is part of the new issue of "Transit," our department's journal. escholarship.org/uc/item/1wq9...

The Fourth Memory 

Author(s): Chatonsky, Grégory; Citton, Yves | Abstract: So-called “artificial intelligence” (AI) brings forth a new category of memory which recursively generates texts, speeches, images and sounds th...

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Second that! Just taught it and it’s excellent.

James E. Dobson@jeddobson.bsky.social · 3mo ago

Bound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social

Bound to be one of the most important critical and theoretical books on the meaning of neural networks (and not just for vision). Congratulations to Leonardo Impett and Fabian Offert @zentralwerkstatt.org! Freshly published from meson press and University of Minnesota Press. @uminnpress.bsky.social

This experience needs to be acknowledged. I describe it as a nascent probabilistic intuition for the style of LLM writing. arxiv.org/abs/2510.22162

Surface Reading LLMs: Synthetic Text and its Styles

Despite a potential plateau in ML advancement, the societal impact of large language models lies not in approaching superintelligence but in generating text surfaces indistinguishable from human writi...

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Shannon Vallor@shannonvallor.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Just quit reading a CNN article that was so obviously ChatGPT written that I started to get queasy. Chatbot writing is now for me experienced as having a literal flavour - saccharine with a bitter hint of aluminum

thinking about Hannes Bajohr on Post Artificial writing: But if there is no surefire method to prove the human origin of a text, what happens next? My proposal is that we might finally enter a phase of what I call post-artificial writing, in which the difference between “natural” and “artificial”…

Rob Horning@robhorning.bsky.social · 6mo ago

a.k.a. truth and falsity in their ultramoral sense carrier-bag.net/vectofascism...

“Robot dog guarding the data center” is the cherry on top of your dystopian sundae.

Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers | Fortune

AI companies are turning to quadruped robots, better known as “robot dogs” for security solutions to protect their vast data centers.

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Meaning of AI conference at University of Chicago end of February with me, Leif Weatherby, Yuk Hui, Nan Z Da, N. Katherine Hayles, Hannes Bajohr, James Duesterberg, Anastasia Berg. Will be streamed and extremely rockin

This is a genuinely huge, sweeping victory today for the University of California—or rather, for us, its faculty, acting through our faculty associations, while the UC itself maintained a strict policy of deer-in-headlights silence. The Trump admin has given up its appeal of a powerful injunction:

Trump administration drops appeal of court order blocking $1.2-billion UCLA settlement

The Trump administration dropped its appeal of a major higher education case in which a federal judge blocked its $1.2-billion settlement proposal to UCLA over alleged civil rights violations. It will...

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Just a reminder that the UC system was not a party in this litigation. Faculty, staff and the @aaup.org fought on their own. UCLA, and the entire UC system, should be ashamed of themselves, and their leaders should be reminded of their submissives every day.

Jaweed Kaleem@jaweedkaleem.bsky.social · 6mo ago

NEW: The Trump administration has dropped its appeal of a federal court order blocking its $1.2-billion settlement demand to UCLA over alleged campus civil rights violations: www.latimes.com/california/s...

The discussion of "style" in LLMs from a linguistic perspective Simon Meier-Vieracker presents, is fascinating; it also shows that a complex notion of style that is not predicated on intention is still pending: dp.jfml.org/wp-content/u...

The recording of my book chat on Artificial Humanities at Townsend Center for Humanities is now available: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yLM... @uofmpress.bsky.social

Nina Beguš Book Chat

YouTube video by Townsend Center for the Humanities

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Wash DC AI/DH/E-LIT folks, the always worthwhile @hannesbajohr.de is coming to town via @lillianyvonne.bsky.social, and I will be in conversation at my old gig. Next Thursday.

Reminder of the scale shift of last few years. When Musk acquired Twitter for $44 billion it was discussed for days. Yesterday he merged its parent company, xAI, valued at $250 billion with SpaceX, valued at $1 trillion and it was just a Monday.

this is hilarious

Kate Knibbs@knibbs.bsky.social · 6mo ago

X is hiring a creative writing specialist at $40 an hour to make Grok better at writing and a true LOL at the qualifications