Cybernetic Forests

This post offers up a close reading of a section of the Stochastic Parrots paper, to make sense of an increasingly contested analogy.

Latest on "Rogue AI" (from today and up until now...)

Stochastic Flocks & Cybersecurity 'Pandemonium' 💡 This essay was drafted from my appearance on Mél Hogan's podcast, The Data Fix, discussing the OpenAI / Hugging Face hack.

When Accountability Goes Rogue 💡 I recently spoke with Dr.

What happens when AI image models meet social media algorithms?

Clarice Lispector, Translation, and Artificial Intelligence 💡 Nerd Warning: 1/5 (Low).

💡 Nerd Alert: I have a new pre-print up, called "The Market in the Model."

💡 Nerd Rating: Not nerdy but probably boring, as it is an attempt to respond thoughtfully to a social media conversation that I found challenging to address on BlueSky's very limited reply functions.

Against the Quantification of Integrity When the measure of language becomes its target, it ceases to be good language. 💡 Nerd Rating: 1/5.

Thinking Through Temporal Mode Collapse 💡 Nerd Rating: 3/5.

On the Valorization of Technical Authority 💡 Nerd Alert: 1/5.

For designers, who will choose for themselves and for the rest of us. 💡 Nerd Rating: 3/5.

💡 Nerd Rating 3.75/5: This post is about a late-19th-century debate in academic mathematics, but it's plainly written and relevant to LLMs.

You might not agree, but there’s a growing consensus, even among reluctant users, that LLMs feel different.

"Noise is the central image of Eryk Salvaggio’s Human Movie: Six Meditations on a Compression Algorithm.

An audio essay 💡 We are awash in slop this week.

Claims of “intelligence” in AI focus on function: if AI behaves as-if it has a mind, it’s “intelligent.”