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bengrosser.bsky.social
Ben Grosser
@bengrosser.bsky.social
Artist, recomposing social platforms, AI futures, and interface cultures. Known for works like Demetricator, Computers Watching Movies, and minus.social. Faculty Associate @ Berkman Klein Harvard, Prof @ UIUC. bengrosser.com
When a chatbot’s words *are* its interface, how do we see the aesthetics of engagement they activate—and the politics they conceal? New article w/ @spold.bsky.social
dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
September 15, 2025 at 6:09 PM
New paper w/ @spold.bsky.social. We introduce new methods to critique linguistic interfaces of AI chatbots, theorize one of ChatGPT's central engagement mechanics as the "praise/prompt envelope," and preview artworks that attune users to see its aesthetics of engagement dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/...
August 25, 2025 at 5:46 PM
we need public social media
June 6, 2025 at 1:04 AM
so much pandering
January 19, 2025 at 3:52 AM
Asking ChatGPT for its take on OpenAI’s latest $200/month tier
December 6, 2024 at 3:14 AM
I asked chatgpt to imagine our landscape once big tech builds all the data centers they want
November 12, 2024 at 7:44 PM
November 7, 2024 at 7:46 AM
the NYT continues to escalate its war against the web. now they’re covering an area of the page w/ an undismissable fake toolbar that's really an ad. any tap on its “buttons” covers the content w/ a popup saying that button requires their app. hostile, anti-user and anti-subscriber behavior
October 5, 2024 at 8:34 PM
I distilled Sam Altman's recent "The Intelligence Age" essay down to its barest more-obsessed essence with a bit of redaction poetry. Read the whole thing here:

bengrosser.com/files/The-In...
September 26, 2024 at 9:09 PM
metrics metrics metrics
September 23, 2024 at 4:35 PM
March 2, 2024 at 8:10 AM
thank you for taking on its details. i couldn’t bear it, so i made a redaction poetry version of his manifesto instead: bengrosser.com/files/Techno...
October 18, 2023 at 2:16 PM
Simplified for you --> Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto as redaction poetry. See the whole work here: bengrosser.com/files/Techno...
October 17, 2023 at 1:35 PM
this is now my screen many times a day: web searches that lead to protesting communities on reddit. all carelessly triggered by reddit’s CEO in search of endless profit

we need a world without capitalism to be sure, but to get there we first need an internet without capitalism
June 17, 2023 at 10:36 PM