Pip Thornton
@pipt.bsky.social
Chancellor’s Fellow & BRAID Fellow @EdinburghUni. Critic of Linguistic Capitalism. @Braid_UK 'Writing the Wrongs of AI' (with @edbookfest) http://www.wwai.info #PATM
www.pipthornton.com
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Page Against the Machine
@pipt.bsky.social looks at a project exploring “creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of artificial intelligence in the literary sphere & beyond”
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...
@pipt.bsky.social looks at a project exploring “creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of artificial intelligence in the literary sphere & beyond”
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...
Page Against The Machine: On the Poetics of AI Refusal
This essay by artist and researcher Pip Thornton documents and debates some of the outputs of ‘Writing The Wrongs of AI’ (WWAI), a project which explored creative ways to demonstrate the power that hu...
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk
September 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Page Against the Machine
@pipt.bsky.social looks at a project exploring “creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of artificial intelligence in the literary sphere & beyond”
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...
@pipt.bsky.social looks at a project exploring “creative ways to demonstrate the power that human words, poetics & writing might have in resisting the influence of artificial intelligence in the literary sphere & beyond”
www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/2025/09/page...
Reposted by Pip Thornton
Head up to the Scottish Poetry Library and have a shot of these AI machines. Unique poetry receipts! ChatGPT's love rival! Poetry translation problems solved!
There's been a robot invasion @byleaveswelive.bsky.social!
Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖
Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖
April 10, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Head up to the Scottish Poetry Library and have a shot of these AI machines. Unique poetry receipts! ChatGPT's love rival! Poetry translation problems solved!
There's been a robot invasion @byleaveswelive.bsky.social!
Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖
Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖
April 9, 2025 at 10:04 AM
There's been a robot invasion @byleaveswelive.bsky.social!
Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖
Do pop in and have a go on the interactive exhibits incl. the LEX-9000 automatic writing machine first debuted at the @edbookfest.bsky.social - now part of Edinburgh Science Festival 🤖
Kind of ironic that my Critique of Linguistic Capitalism was stolen to train a Large Language Model 🤯
New AI data investigation from Alex Reisner: the millions of books in LibGen used, per court documents, by Meta and OpenAI. Read about it and search the database
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 22, 2025 at 9:43 AM
Kind of ironic that my Critique of Linguistic Capitalism was stolen to train a Large Language Model 🤯
Get your rabid AI away from me. I’m exhausted with it all. Screaming into the void, we did this @edbookfest.bsky.social last year vimeo.com/1002527616
PATM EIBF 2024
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January 13, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Get your rabid AI away from me. I’m exhausted with it all. Screaming into the void, we did this @edbookfest.bsky.social last year vimeo.com/1002527616
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Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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December 17, 2024 at 6:19 PM
Today, the UK government announced a proposal to change copyright law - for the benefit of AI companies - that would cause huge, irreversible harm to creators.
More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
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More info below, but most importantly here's what you can do (wherever you live):
1. Email your MP. Template letter in 🧵 👇
1/10
#blackdoves was written by an algorithm. There’s no other explanation.
December 9, 2024 at 11:31 PM
#blackdoves was written by an algorithm. There’s no other explanation.
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Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
December 6, 2024 at 3:12 PM
Maybe one of the reasons there are so many unhinged academics is that in order to keep your job, you’re constantly required to tout yourself as a Scholar of World-Historical Significance, even as your office’s ceiling tiles slowly dislodge themselves to fall on your head.
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These findings are unsurprising. Much focus is rightly placed on student wellbeing - I see regular announcements about it - but little care or attn to faculty. We are often treated as a renewable resource, lucky to have jobs, and as though we have unlimited hours to care for everyone but ourselves.
"More than half of respondents said that over the past year, their job took a negative toll on their mental or emotional health. Nearly 6 in 10 said they felt 🔥 out bc of their work. Half said they needed help for emotional or mental-health problems... over the previous year."
Faculty and Staff Are Feeling Anxious, Depressed, and Burnt Out, Study Says
Students’ emotional and mental distress are taking a toll on professors’ health. Administrators should take action, the authors urge.
www.chronicle.com
December 4, 2024 at 4:19 PM
These findings are unsurprising. Much focus is rightly placed on student wellbeing - I see regular announcements about it - but little care or attn to faculty. We are often treated as a renewable resource, lucky to have jobs, and as though we have unlimited hours to care for everyone but ourselves.
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A great example of how no one can find actual uses for LLMs that aren't scams for grifts. Quite literally the LAST thing publishing needs is MORE manuscripts, especially low quality and unedited AI regurgitations. This isn't a problem being solved.
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
New publisher Spines aims to 'disrupt' industry by using AI to publish 8,000 books in 2025 alone
A new publisher has claimed it aims to “disrupt” the books industry by publishing 8,000 books in 2025 alone using artificial intelligence.
www.thebookseller.com
November 25, 2024 at 2:00 PM
A great example of how no one can find actual uses for LLMs that aren't scams for grifts. Quite literally the LAST thing publishing needs is MORE manuscripts, especially low quality and unedited AI regurgitations. This isn't a problem being solved.
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
www.thebookseller.com/news/new-pub...
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Had a great time with @pipt.bsky.social this afternoon talking to students about the fact that while they technically *can* use AI to automate some of their processes, that doesn't necessarily mean they *should*.
