Sierra Greer's new novel, Annie Bot (2024) is a surprising tale of the life of a AI-driven sex robot, how its human owner uses coercive control, and what the response of the AI to such treatment is. In a sense its a cautionary tale about humans abusing sentient technology, but also oddly a story of emancipation. Its highly readable & despite your likely suspicion of the premise, its a very interesting read.
Got this email earlier and I’m still upset about it. Some unnamed “team from #Northwestern, #Stanford & #Cornell” fed our preprint through their “#AI" to generate "suggestions" on how we could improve it.
This feels like some really shit #HCI study that seems to think asking for consent is optional. And like one that wants to spin out into an even shittier start-up in the future (hence not giving any names of team members)?
Allen Grossman's provided the inspiration for this week's #blog post, which is chock full of thoughts on #poetry and #AI, with additional help from #Adorno, #PaulCelan, and other stellar representatives of #Humanity :