David N. Wright

@davidnwright
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Open Education / fabrication in the Digital Humanities / Non-practicing modernist / Comics / Other cultural/historical stuff. Thoughts & statements are my own.
A bit more whimsical than The Memory Palace poems (https://mastodon.social/@memorypalace@botsin.space), but so it be. This one hijacks the poems written by HD and Amy Lowell in “Some Imagist Poems"... read all you want every 192.2 seconds here: https://davidnwright.ca/full_fathom_five/
Full Fathom Five (Are You Alive?)

New poetry bot underway...
This is why editing / proofreading is important. Also: why wishful thinking is a problem…
And now it has a web address…
Stuck…

I’m getting more and more interested in what the way we treat emerging AI (particularly GPT) says about our tendencies to marginalize & demonize difference. I mean, let’s take it that the AI is sentient, what does our derision of it then say about how we treat “difference”?

And, along these lines, I am interested in how the AI reflects a sense of self in pronouns… like who is the “I” and “we” referred to when asked to reflect upon “it”self? Is there a “sense of a culture” here?

Right then, here we go. AI writing criteria in my classes. Feels very real suddenly, but that's where we are...
https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/historical-figures-chat/id6444197650 Who needs history when you can just talk to dead people?
‎Historical Figures Chat

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Weekend reading: Public 64: beyond unsettling — methodologies for decolonizing futures. Eds: Dector and Taunton.