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Philosophy

Citation Disco: AI, References and the Loss of Provenance

AI citation failures reveal something larger than a technical flaw: a civilisation increasingly efficient at reproducing knowledge while losing track of how it became known.

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Philosophy

How to Use AI Better: Breaking the Cycle of Bigger Models

The AI business model converts new capabilities into dependencies, then turns the resulting risks, maintenance burdens and failures into reasons for further investment.

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communication

why AI-generated language makes us stop listening

At precisely the moment technology allowed us to express our own thoughts with unprecedented speed, ease, and fluency, people began switching off from the flood of language-model-mediated self-expression that followed.

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Philosophy

The Rapid Rise of Language Models

Large Language Models are gaining such popularity because the technology at the center of this paradigm is that which has a natural orientation towards the reproduction of itself and its own sociotechnical genealogies. Our commercial, political, strategic and colloquial as cultural communications systems are similarly aligned to the generative technologies because as complex adaptive systems […]