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Ian Bogost

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All LinkedIn posts are slop. The AI-slop ones are, at least, more earnest in their sloppishness, because intention and outcome are aligned (if in a hidden way). Threads is like this too. (Bluesky as well, but on this platform ppl believe they exist above slop, which is slop's …

LinkedIn Introduces a 'Seems Like AI Slop' Button 404media.co
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  • LinkedIn added a 'seems like AI slop' option to the three-dot menu on posts; selecting it hides the post from the user's feed.
  • Chief product officer Hari Srinivasan said user flags will feed classifiers LinkedIn is 'ramping up' to detect slop and low-quality content.
  • Detection service Pangram estimated 41 percent of long-form and 30 percent of short-form LinkedIn posts are likely AI-generated.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 16 ↻ 0 ↩ 4 · 11 from the directory shared this · 24d ago

This is really demented. And Google's response is incredible, amounting to something like, Every extremely misleading image that didn't need to exist in the first place made by our dearest Gooberboo can be verified to be fake by means of a mechanism nobody will ever use. We're…

Google Earth’s New AI Lets Anyone Fabricate Completely Bullshit Satellite Images 404media.co
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  • Google launched an AI image feature in Google Earth on Thursday and pulled it within a day after 404 Media showed fabricated scenes.
  • The tool used Nano Banana 2 to render text prompts onto real satellite data, generating fake bomb craters, nuclear sites, and protests.
  • Named experts including Henk Van Ess and Ross Burley warned the launch could erode decades of built-up trust in Google Earth imagery.
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View on Bluesky · ♥ 55 ↻ 14 ↩ 3 · 10 from the directory shared this · 23d ago

Sorry to post about philosophy, but as a panexperientialist who has spent 15 years failing to get that idea to catch on, both (pan)psychism and (pan)vitalism were bad ideas that are seductive because we humans are self-centered and like to think of ourselves as the measure of …

Could AI be conscious? theguardian.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 26 ↻ 1 ↩ 4 · 2 from the directory shared this · 35d ago

Lovely piece. But I found myself looking up at the clouds that have been looming above the situation for years: The mounting irrelevance of literary fiction; that reading has been "self-conscious, hyperaware, restless, and anxiety-driven" for years; the outmoding of style by j…

Why Reading Is Now Restless theatlantic.com
View on Bluesky · ♥ 10 ↻ 1 ↩ 0 · 3 from the directory shared this · 80d ago

I wrote about the AI commencement booing, which I do not think means quite what everyone is assuming it means (and which they appear to be assuming in the easy-thinking way that all thinking, with or without AI, seems to have become). Gift link.

Why College Students Are Booing AI theatlantic.com
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I continue to be startled by the "writing is thinking" thing ("popular" among the anti-AI set). Is it, perhaps, a weird perversion of all the Derrida people read for decades? The pure-presence error of phonocentrism ironically became a pure-presence error of logocentrism?

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