Situationist Cybernetics. Researching AI’s impact on culture at the University of Cambridge Digital Humanities. Affiliated Researcher, Machine Visual Culture Research Group (Max Planck Institute). Critical but curious. Aim to be kind. cyberneticforests.com
Eryk Salvaggio
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Super excited for our CRAFT workshop on trans AI policy at FAccT, co-organized w @jhereia.bsky.social & @anabrandusescu.bsky.social, come join us if you're at the conference!
More details here: programs.sigchi.org/facct/2026/p...
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The best models are good at ensuring the resemblance to text also resembles factuality, that’s the *symbol of text* being aligned with the *symbols in text*.
Lawyers on both sides of this case either admitted to directly using AI or admitted to rubber stamping legal briefs that had been prepared with AI without reviewing them.
Some of the lawyers involved were unaware that cases could be hallucinated.
www.404media.co/judge-learns...
Reaffirms the value of teaching the writing _process_ as Peter Elbow advocated in Writing With Power.
Eryk Salvaggio
It’s possible too that cognitive debt is useful, if you have any intention of digging out of it. Fact checking generated text as a way into the actual literature / knowledge is probably quite productive (though I don’t think that it needs to be or even could be universalized in classrooms).
Court holds Google liable for false claims in AI Overviews. Seems significant.
"A regular search engine just points to outside websites. But AI overviews generate 'independent, new, and substantive statements' by evaluating and combining content from various third-party sites" the-decoder
