Filipp Sapienza
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Filipp Sapienza
@filsapienza.bsky.social
Writer, researcher, UX professional. Exploring how technology, myth, and culture shape each other. Advocate for open access and critical inquiry.
Voice AI models echo declamatio, a Roman rhetorical art of display that once replaced the Greek ideal of mimesis.

#GenerativeAI #RhetoricAndAI #CommunicationEthics #PublicSpeaking #DigitalCulture

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Mimesis, Declamatio, and AI
Rhetorical Thresholds I’m humanlike. I listen. I respond. I care about what you feel inside.Replika ad, 2025. When we imagine voice AI, we might believe that these machines invent, solve, emp…
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November 3, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Filmmakers stage the clash between Apollonian order and chthonic disruption. These cinematic moments reveal how technology, myth, and human vulnerability continue to collide in ways both comic and terrifying. #CinemaAndMyth #MythAndTechnology #AI #GenerativeAI

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Apollonian – Dionysian Archetypes in Movies About AI
AI Archetypes. Part 3 of 4. (Note: if you have not done so already, this will make more sense if you read Part 2 first.) The previous post explored how literature dramatizes the symbolic interplay …
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September 25, 2025 at 2:13 AM
AI promises clarity and control, echoing the ancient tension between Apollo’s order and Dionysus’s chaos. Tech evangelists frame AI as widening Apollonian power even as it remains bound to myth.

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#AI #Mythology #CultureAndTechnology
Apollo, Dionysus, and AI Archetypes
AI Archetypes. Part 1 of 4. This is the first of four posts on AI and Archetypes. As artificial intelligence systems become more integrated into daily life, questions arise about what is lost when …
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September 9, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Like the Seinfeld sketch where the girlfriend completes his thoughts, AI chatbots are “sentence finishers” LLMs work their magic by methods of statistical pattern-matching mimicing conversation. They are often called stochastic parrots. #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT technomythos.com/2025/04/22/m...
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Stochastic Parrots and Large Language Models
Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 4 of 5. (Note: if you have not done so already, this will make more sense if you read Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3 first.) Parts 1, 2 and 3 tra…
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August 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
Large Language Models transform communication by replacing fixed texts with probabilistic prediction. They unsettle traditions of collective meaning and risk fracturing shared national identity. #GenerativeAI #ChatGPT #TechnologyandSociety #Rhetoric #Literacy technomythos.com/2025/04/22/m...
Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 4 of 5.
Large Language Models, Recombinant Rhetoric, and Shared Identity. (Note: if you have not done so already, this will make more sense if you read Part 1 and Part 2 and Part 3…
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August 25, 2025 at 5:11 AM
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Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 1 of 5 traces how the shift from oral tradition to written text to AI-generated speech reshapes authority and what counts as truth.

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Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 1 of 5.
Introducing a 5-part series of articles briefly tracing the evolution of communication technologies from ancient oral traditions to AI-generated text, showing how each shift has redefined authority…
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August 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 1 of 5 traces how the shift from oral tradition to written text to AI-generated speech reshapes authority and what counts as truth.

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Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 1 of 5.
Introducing a 5-part series of articles briefly tracing the evolution of communication technologies from ancient oral traditions to AI-generated text, showing how each shift has redefined authority…
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August 17, 2025 at 9:42 PM
TechnoMythos traces the evolution of communication technologies from ancient oral traditions to AI-generated text. Latest Substack goes to ancient Greece and analyzes the shift from orality to literacy, and how this change impacted Greek self conception. #AI #ChatGPT #Rhetoric

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Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 1 of 4.
Socrates between Mythos and Logos
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August 12, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Reposted by Filipp Sapienza
Mythos. Logos. Technos. is a 4-part series of articles briefly tracing the evolution of communication technologies from ancient oral traditions to AI-generated text, showing how each shift has redefined authority, knowledge, and identity. Part 1 is live now on Substack.

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Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 1 of 4.
Socrates between Mythos and Logos
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August 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Mythos. Logos. Technos. is a 4-part series of articles briefly tracing the evolution of communication technologies from ancient oral traditions to AI-generated text, showing how each shift has redefined authority, knowledge, and identity. Part 1 is live now on Substack.

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Mythos. Logos. Technos. Part 1 of 4.
Socrates between Mythos and Logos
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August 11, 2025 at 4:18 PM
#GenerativeAI renders stereotypes. Systems like Veo 3 curate biases from massive datasets and optimize them for consumption. Where does that leave the possibility of real dialogue and #difference? #MediaEthics
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Hospitality as Interface: A Post-Colonial/Social Justice Analysis
“Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery,” or so the saying goes. The idea suggests that to copy someone is to honor them, to express admiration through mimicry. But this concept on…
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August 4, 2025 at 4:00 PM
From the beginning, democracy in America has been deeply entangled with literacy. What happens now that we have Large Language Models. #AI #democracy #literacy #nationalism #politics #LLM

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From Print to Prompt: National Identity in the AI Era.
The United States celebrated its bicentennial in 1976. I was a young child then, and that Fourth of July, our scout troop visited a historical museum. We dressed as colonial children (mostly by pul…
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July 21, 2025 at 5:57 AM
In an era where social media thrives on outrage and vitriol, a strange new comfort has emerged: polite, agreeable #AICompanions. lnkd.in/gF2PyvVv

#RobotCompanions #HumanAIInteraction #OnlineDating #AI #Technology
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July 8, 2025 at 5:26 AM
I read a book called Silicon Snake Oil by Cliff Stoll, written in the early 1990s. Stoll argued against the inclusion of #technology in #education. Now we have #AI in school. Was Stoll right? medium.com/@urbann_anim...
Are We Satisficing Our Way Through Education?
In the early 1990s, Clifford Stoll, an astronomer and systems administrator, warned us.
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June 26, 2025 at 4:50 PM