Antiqua Et Nova

New #Vatican document on #ArticificialIntelligence just dropped. https://www.vatican.va/roman_curia/congregations/cfaith/documents/rc_ddf_doc_20250128_antiqua-et-nova_en.html

Read about the work and thoughts of a 'Senior Data Quality Specialist', also known as an AI Annotator or a human writer employed to manually write for AI because so-called 'Artificial Intelligence' of data + algorithm does not work. AI is simply another form of Human Intelligence
#ArticificialIntelligence #AI

And contemplate on something known by all writers: "Writing an SEO blog about the “internet of things” might not take much research, pride or skill; but it usually pays far better than poetry."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/sep/07/if-journalism-is-going-up-in-smoke-i-might-as-well-get-high-off-the-fumes-confessions-of-a-chatbot-helper

I've just finished reading these 2 texts in parallel, as I grapple with #WhatMakesAcademicWritingHuman:

"I’m not going to converse with people who won’t posit my humanity as an axiom in the conversation" (https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/ai-artificial-intelligence-chatbots-emily-m-bender.html)

and

"unless we can be clear about the human [...], discussions of the ‘post’ cannot meaningfully be brought to a close"
(https://markcarrigan.net/2022/04/15/a-critical-realist-critique-of-rosi-braidottis-posthumanism/)

#AcWri #Humanism #PostHumanism #GPT #ArticificialIntelligence #SALAMI #CriticalRealism