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... to be stronger and more limber. [email protected] Copyright © 2024 Kyle Booten 2024 AI large language models writing support co-creativity proletarianization This word worker is at wit's end. The number on their email program's desktop icon, the one that refers to the quantity...

... audiences, contexualize occasions for writing that involve challenging the status quo, and support controversial hypotheses that demand cutting-edge analysis and reading against the grain.” In their contribution to this special issue, Stone, Goodlad, and Sammons delineate a history of interactive...

..., producing texts not only without writers, but also without writing (in Jacques Derrida's sense). The Phaedrus analogy thus risks justifying the swift adoption of a commercial tool that is poorly understood, demonstrably flawed, and reliant on laborious human interventions. [email protected]...

... or deployed toward fascist ends. One wonders exactly where in those councils and that solidarity go the vast numbers of people who do support and even develop these technologies and who do support fascism. These seem to vanish, as they often do in anarchist-based accounts of politics. Another way...

... students have begun to recognize, in addition to unreliability, generated text in response to simple prompts typically lacks a strong ability to engage with the meaning-making activities of real-world audiences, to contextualize occasions for writing that involve challenging the status quo, or to support...

... and goes on to elaborate rights for educators and students, including institutional support for critical AI literacy professional development; educator collaboration on AI policy and purchase and implementation of generative systems; protection of student privacy and creative control; and consultation...

... (for example, using the amount spent on health care as a proxy for the magnitude of need for health care). Even in cases when the technology was accurate, decision-makers used these systems to criminalize the vulnerable rather than support them. Predictive AI emerges as a cost-cutting measure more than...

... that her writing soars in a chapter on policing, when she discusses the harm caused by surveillance technologies like the Citizen app. Benjamin's previous work, Race after Technology , is among the most clear-eyed accounts of how data-driven technologies can embed and entrench patterns of social...

... not be more ill-considered. As we have seen, educators do not need to choose between enabling students to develop the literacies necessary to understand new technologies and supporting their critical thinking and active learning. “Despite what some tech leaders say,” writes Grose (2025) in her column...

... of the linguistic sign—they do not require the external support of either experimental science or experiential learning, only the connections of signs to other signs. In place of a theory about the relationship between individual signs and things in the world, some variants of this idea promote high-level...

... business models artificial intelligence AI technology In February 2023, Dr. Nasrin Mostafazadeh, cofounder of Verneek AI, joined us as a guest panelist for our event “AI Futures: An Interdisciplinary Conversation on Large Language Models and the Future of Human Writing.” Dr. Mostafazadeh gave...

... both image and text generation. However, by the end of February, Google was mired in controversy regarding Gemini's generation of historically inaccurate images, and the image generation tool was paused shortly after launching. See De Vynck and Tiku 2024 . From our standpoint as writing...

... Learning Research .” In FAcct 2022: Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency , 173 – 84 . New York : Association for Computing Machinery . https://doi.org/10.1145/3531146.3533083 . Biswas, Som . 2023 . “ ChatGPT and the Future of Medical Writing...

... in computing are tense. In “The Digital Computer as a Creative Medium” (1971), an early answer to the question of how artists work, A. Michael Noll breaks the artistic medium down into concrete steps through the metaphor of writing a computer program. Ultimately a reductive account of how the work of human...

... and the historical processes through which some signs become socially dominant. Material-technological realizations like writing, printing, or datafying authorize certain signs, adding to and sometimes reifying their social authority. Since language is thus deeply embedded in the creation of social reality...

... researchers (Ouyang et al. 2022 ) says the quiet part out loud. Large language models (LLMs), they write, “often express unintended behaviors such as making up facts, generating biased or toxic text, or simply not following instructions. . . . This is because the language modeling objective used for many...

... that generative AI shapes not only is supported by extractivist operations but also increases informational entropy in a way that makes it progressively more difficult to find sustainable alternatives. While many discussions of AI and aesthetics focus exclusively on the realm of art and the creative industries...

... predictions. 1. For similar criticisms, see Gary Marcus (2023) or Margaret Mitchell (2023). I am grateful to Lauren Goodlad, Iris Oved, and Una Stojnic for helpful feedback on this essay. My work on this essay was supported by NSF IIS-211926 and DGE-202162, by NEH RZ-292740–23 (Design Justice...

... office space, meeting rooms, internet, and administrative support. Many of Koga's start-ups had rotated through a L'Office facility at some stage in their business development: there were several spread out across Asunción, and they made up key nodes in the city's tech ecosystem. As an anthropologist...

... AI. To support this argument, I offer three propositions. The first is that hallucinations are evidence that LLMs should be considered a special case in the history of ignorance: they are epistemologically indifferent in that they deal neither in facts nor in fiction. 2 The second...