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Screenshot of a paragraph from a New York Times article published May 12, 2026. Text reads: "The price of tomatoes -tart bursts of flavor in salads and sandwiches — surged nearly 40 percent in April from a year ago on a combination of bad weather, high tariffs and climbing transportation costs."

Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing

A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text. Genre glitches occur when a word in the generated text is heavily associated […]

Top of a ransom note from Shinyhunters hacking group. Text reads: "SHINYHUNTERS rooting your systems since '19 ;) ShinyHunters has breached Instructure (again). Instead of contacting us to resolve it they ignored us and did some "security patches"."

Networked Politics University politics

UiB self-hosts the open source version of Canvas, so wasn’t affected by the breach

On May 1st Canvas announced a security breach, and then yesterday the system was hacked. The login page was replaced by a ransom note: if universities don’t pay up by 12 May, student data will be released. Here’s what the login page […]

AI and algorithmic culture Networked Politics

AI-generated images, fascist aesthetics: Dieselbrølet and Heimatstrom

My German is pretty dodgy, so when I first saw Heimatstrom on Bluesky, shared by Roland Meyer, a professor of visual culture at Universität Zürich’s Digital Society Initiative, I misinterpreted it and thought it was a far-right campaign. But no, Heimatstrom is […]

Photo of a billboard ad at Oslo S train station showing a smiliing conductor and the text "Du må ikke sove. Joda, bare sov du."

AI STORIES

“Du må ikke sove”: a floating motif detached from its meaning (or: LLMs can write Norwegian but miss cultural references)

There’s a new ad for the train between Stavanger and Oslo in Norway that uses a line from Arnulf Øverland’s famous anti-fascist poem Du må ikke sove (“You must not sleep”). Du må ikke sove, you must not sleep, the ad says. […]

AI and algorithmic culture University politics

Academics in Norway: Sign this petition asking for research-based discussions of how to use AI in universities

I just signed a petition calling for Norwegian universities to use research expertise on AI when deciding how to implement it, rather than having decisions be made mostly administratively. , If you are a researcher in Norway, please read it and sign it if you agree – and share with anyone else who might be interested. The petition was written by three researchers at UiT: Maria Danielsen […]

screenshot of Grammarly - main text in the middle, names of experts on the left with reccomendations and on the right more info about the expert review feature

AI and algorithmic culture Teaching

Grammarly generated fake expert reviews “by” real scholars

Grammarly is a full on AI plagiarism machine now, generating text, citations (often irrelevant), “humanizing” the text to avoid AI checkers and so on. If you’re an author or scholar, they also have been impersonating and offering “feedback” in your name. Until yesterday, when they discontinued the Expert Review feature due to a class action lawsuit. Here are screenshots of how it worked.

A diagram showing an LLM trained on training data, where it learns that a poem is the average of texts that are described as poems - this is NORMALISATION. The right half of the diagram shows a fine tuned model that has been told by a human than a rhyming couplet looks like a poem. This finetuned model has learnt that a poem rhymes. It generates a poem based on statistical analysis of human workers' reception of the texts it has previously generated as poems. This relates to sycophancy in chatbots - they aim to please.

AI and algorithmic culture

Do LLMs normalise or idealise? Notes after discussing Ryan Heuser’s “Generative Aesthetics”

A summary of yesterday’s Critical AI Theory Reading Group discussion of Ryan Heuser’s article about LLM-generated poetry, with a discussion of whether LLMs normalise or idealise their training data.

AI and algorithmic culture Networked Politics

Critical AI Theory Reading Group: Technofascism

The first session of the new Critical AI Theory Reading Group was great! We discussed Coeckelbergh’s new paper on technofascism.

A cluster of coloured pixels made up from random gaussian noise taking up the whole canvas, representing a not denoised AI generated image; digital pointillism

AI and algorithmic culture AI STORIES

Critical AI Theory Discussion Lunches

There are so many interesting critical theory essays coming out about AI these days and I want to discuss them with people. So I’m proposing a reading group, small and informal, bring your own lunch, some Tuesdays this semester from 12:00-13:00 in […]

Within the frames are people bound to their office cubicles; beyond them, individuals work freely from diverse locations, connected through digital signals.

AI and algorithmic culture Norsk

Norske forskere NRK kunne intervjuet om bruk av KI i jobbsøknader og rekruttering

A list of Norwegian researchers who are experts on AI, worklife, ethics and the public sector that journalists could interview next time they write about AI.

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