'The Afterlife of the AI Author':

http://garyhall.squarespace.com/journal/2025/1/22/the-afterlife-of-the-ai-author.html

In 'The Death of the AI Author', Carys Craig and Ian Kerr endeavor to provide an ontological exploration of 'what an #author must be' by moving away from the figure of the romantic authorial self as rights-bearing legal subject. This figure, they argue, is a 'mythic' ideological construct that is also underpinned by legal and philosophical #liberalism. And, like liberalism, the #romantic author lies at the heart of both copyright doctrine and contemporary ideas of #AIauthorship too. According to Craig and Kerr, AI should not be 'treated as special-purpose #human beings' producing work-for-hire; nor should it be mischaracterized as a radically individualized creative entity capable of being the 'sole creator and master' of a text...

#art #genai #copyright #relationalOntologies #law #humanities #philosophy

In the process of getting used to this and sorting things out a preliminary #introduction:

Working as a Postdoc Researcher in #humanGeography at #HumboldtUniversity. Interested in the interrelation of #technology, #space and #power. Poststructuralist by trade, open for #relationalOntologies and #thingPower. Current projects on #HealthGeography and #DigitalGeography.

A separate account for the german side of the fediverse and academic working conditions: @hfueller

Short video that makes a graspable claim for #relationalOntologies and #processThinking. Good #teachingResource. (Author: Thomas Nail)

„Instead of understanding the Universe in terms of inflexible objects, Nail proposes that we view our world in terms of processes subject to constant change.“
https://aeon.co/videos/to-see-the-universe-more-clearly-think-in-terms-of-processes-not-objects

@ecologies
#ontology
#philosophy