Dmitri
@ddmitri.bsky.social
Lecturer in Applied Linguistics at Georgia State University. English language teaching, labor, and identity in higher ed. All cats are beautiful (ACAB). #StopCopCity. He/They.
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The point about LLMs lacking "voice" is correct, but imo the limits to good AI writing are more fundamental. I would sum it up like this: the very best writing "defamiliarizes" the familiar -- makes it fresh, conjures it anew, etc. But LLM outputs are an averaged rehash of the familiar, by design.
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai/p/why-ai-wri...
Why AI writing is mid
How the current way of training language models destroys any voice (and hope of good writing).
www.interconnects.ai
November 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
The point about LLMs lacking "voice" is correct, but imo the limits to good AI writing are more fundamental. I would sum it up like this: the very best writing "defamiliarizes" the familiar -- makes it fresh, conjures it anew, etc. But LLM outputs are an averaged rehash of the familiar, by design.
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ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
November 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
ever since I learned about three-cueing I've developed infinitely more patience for replies on social media. mfers literally do not know how to read. people are walking around conjuring random meanings into words they don't know, and they don't know a lot of words. it's crazy
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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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we should stop pretending people in academia are aligned with our projected political imaginations of higher ed. many CS/AI "luminaries" are obviously engaged in political projects to unravel labor power, belittle human intelligence & creativity, and enhance capacities for state & corporate violence
November 6, 2025 at 5:43 PM
we should stop pretending people in academia are aligned with our projected political imaginations of higher ed. many CS/AI "luminaries" are obviously engaged in political projects to unravel labor power, belittle human intelligence & creativity, and enhance capacities for state & corporate violence
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Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Bad AI supplanting human expertise is an issue that transcends any one field, but man—not many people on earth whose knowledge and dedication deserves respect like LIBRARIANS.
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"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture--
which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy
which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy
I suspect that the revolt of the bosses element of all this really is explained by: a bunch of upper echelon Americans really didn't like the cultural and workplace changes induced by Woke era, some portion of them were pushed into internet insanity, but most just wanted a shift slightly right....
November 5, 2025 at 4:17 PM
"the revolt of the bosses" is a good way of framing the elite reaction to woke 1. what's particularly interesting is that this isn't a reaction to an attack on profits--it's a reaction to changes in workplace culture--
which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy
which is to say, the psychic wage of hierarchy
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Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
November 5, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Hoping this helps our colleagues across the industry
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Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
November 4, 2025 at 11:49 AM
Dick Cheney won't see your mean jokes about his death, but Tony Blair will, hopefully.
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VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 AM
VP Cheney will be honoured with a 21 gun salute accidentally aimed directly at 21 of his friends
Seeing a bunch of cat accounts and animal rescues I follow post AI slop of pets in Halloween costumes bums me out as much as anything happening with generative AI in higher education. It’s depressing and gross.
October 31, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Seeing a bunch of cat accounts and animal rescues I follow post AI slop of pets in Halloween costumes bums me out as much as anything happening with generative AI in higher education. It’s depressing and gross.
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they buy themselves treats because they know without drastic structural changes, those will be the only treats they get
the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay
the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay
“At the same time, more than half of Gen Z members say they are struggling to make ends meet, yet a majority buy themselves a small treat, such as a pastry, coffee, or sweet, at least once a week. That can lead to overspending…”
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October 31, 2025 at 4:11 PM
they buy themselves treats because they know without drastic structural changes, those will be the only treats they get
the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay
the era of delayed gratification is over: the billionaires stole the gratification part, all they’re left with is delay
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A female sex demon is called a succubus. A male sex demon is called an incubus. A non-binary sex demon is called an omnibus.
October 29, 2025 at 6:11 AM
A female sex demon is called a succubus. A male sex demon is called an incubus. A non-binary sex demon is called an omnibus.
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It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
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I didn’t get the wording down precisely, so I won’t quote it, but one of the things that hit hard in the room:
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
October 22, 2025 at 11:58 AM
I didn’t get the wording down precisely, so I won’t quote it, but one of the things that hit hard in the room:
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
Reactionaries waging culture wars against the humanities have a more accurate account of our power than we do. And our humility is not admirable, but an abdication of responsibility.
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One of my favorite bailiwicks from Chris’s recent work, which he reiterated with tremendous force yesterday:
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
October 22, 2025 at 11:54 AM
One of my favorite bailiwicks from Chris’s recent work, which he reiterated with tremendous force yesterday:
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
Literary studies has an extensive record of producing knowledge that influences society, our research has always been generative, but is better now than it has ever been, despite austerity…
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I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things.
One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well.
Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.
One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well.
Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.
Well, the UNC Chancellor is out in Silicon Valley with an interview on this... techcrunch.com/2025/10/20/t...
The man betting everything on AI and Bill Belichick | TechCrunch
UNC Chancellor Lee Roberts is making big bets on AI and Bill Belichick, and he sounds like a Silicon Valley CEO while doing it.
techcrunch.com
October 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
I would point an interested reader and careful thinker to two things.
One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well.
Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.
One, the university recently built another top-down school without student demand or sustainable funding. It isn’t doing so well.
Two, I would point out that sports dynasties are built over generations.
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Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse | Published in Journal of Cultural Analytics
By Ryan Heuser. This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments.
culturalanalytics.org
October 13, 2025 at 3:50 PM
Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...
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I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
Sorry to be corny but the aerial shots of these crowds are almost indescribably moving and hopeful
October 18, 2025 at 10:05 PM
I didn't take pics but the feeling of being in a group of people with no visible beginning or end was so thrilling. The opposite of online anomie, and a living counterpoint to the wary, isolated, compartmentalized world the shitheads want to make. It's simple and obvious I guess but it means a lot.
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One of my fave photos from today.
Loved that the folks leading the chants were regularly including trans rights.
WHEN TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO?
STAND UP FIGHT BACK!
Loved that the folks leading the chants were regularly including trans rights.
WHEN TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO?
STAND UP FIGHT BACK!
October 18, 2025 at 10:26 PM
One of my fave photos from today.
Loved that the folks leading the chants were regularly including trans rights.
WHEN TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO?
STAND UP FIGHT BACK!
Loved that the folks leading the chants were regularly including trans rights.
WHEN TRANS RIGHTS ARE UNDER ATTACK, WHAT DO WE DO?
STAND UP FIGHT BACK!
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notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
October 18, 2025 at 6:54 PM
notice the general mood of the timeline? how everyone is in a good mood and there’s a lot less misery and dooming? how there’s a lot of “we’re going to beat these assholes”?
anyway that’s why these events are important
anyway that’s why these events are important
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You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
October 13, 2025 at 9:39 PM
You can't logic your way out of being burnt out. Unless you're me. Who should be able to do it and it's a personal failing that I can't
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One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
October 10, 2025 at 3:52 AM
One curious thing on this site about speaking out against the encroachment of LLMs is that inevitably you get accused of being anti-tech. I don’t hate technology. I’ve used machine learning in my own code before. But I also recognize that oligarchs are so hellbent on pushing this tech for a reason.
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men used to get unrealistic expectations from porn and women used to get them from romance books. now everyone gets them from playing immersive 100 hour videogames where an elf with a shadowy past comes to know love again through your shared adventure and offers up their glistening elf body to you
August 17, 2025 at 10:27 PM
men used to get unrealistic expectations from porn and women used to get them from romance books. now everyone gets them from playing immersive 100 hour videogames where an elf with a shadowy past comes to know love again through your shared adventure and offers up their glistening elf body to you