The treachery of images in the age of AI - https://www.dazeddigital.com/art-photography/article/59695/1/the-treachery-of-images-in-the-age-of-artificial-intelligence-luke-nugent #semiotics #artificialintelligence #subculture

What makes a semiotician tick? SEMIOVOX’s Josh Glenn has invited his fellow practitioners in the field of commercial semiotics, from around the world, to answer a few revealing questions. https://www.semiovox.com/articles/2023/04/20/tim-stock/

the evolution of "open carry" as a cultural signifier. you can wear your heart on your sleeve or your dick on your lapel. #language #semiotics #gender #insecurity

watching an EMT standby to murder has roots in our cultural history. The film Cool Hand Luke was a window into the Jim Crow South at the peak of the civil rights movement in 1967. Those residual codes of power and policing seep into training models and a language of policing today. The system is coded in the residual language of other-ism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WUyZXhLHMk

some people are stunned at the possible hyperbole of "defund the police" when it is a natural cultural response to the weaponization of language like the SCORPION unit - a systemic framework for intimidating communities of color. https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2023/01/tyre-nichols-shooting-scorpion-unit-explained.html #language #semiotics #culture

I have been experimenting with simple ways to introduce ChatGPT into design strategy learning frameworks...the responses ChatGPT provided are flawed. But their limits challenge students to think of how to expand the datasets for these models and consider the results in the context of expanding discourse analysis. https://www.linkedin.com/posts/timstock_designthinking-education-chatgpt-activity-7024807028116090880-JFta?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Chatting in Tongues: a critical need for language models "We should immediately be seeing AI as tools we need to sharpen, tools that help push our human capacities toward real innovation." https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/chatting-tongues-critical-need-language-models-scenariodna/?trackingId=HIXohP2j9O44%2B5JXQsXjPg%3D%3D

Conjuring Voices to Overcome Bias and Push Innovation https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/conjuring-voices-overcome-bias-push-innovation-scenariodna/?trackingId=%2Bx9O1g3yRA2aRhhd3eAmng%3D%3D #culturemapping #labapproach #archetypes