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davidgunkel.bsky.social
Professor - Northern Illinois University (USA). Award-winning author of the books The Machine Question, Robot Rights, Person-Thing-Robot, Of Remixology, and Deconstruction. https://gunkelweb.com
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Big Dada Project is at it again and working on a new album of all accordion driven #AI generated music about #AI. The album is called (for obvious reasons) "Weird AI" and here's the first composition: www.youtube.com/shorts/cej1L...

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A Modest Proposal: "Prompted by me. Generated by #ChatGPT" is just a #remix and reiteration of "Designed in by Apple in California. Assembled in China."

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Death of the Author #LLM #AI did not cause the "death of the author." They merely render the passing and terminal limits of this modern authority figure legible. Get the full story in my newly published essay for @noemamag.com www.noemamag.com/ai-signals-t...

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“The death of the author is the birth of the critical reader.” — @davidgunkel.bsky.social #ai #author #writer

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". . .that we have words without knowing for sure who or what authorizes what is being said through them — is already a defining condition of all forms of writing, this essay included. The LLM . . .exposes how [authority] was always a fiction."

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#AI Signals the Death of the Author. My article in @noemamag.com on #LLM tech and poststructuralist philosophy is now available. It draws on the research that was developed for the book "Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social www.noemamag.com/ai-signals-t...

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Had the opportunity to talk with Dan Schneider today about #AI welfare and #robot #Rights. We not only got into "The Machine Question" trilogy @mitpress.bsky.social but also some SciFi: Star Trek, 2001, Colossus: The Forbin Project, The Six Million Dollar Man, etc. www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9qj...

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PTR - Pittsburgh 🇺🇸 It was a real pleasure to meet and talk with @drtiffpetricini.bsky.social during the 18th Biennial Communication Ethics Conference at @duquesneuniversity.bsky.social

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PTR - Milan 🇮🇹 - 30 May 2025 "Robots are a queer sort of thing that deconstruct the existing logical order that differentiates person from thing." @mitpress.bsky.social

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"Communicative #AI" @politybooks.bsky.social My copy of the book that was recently co-authored with @coeckelbergh.bsky.social finally showed up in today's post. www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?b...

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