Sonja Drimmer
@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social
Associate Professor, History of Art & Architecture, UMass Amherst. http://sonjadrimmer.com/about-forte (She/her)
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MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
www.artforum.com
For the latest issue of Artforum I wrote about the culture of “AI” in my sector of academia, arguing that a focus on what it does distracts attention away from examining the exploitative conditions that the hopeful rhetoric of its promise upholds. www.artforum.com/features/gen...
Hell yes my student brought her dad to lecture today and he loved it.
Medieval Art for All Parents!
Medieval Art for All Parents!
November 10, 2025 at 10:20 PM
Hell yes my student brought her dad to lecture today and he loved it.
Medieval Art for All Parents!
Medieval Art for All Parents!
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YES!!!!
"Linear algebraic sociopathy" (last post in the thread).
DAMN, but that's concise and accurate.
"Linear algebraic sociopathy" (last post in the thread).
DAMN, but that's concise and accurate.
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none
November 8, 2025 at 2:14 AM
YES!!!!
"Linear algebraic sociopathy" (last post in the thread).
DAMN, but that's concise and accurate.
"Linear algebraic sociopathy" (last post in the thread).
DAMN, but that's concise and accurate.
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Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ed Ruscha, OOF, 1962-63 www.moma.org/collection/w...
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That last line. Fintan O’Toole doth not play. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
That last line. Fintan O’Toole doth not play. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
That last line. Fintan O’Toole doth not play. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
November 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
That last line. Fintan O’Toole doth not play. www.nybooks.com/articles/202...
Does not matter how hungry I am. I live here until he decides to move.
November 9, 2025 at 8:51 PM
Does not matter how hungry I am. I live here until he decides to move.
Having gone full paper this semester, I just want to say to my students: I am sorry about my penmanship.
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Having gone full paper this semester, I just want to say to my students: I am sorry about my penmanship.
My chef tip (I am not a chef) is that if you take three minutes to make some form of crunchies (like sautéed nuts or pepitas with panko and salt), you can make any salad taste profesh.
November 9, 2025 at 12:12 AM
My chef tip (I am not a chef) is that if you take three minutes to make some form of crunchies (like sautéed nuts or pepitas with panko and salt), you can make any salad taste profesh.
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THIS. All of this, including thread posts! 🔥
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none
November 8, 2025 at 7:23 PM
THIS. All of this, including thread posts! 🔥
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this is the right frame
You cannot run the basic infrastructures of a functioning society- healthcare to education-on systems that cut out human empathy & negotiation. So we have to reassert over and over again that the problems aren’t glitches or errors—even big ones. The problems are fundamental, systematic, endemic.
November 8, 2025 at 7:07 PM
this is the right frame
This is why this is a problem for democracy. See my full piece on this here www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
November 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
This is why this is a problem for democracy. See my full piece on this here www.artnews.com/art-in-ameri...
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The whole thread.
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none
November 8, 2025 at 2:10 AM
The whole thread.
Our CSA has been aggressive in its squash offerings so we are a gourd forward household until further notice.
November 8, 2025 at 5:39 PM
Our CSA has been aggressive in its squash offerings so we are a gourd forward household until further notice.
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“Linear algebraic sociopathy”
Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
November 8, 2025 at 12:07 PM
“Linear algebraic sociopathy”
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"Casting [AI] errors as valuable for self-reflection without providing concrete examples of how that reflection has been beneficial does little more than create a permission structure for the failures of this technology." www.artforum.com/features/gen...
MACHINE YEARNING
Sonja Drimmer critically examines art historians’ recent embrace of generative AI as a tool for humanities research.
www.artforum.com
November 8, 2025 at 5:23 AM
"Casting [AI] errors as valuable for self-reflection without providing concrete examples of how that reflection has been beneficial does little more than create a permission structure for the failures of this technology." www.artforum.com/features/gen...
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Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none
November 8, 2025 at 1:51 AM
Identifying flaws in GenAI unfortunately offers a pretext for claims that perfecting the product is just a matter of time & money. So pointing to chatbots’ role in,say, suicides can only go so far if we don’t also identify the systemic, irresolvable lack of Gen AI’s human commitment bc math has none
What’s up fellow kids.
November 8, 2025 at 1:35 AM
What’s up fellow kids.
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Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
Explicit, explicit
scriptor una manu scripsit
quia canis in gremium eius dormit.
scriptor una manu scripsit
quia canis in gremium eius dormit.
November 7, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Explicit, explicit
scriptor una manu scripsit
quia canis in gremium eius dormit.
scriptor una manu scripsit
quia canis in gremium eius dormit.
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November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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Does it make sense for a Mamluk-era manuscript of juz' 16 to open with Q18:57 rather than Q18:75? Sharing the opening pages here.
November 6, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Does it make sense for a Mamluk-era manuscript of juz' 16 to open with Q18:57 rather than Q18:75? Sharing the opening pages here.
Explicit, explicit
scriptrix una manum scripsit
quia canis in gremium eium dormit.
[someone else can fix my Latin]
scriptrix una manum scripsit
quia canis in gremium eium dormit.
[someone else can fix my Latin]
November 6, 2025 at 8:08 PM
Explicit, explicit
scriptrix una manum scripsit
quia canis in gremium eium dormit.
[someone else can fix my Latin]
scriptrix una manum scripsit
quia canis in gremium eium dormit.
[someone else can fix my Latin]
Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
November 6, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Once again, @yaelrice.bsky.social and I published this article in 2020 so that no one ever has to debunk this vile nonsense point-by-point ever again. As we write (see the next post in this thread)...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...