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Established Culture, work & education Signal 17d ago
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Texas tech artificial intelligence ideology brandon creighton

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Hypervisible Luke Stark Eileen Clancy 🧿 Matthew Kirschenbaum Michael Zimmer

““Professors describe the effort as a dystopian academic nightmare, in which ideologues are wielding technology to sideline subject-matter experts.””

““Some say the effort to ferret out forbidden topics is a dystopian academic nightmare.” A Texas University Becomes a Petri Dish for a Conservative Overhaul www.nytimes.com/2026/08/18/u...”

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Established AI research Research 9d ago
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latent diffusion neural economy paper

The Market in the Model: Latent Diffusion as Neural Economy

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Eryk Salvaggio Matthew Kirschenbaum Roland Meyer

“But my favorite nerdy observation is that Async is an MRI company — and the latent diffusion process is built on U-Net, which was widely used in medical imaging (I call this the move from corpora to corpus in my “market in the model” pre-print!) arxiv.org/a…”

2 experts discussed this · 8 posts
Eryk Salvaggio: The way these models work now, any mechanized “taste” (aesthetic preferences) operates as a constraints on what models produce; that constraint would be recognizable in images people shared. They w…
Eryk Salvaggio: Taste, as a curatorial instinct that balances novelty and familiarity, is already re-enacted by these models. We don’t recognize it as such but these mechanisms aim to “automate discernment;” LoRAs…
Eryk Salvaggio: Aesthetically valued diffusion-generated images exist, they just require calibrating the discernment mechanism away from default model aesthetics. That has to be rare to hold information. But look …
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Established AI field signal Signal 9d ago

mitpress.mit.edu

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Luke Stark Cat Hicks Matthew Kirschenbaum

“You could take a look at this as a replacement mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...”

“Nor are we lacking in actual ways to learn about what “some guy” made, or why people reacted to it the way they did. mitpress.mit.edu/978026205248...”

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Established AI field signal Signal 3d ago
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Course: Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy | D+F Moodle

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella) Matthew Kirschenbaum

“Join our open, free learning community 📣 Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy 📣 to explore: the rise of global authoritarianism; Big Tech, AI, & the billionaire class; how feminist & grassroots movements are proposing alternative democratic futures. techno…”

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Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella): Join our open, free learning community 📣 Technofascism, Feminism and Democracy 📣 to explore: the rise of global authoritarianism; Big Tech, AI, & the billionaire class; how feminist & grassroots mo…
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella): Some details: * The program runs Sept 15 - May 31 * It's free and open * We meet online once a month for 2 hours * We have exciting guest lectures * Lectures will have live interpretation into Span…
Catherine D'Ignazio (she/her/ella): This is a collaboration with my brilliant colleagues @beccalew.bsky.social @eriksandelin.bsky.social and Alessandra Jungs de Almeida
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5 experts · 17 posts · 17d ago
Ted Underwood Matthew Kirschenbaum Laura K. Nelson Andrea Lathrop D. Hicks
Multiple readings Concern & critique · 1 Policy & governance · 1 Opportunity & adoption · 1
Ted Underwood: I think it is possible to have this cake while eating it, thus: a) LLM text is often cogent and well-written. It is clearer and more concise than 99% of human text. (I used to teach writing.) b) Wh…
Ted Underwood: I do not want to read an email that the sender didn't write, or a blog post that they commissioned from model X--even if in my own work I find value in that same model. My rejection is not a judgem…
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2 experts · 21 posts · 9d ago
Matthew Kirschenbaum René Walter
Shared emphasis Questions & unknowns · 2
René Walter: Are interpolatable archives plugged into each other communicating?
René Walter: True communication happens intersubjectively, and AI agents are not subjects with intent. There must be an "I" transmitting an internal reality to a "You". So, what are thousands of AI agents doing…
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