Aram Sinnreich

Writer of books, player of music, professor of media, tech & democracy

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Next time someone tries to tell you an LLM is conscious, send them this article by a principal scientist at Microsoft: If LLMS Have Human-Like Attributes, Then So Does Age of Empires II arxiv.org/pdf/2605.31514

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Huh. Apparently my work is among the top 2% weightiest of the people whose work informs LLMs. Not as weighty as Taylor Swift, Barack Obama or Adolf Hitler (!), but I guess that means you get a little bit of me every time you query a chatbot. Check your own weightiness: inthewe…

IN THE WEIGHTS intheweights.com
AI Weekly's analysis
  • Joey Flynn and Thomas Dimson, both former OpenAI employees, built the site, which launched in June 2026.
  • The tool queries models including GPT-5.5, Claude Opus 4.8, Gemini, Grok, and Llama, scoring recognition up to a maximum of 996.
  • Appearing in a 1-billion-parameter model like Meta's Llama signals especially high relevance, because smaller models compress knowledge more aggressively.
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Slides for our @qutdmrc.bsky.social #ICA26 paper on AI chatbots’ responses to conspiracist questioning are already up on slideshare, of course, and you can read the full article in a special issue of Media and Communication: www.slideshare.net/s... www.cogitatiopress.c...

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