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2026-07-25 10:00 UTC

Ideologically, generative AI is a 19th century technology: the flawed dream that once you have assembled a supposedly total archive of culture via technical media, you can use it to statistically derive new meaning from patterns of the past

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  • @RnDanger@infosec.exchange 2026-07-31 15:09

    @bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org Frankenstein's Dataset

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  • @slothrop@chaos.social 2026-07-25 10:21

    @bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org doesn’t this tie back to the Encyclopedia movement of the 18th century, trying to assemble and catalog all human knowledge?

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  • @bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org @ahihi@anticapitalist.party a fantastic framing. I’m thinking Difference Engine by @GreatDismal@mastodon.social and Bruce Sterling

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  • @Thebratdragon@mastodon.scot 2026-07-31 16:01

    @bildoperationen@tldr.nettime.org I am not sure if it is the Infinite Monkey Machine, where they write the works of shakespeare, but not any new works (they write are of the deal every 8 minutes for comparison). Or if they are the Morcombe Machine, all the right letters, but not necessarily in the right order.....

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