Amanda Wasielewski
@amandawasielewski.com
Art/media/urban histories | critical AI/DH
New Book: Digital Photography After AI: Continuity & Rupture in the Age of Automated Images (MIT, dec26)
Recent: Computational Formalism: Art History & Machine Learning (2023), Critical Digital Art History (2024)
New Book: Digital Photography After AI: Continuity & Rupture in the Age of Automated Images (MIT, dec26)
Recent: Computational Formalism: Art History & Machine Learning (2023), Critical Digital Art History (2024)
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Guys not everything is AI.
Ah nytimes is at it again… and this is the only voice representing a humanities perspective 🫠
February 2, 2026 at 10:51 AM
Ah nytimes is at it again… and this is the only voice representing a humanities perspective 🫠
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Read to find out about why i had to lie about the interior of the Connaught hotel
In research notes, @agri.bsky.social writes about HYPER from @coffeehousepress.bsky.social. necessaryfiction.com/researchnote...
January 30, 2026 at 4:17 PM
Read to find out about why i had to lie about the interior of the Connaught hotel
One of the major funding bodies in Sweden is using AI-generated images as thumbnails for the research projects they've funded and... the absolute absurdity of the "The Best ways to improve reading skills" project thumbnail
January 30, 2026 at 7:44 AM
One of the major funding bodies in Sweden is using AI-generated images as thumbnails for the research projects they've funded and... the absolute absurdity of the "The Best ways to improve reading skills" project thumbnail
People are already dunking on this so hard
First trailer for Darren Aranofsky's new AI animated series 'On This Day... 1776'
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
• Tells short narrative stories about the Revolutionary War
• Uses Gen AI tools, including tech made by Google DeepMind
• Has SAG voice actors
January 29, 2026 at 8:25 PM
People are already dunking on this so hard
I’ve been in a couple seminars with people in the natural sciences lately and it seems pretty common that academics in those fields aren’t seeing the problems with outsourcing a large portion of their work to chatbots
Imagine being a professor and admitting this on Nature.com:
"I used it [ChatGPT) as an assistant every day — to write e-mails, draft course descriptions, structure grant applications, revise publications, prepare lectures, create exams and analyse student responses"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
"I used it [ChatGPT) as an assistant every day — to write e-mails, draft course descriptions, structure grant applications, revise publications, prepare lectures, create exams and analyse student responses"
www.nature.com/articles/d41...
When two years of academic work vanished with a single click
After turning off ChatGPT’s ‘data consent’ option, Marcel Bucher lost the work behind grant applications, teaching materials and publication drafts. Here’s what happened next.
www.nature.com
January 24, 2026 at 8:32 AM
I’ve been in a couple seminars with people in the natural sciences lately and it seems pretty common that academics in those fields aren’t seeing the problems with outsourcing a large portion of their work to chatbots
This is the most detailed thing I’ve read about how and why the AI bubble might collapse
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
The Enshittifinancial Crisis
Soundtrack: Lynyrd Skynyrd — Free Bird
This piece is over 19,000 words, and took me a great deal of writing and research. If you liked it, please subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, ...
www.wheresyoured.at
December 31, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is the most detailed thing I’ve read about how and why the AI bubble might collapse
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
www.wheresyoured.at/the-enshitti...
Feeling this
December 29, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Feeling this
Mephistopheles Navidad my own little Rosemary’s baby turns 6 today
December 25, 2025 at 5:04 PM
Mephistopheles Navidad my own little Rosemary’s baby turns 6 today
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PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening.
mishmash.no/news/positio...
mishmash.no/news/positio...
18 PhD and 6 Postdoc positions at MishMash/Norway
The first round of MishMash doctoral and postdoctoral fellowships are now announced.
mishmash.no
December 22, 2025 at 5:31 PM
PhD and Postdoc positions drop! The Research Council of Norway funded MishMash Centre for AI & Creativity has announced 18 doctoral and 6 postdoc positions in arts and/or science. I’m a member of the Scientific Advisory Board and so pleased to see this happening.
mishmash.no/news/positio...
mishmash.no/news/positio...
Every reply to this is good
December 20, 2025 at 9:16 AM
Every reply to this is good
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Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 19, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Do not cite an academic paper unless you’ve read it
Oh damn — I hadn’t thought about the fake citations to Google scholar profile pipeline 🫣
And so checked out Google Scholar. Now on my profile it doesn't appear, but somwhow on Nelli's it does and ... and ... omg, IT'S BEEN CITED 42 TIMES almost exlusively in papers about AI in education from this year alone... scholar.google.com.vn/citations?vi...
scholar.google.com.vn
December 19, 2025 at 6:14 PM
Oh damn — I hadn’t thought about the fake citations to Google scholar profile pipeline 🫣
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I am pretty thrilled to announce the publication of Perceptron, a creative-critical reading of Frank Rosenblatt and his world-changing invention. I co-authored Perceptron with Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social, my collaborator and partner in all things. punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...
December 17, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I am pretty thrilled to announce the publication of Perceptron, a creative-critical reading of Frank Rosenblatt and his world-changing invention. I co-authored Perceptron with Rena J. Mosteirin @renamosteirin.bsky.social, my collaborator and partner in all things. punctumbooks.com/titles/perce...