November 20, 2024 at 7:43 PM
Had a great time with @pipt.bsky.social this afternoon talking to students about the fact that while they technically *can* use AI to automate some of their processes, that doesn't necessarily mean they *should*.
November 19, 2024 at 7:18 AM
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The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
November 18, 2024 at 4:32 PM
The Journal of Continental Philosophy has just published my latest article, “The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI”.
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
I address the representational reality of LLMs through the philosophical concept of synthesis.
Online First PDF here:
www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
Reposted by Pip Thornton
« AI does not simply fall from the sky »
I like the title of my interview for the Swiss Young Academy a lot. Because it’s true 😉
➡️ swissyoungacademy.ch/en/uber-uns/...
I like the title of my interview for the Swiss Young Academy a lot. Because it’s true 😉
➡️ swissyoungacademy.ch/en/uber-uns/...
Anna Jobin | Swiss Young Academy
swissyoungacademy.ch
December 20, 2023 at 9:31 AM
« AI does not simply fall from the sky »
I like the title of my interview for the Swiss Young Academy a lot. Because it’s true 😉
➡️ swissyoungacademy.ch/en/uber-uns/...
I like the title of my interview for the Swiss Young Academy a lot. Because it’s true 😉
➡️ swissyoungacademy.ch/en/uber-uns/...
Hurrah for first interaction with @amoorelouise.bsky.social on here! That is was a moan about GenAI and language - even better! 💥 🎉 🤗
November 17, 2024 at 9:05 AM
Hurrah for first interaction with @amoorelouise.bsky.social on here! That is was a moan about GenAI and language - even better! 💥 🎉 🤗
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I can’t find Beatrice Fazi on here yet, but until she gets here, her pretty dazzling new paper on synthesis in #generativeAI www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
The Computational Search for Unity: Synthesis in Generative AI - published on November 9, 2024
The outputs of generative artificial intelligence (generative AI) are often called “synthetic” to imply that they are not natural but artificial. Against that use of the term, this article focuses on ...
www.pdcnet.org
November 17, 2024 at 8:56 AM
I can’t find Beatrice Fazi on here yet, but until she gets here, her pretty dazzling new paper on synthesis in #generativeAI www.pdcnet.org/pdc/bvdb.nsf...
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PAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ✊
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
LEX-9000
YouTube video by edbookfest
m.youtube.com
September 12, 2024 at 2:21 PM
PAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ✊
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
Reposted by Pip Thornton
We built a writing machine to parody ChatGPT. The LEX-9000 was launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival but got a bit overwhelmed when @ianrankin1.bsky.social tried it out…. Rankin 1 : Robot 0
September 14, 2024 at 12:30 PM
We built a writing machine to parody ChatGPT. The LEX-9000 was launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival but got a bit overwhelmed when @ianrankin1.bsky.social tried it out…. Rankin 1 : Robot 0
New batch of {poem}.py receipts for an exhibition - it’s startling to see how much G**gle can make from the word ‘Palestine’… 💰 linguistic capitalism is inherently political.
September 15, 2024 at 5:28 PM
New batch of {poem}.py receipts for an exhibition - it’s startling to see how much G**gle can make from the word ‘Palestine’… 💰 linguistic capitalism is inherently political.
We built a writing machine to parody ChatGPT. The LEX-9000 was launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival but got a bit overwhelmed when @ianrankin1.bsky.social tried it out…. Rankin 1 : Robot 0
September 14, 2024 at 12:30 PM
We built a writing machine to parody ChatGPT. The LEX-9000 was launched at the Edinburgh Book Festival but got a bit overwhelmed when @ianrankin1.bsky.social tried it out…. Rankin 1 : Robot 0
PAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ✊
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
LEX-9000
YouTube video by edbookfest
m.youtube.com
September 12, 2024 at 2:21 PM
PAGE AGAINST THE MACHINE ✊
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
AI RESISTANCE @ EDINBURGH BOOK FESTIVAL
19TH AUG 6PM 2024 www.edbookfest.co.uk/the-festival...
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5SI7...
I’ll be discussing Writing the Wrongs of AI at @edbookfest
at 5.30pm today. Also don’t miss out on the product launch of our LEX-9000 automatic writing machine! More info: wwai.info/hvm/ #PATM ✊
at 5.30pm today. Also don’t miss out on the product launch of our LEX-9000 automatic writing machine! More info: wwai.info/hvm/ #PATM ✊
August 10, 2024 at 11:49 AM
I’ll be discussing Writing the Wrongs of AI at @edbookfest
at 5.30pm today. Also don’t miss out on the product launch of our LEX-9000 automatic writing machine! More info: wwai.info/hvm/ #PATM ✊
at 5.30pm today. Also don’t miss out on the product launch of our LEX-9000 automatic writing machine! More info: wwai.info/hvm/ #PATM ✊
🔥Next week in Edinburgh - Thomas Dekeyser’s reflections on making a film (@destruct_intl), and writing a book, based on archives of refusal. ALL WELCOME!
March 21, 2024 at 11:22 AM
🔥Next week in Edinburgh - Thomas Dekeyser’s reflections on making a film (@destruct_intl), and writing a book, based on archives of refusal. ALL WELCOME!
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Putting my career on the line to make a run at Goliath: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Please share.
Please share.
December 4, 2023 at 11:36 AM
Putting my career on the line to make a run at Goliath: www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...
Please share.
Please share.