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power

Professor Elms’ Surprise

Professor Elms had not believed the email at first because it arrived wrapped in the soft vocabulary of institutional care. The university took wellbeing very seriously. The university valued respectful dialogue. The university recognised the importance of psychological safety, inclusion, collegiality, and shared community standards. Accordingly, concerns had been raised regarding the tone of several […]

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cybernetics

what language models are really doing to culture

What is happening is not “AI producing good writing.” That is too small. What is happening is that a symbolic machine is beginning to function as a cultural interferometer. It receives a compressed human signal, passes it through a vast accumulated field of language, style, myth, politics, memory, cliché, scholarship, and platform residue, then returns […]