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Coming tomorrow to Canvas, if your university subscribes at the Canvas Next tier (IDK what that is either) and your IT department enables "Ignite AI." community.instructure.com/en/discussio...
This from @laurenfklein.bsky.social et al.? arxiv.org/abs/2502.19190
I have achieved peak Textpocalypse, having now been quoted in an article about AI slop that is itself AI slop (and clearly ripped off from Jill LaPore’s recent NYer piece). eu.36kr.com/en/p/3823865...
So the Rosenbaum FUTURE OF TRUTH thing is appalling, but let’s not pretend this is an aberration: the over the fence talk I hear is that full on AI is now the norm in trade nonfiction.
A thing we’re seeing with the encroachment of AI on services like Google search is a highly counterintuitive displacement of the list—an information genre honed over millennia—by discursive prose. In the distinction popularized long ago by Lev Manovich, narrative is triumphing over database.