Opening of my book "Deceitful Media: AI and Social Life after the Turing Test" (Oxford University Press 2021). Four years later, it looks less imaginative as science fiction, but fortunately there's still the crime story angle...

Thanks to Mansa Narain for this taking the time to write this review of Deceitful Media:
journals.publishing.umich.edu/mij/article/...

Some things one writes require more work, take more time, but also make more fun than others:

Digital media and the banalization of deception
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

A video recording of the first day of the "Generative AI and the creative industries" conference is available here: media.unito.it?content=11304 featuring among others @katemiltner.bsky.social programme below 👇

Veronica Barassi reflecting on the “epochal transformation” by which the amount of data we produced skyrocketed… she identifies this turn with the emergence of social media. At “Il mondo nuovo” conference in Turin www.didattica-est.unito.it/do/avvisi.pl...