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Pip Thornton

@pipt.bsky.social

Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM www.pipthornton.com

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Association for Scottish Literature@asls.org.uk · 11mo ago

Page Against the Machine @pipt.bsky.social looks at a project exploring “creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of artificial intelligence in the literary sphere & beyond” www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...

Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal

This essay by artist and researcher Pip Thornton documents and debates some of the outputs of ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI), a project which explored creative ways to demonstrate the power that hu...

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Kevin Williamson@kevwilliamson.bsky.social · last yr.

Head up to the Scottish Poetry Library and have a shot of these AI machines. Unique poetry receipts! ChatGPT's love rival! Poetry translation problems solved!

Pip Thornton@pipt.bsky.social · last yr.

There's been a robot invasion @byleaveswelive.bsky.social! Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖

Ed Newton-Rex@ednewtonrex.bsky.social · 2y ago

Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators. More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live): 1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇 1/10

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Miriam Posner@miriamposner.com · 2y ago

Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.

Jen Raso@jenraso.bsky.social · 2y ago

These findings are unsurprising. Much focus is rightly placed on student wellbeing - I see regular announcements about it - but little care or attn to faculty. We are often treated as a renewable resource, lucky to have jobs, and as though we have unlimited hours to care for everyone but ourselves.

Shannon Mattern@shannonmattern.bsky.social · 2y ago

"More than half of respondents said that over the past year, their job took a negative toll on their mental or emotional health. Nearly 6 in 10 said they felt 🔥 out bc of their work. Half said they needed help for emotional or mental-health problems... over the previous year."

Lincoln Michel@thelincoln.bsky.social · 2y ago

A great example of how no one can find actual uses for LLMs that aren't scams for grifts. Quite literally the LAST thing publishing needs is MORE manuscripts, especially low quality and unedited AI regurgitations. This isn't a problem being solved. www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...

New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone

A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.

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Louise Amoore@amoorelouise.bsky.social · 2y ago

I can’t find Beatrice Fazi on here yet, but until she gets here, her pretty dazzling new paper on synthesis in #generativeAI www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...

The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI - published on November 9, 2024

The outputs of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) are often called “synthetic” to imply that they are not natural but artificial. Against that use of the term, this article focuses on ...

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Pip Thornton@pipt.bsky.social · 2y ago

New batch of {poem}.py receipts for an exhibition - it’s startling to see how much G**gle can make from the word ‘Palestine’… 💰 linguistic capitalism is inherently political.

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Pip Thornton@pipt.bsky.social · 2y ago

🔥Next week in Edinburgh - Thomas Dekeyser’s reflections on making a film (@destruct_intl), and writing a book, based on archives of refusal. ALL WELCOME!

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