Today is Shyrin and Kirsti’s funeral.
I wrote a long post but deleted it. Quiet.
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Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Today is Shyrin and Kirsti’s funeral.
I wrote a long post but deleted it. Quiet.
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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 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.
The first session of the new Critical AI Theory Reading Group was great! We discussed Coeckelbergh’s new paper on technofascism.
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 the glass house at the Center for Digital […]
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.
I’m developing a larp where participants play guests at one of Charles Babbage’s Saturday night soirées in the 1840s. Here’s a sneak peak – I hope to publish the materials later this spring.
Mum
Was it that tough Jill?
vika
I’ll think of you all day.
Jill
As my daughter and I were walking home from the coffee and cakes for parents and kids at school, after the funeral, she said, “Mummy, that was a good day.” It was. So many people loved them. May they rest in peace.
jen
To celebrate life and mourn death together is a good thing, sad but good in the true sense of the owrd. Your daughter is wise!
Scott
I’m glad to hear that she took it so well. Closure can be a good thing.
Andy
Closure is the best thing. It is great to hear that your daughter thought that it was “a good day.”
Jill
Look, in the paper: a photo of my girl’s class singing for their classmate.