My essay "Zombie Canons" has been translated to Spanish in Concreta journal - in a super interesting issue for the hispanophone:
"Canon zombi: inteligencia artificial generativa y la resurrección del canon artístico occidental"
editorialconcreta.org/revista-conc...
"Canon zombi: inteligencia artificial generativa y la resurrección del canon artístico occidental"
editorialconcreta.org/revista-conc...
EDITORIAL Concreta 26, Vectores operativos, o lo que la inteligencia artificial ve
Concreta 26 reflexiona sobre la enorme influencia que ha tenido la inteligencia artificial en la reconfiguración de la cultura visual contemporánea. Nuestro último número está editado por Toni Navarro...
editorialconcreta.org
December 11, 2025 at 12:37 PM
My essay "Zombie Canons" has been translated to Spanish in Concreta journal - in a super interesting issue for the hispanophone:
"Canon zombi: inteligencia artificial generativa y la resurrección del canon artístico occidental"
editorialconcreta.org/revista-conc...
"Canon zombi: inteligencia artificial generativa y la resurrección del canon artístico occidental"
editorialconcreta.org/revista-conc...
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🏛️How should cultural heritage institutions share data in the age of AI? Our new paper with @europeana.bsky.social explores when heritage data should be available for AI training. Part of the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI. Read more: openfuture.eu/publication/...
December 3, 2025 at 10:57 AM
🏛️How should cultural heritage institutions share data in the age of AI? Our new paper with @europeana.bsky.social explores when heritage data should be available for AI training. Part of the Alignment Assembly on Culture for AI. Read more: openfuture.eu/publication/...
Sometimes the internet still impresses me with its weirdness
November 26, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Sometimes the internet still impresses me with its weirdness
My new book, Digital Photography After AI: Continuity and Rupture in the Age of Automated Images, has a release date: December 1, 2026 from MIT Press 🎉
November 18, 2025 at 2:13 PM
My new book, Digital Photography After AI: Continuity and Rupture in the Age of Automated Images, has a release date: December 1, 2026 from MIT Press 🎉
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lol if I called my dad’s cousin ”my dad’s cousin” rather than my auntie, I’d get a right bollocking from her I’ll tell you that
October 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
lol if I called my dad’s cousin ”my dad’s cousin” rather than my auntie, I’d get a right bollocking from her I’ll tell you that
Everyone's sharing this but worth a share again
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
www.bbc.co.uk
October 24, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Everyone's sharing this but worth a share again
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
Your daily image fact check. This lovely AP photo is being spread around social media as an image of the French detective in charge of investigating the Louvre robbery. It's not AI but there's absolutely no indication I can see that it's anything other than a dapper passerby
October 23, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Your daily image fact check. This lovely AP photo is being spread around social media as an image of the French detective in charge of investigating the Louvre robbery. It's not AI but there's absolutely no indication I can see that it's anything other than a dapper passerby
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wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors
“With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”
www.404media.co
October 17, 2025 at 1:15 AM
wikipedia's data shows that AI is siphoning traffic away from the site, which is a danger to its sustainability. ironically Wikipedia is more important than ever to users who want reliable information instead of slop, and to AI companies that need it for training data www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...
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"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
Obituary: Farewell to robots.txt (1994-2025)
The voluntary compliance protocol that civilized the internet has departed, bids Henning Fries farewell.
www.heise.de
October 16, 2025 at 8:16 PM
"The protocol taught us that technology can be based on human values like ethics and morality. It showed that voluntary compliance works when all parties benefit."
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
On robots.txt.
www.heise.de/en/backgroun...
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Very excited about this forthcoming volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series! @uminnpress.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social
Exciting book out early next year! It will be open access 6 months after print publication. I have a chapter in there on shadow libraries as infrastructure.
Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Edited by @alanyliu.bsky.social, Urszula Pawlicka-Deger, and James Smithies
www.upress.umn.edu/978151791608...
Critical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities
How digital humanities can shape and be shaped by the infrastructures that sustain our worldCritical Infrastructure Studies and Digital Humanities reimagines...
www.upress.umn.edu
October 16, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Very excited about this forthcoming volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities series! @uminnpress.bsky.social @alanyliu.bsky.social @laurenfklein.bsky.social
When I’m in this critical AI/AI ethics bubble it feels like there are a ton of ppl in academia thinking critically about AI but then I go and sit in a seminar full of ppl in the natural sciences and realize how many academics are uncritically excited to have LLMs do their work
October 14, 2025 at 6:34 AM
When I’m in this critical AI/AI ethics bubble it feels like there are a ton of ppl in academia thinking critically about AI but then I go and sit in a seminar full of ppl in the natural sciences and realize how many academics are uncritically excited to have LLMs do their work
The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online:
Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
uu.diva-portal.org
October 13, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The 30th anniversary anthology PDF is now published online:
Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...
Read "What is Digital Humanities and what's it Doing in the Department of ALM (Archive, Library, Museum)? by myself and Matti La Mela here: uu.diva-portal.org/smash/get/di...