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   Matthew Kirschenbaum (mkirschenbaum@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 01:29:40 JST Matthew Kirschenbaum

   Happening all this week online at CRITICAL INQUIRY, “Again Theory: A Forum on Language, Meaning, and Intent in the Time of Stochastic Parrots.”

   Contributors include Lisa Siraganian, Hannes Bajohr, Rita Raley and Russell Samolsky, Alex Gil, Seth Perlow, Tyler Shoemaker, Annette Vee, Ted Underwood, Kari Kraus, Caroline Bassett, Walter Benn Michaels, Steven Knapp, and Katherine Hayles.

   Read along here. https://critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/26/again-theory-a-forum-on-language-meaning-and-intent-in-the-time-of-stochastic-parrots/

   #criticalAI #LLMs #chatgpt #theory #AI #language #interpretation

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     Ted Underwood (tedunderwood@sigmoid.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 01:45:44 JST Ted Underwood

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     • Nabeel Siddiqui

     @nabsiddiqui @mkirschenbaum That's quite interesting.

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     Nabeel Siddiqui (nabsiddiqui@h-net.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 01:46:03 JST Nabeel Siddiqui

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     @mkirschenbaum

     Yes. It isn’t banned in another region though. I was traveling to the northern areas where it apparently was.

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     Matthew Kirschenbaum (mkirschenbaum@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 01:46:04 JST Matthew Kirschenbaum

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     • Nabeel Siddiqui

     @nabsiddiqui is that the Critical Inquiry website?

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     Nabeel Siddiqui (nabsiddiqui@h-net.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 01:46:06 JST Nabeel Siddiqui

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     @mkirschenbaum

     Apparently the Government of Pakistan finds your scholarship to be dangerous to the morals of the country

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     Matthew Kirschenbaum (mkirschenbaum@hcommons.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 01:46:07 JST Matthew Kirschenbaum

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     • Nabeel Siddiqui

     @nabsiddiqui you’ve come to the right place!

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     Nabeel Siddiqui (nabsiddiqui@h-net.social)'s status on Sunday, 02-Jul-2023 01:46:08 JST Nabeel Siddiqui

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     @mkirschenbaum

     I had wondered why I had not seen Against Theory seriously come up in discussions of LLM. I mentioned it to numerous people when they asked me what I thought. Looking forward to reading this.