Critical tech and literary/cultural AI. Also cats, letterpress printing, and tabletop gaming.
Commonwealth Professor of AI and English at the University of Virginia—
—but speaking for myself and in my own capacity here.
Rudeness will get you blocked.
Matthew Kirschenbaum
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Happy to say this article is now published as part of an overall fantastic special issue on Writing in the 21st Century. Just look at those contributors! (Plus me.) If you don’t have institutional access, would like a copy, and we are mutuals, please DM me an email address. muse.jhu.edu/issue/57010
*Did you ever *read* about the Treasure Island Stochastic Parrot? It's two hundred years old, has seen all the evil in the world, and screams obscenities
Looking forward to having this one out in SOCIAL RESEARCH in another month or two.
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Working with the MLA AI and Research Working Group was the highlight if this past year for me. I can’t overstate the care, thoughtfulness & commitment each member brought to the process. mlaai.hcommons.org/ai-and-the-h...
one could argue the drone strikes simply added a new layer of authenticity to the work
Until the book comes out, this is my fullest and best attempt to explain where I’m coming from when I sound off about writing and AI. tldr: the tech is actually very good, especially when considered within the frame of capital, and that’s very bad.
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Come work with me! This is a new position within UVA English, centered on the academic mission. Might be particularly attractive to an excellent student of someone in my feeds: universityofvirginiamigration.phenompeople.net/us/en/job/UO...
"CrankGPT is a fully offline and off-the-grid AI box (...) You can feel that load curve through the crank: when LLM inference and speech synthesis run together, the crank gets a lot harder to turn." squeezlabs.github.io/handcrank/
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Joy Connolly: “Americans have not lost trust in higher education because of scholar-activism or relativistic thinking, but because public investment in the system has shrunk, tuition is prohibitively expensive, and other priorities crowd out the student experience.” www.chronicle.com/blogs/letter...
Matthew Kirschenbaum
Apply for Assistant Director of Academic Programs job with University of Virginia dsUpgrade in Charlottesville, Virginia, United States of America. Student Services, Health, & Wellness at University o...
