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
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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/...

we need public social media

so much pandering

Asking ChatGPT for its take on OpenAI’s latest $200/month tier

I asked chatgpt to imagine our landscape once big tech builds all the data centers they want

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

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...

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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...

Simplified for you --> Marc Andreessen's Techno-Optimist Manifesto as redaction poetry. See the whole work here: bengrosser.com/files/Techno...

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