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Still, Postprint is not the most jarring example of critical intellectuals showing apparent complacency toward legacy media I’ve come across in the last few days. That distinction goes to The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want by Emily M Bender and Alex Hanna.

It’s certainly an important issue. But The AI Con raises some equally important questions.

Can we really ‘fight big tech’ and its hype by promoting and selling a book through Amazon (£17.36 hardback, £11.99 Kindle) and AppleBooks ($14.99)?

And how does publishing with Vintage – an imprint of Penguin Random House, the world's largest for-profit English-language trade publisher – align with the idea of creating the future we want?



Just came across 'My Life as an Artificial Creative Intelligence — an interview with Mark Amerika', founding publisher of electronic book review, by Will Luers. It offers a compelling exploration of the speculative persona of the artist as ACI. Part media theory, part autofiction, it frames AI as 'the prosthesis "I am"', probing the creative limits and possibilities of writing, publishing and programming through digital poetics, glitch aesthetics and remix culture.

If you’re curious about where Creativity (capital C) comes from, or how machine learning intersects with experimental, speculative, and theoretical fictions across the human–nonhuman spectrum, this one’s for you. Published by electronic book review, an Open Humanities Press journal — you can read it here:

https://electronicbookreview.com/essay/my-life-as-an-artificial-creative-intelligence-an-interview-with-mark-amerika/








AI companies fail to recognize that they target creative jobs because those don’t impact life and limb in failure modes. Self-driving cars mass murder when they fail, whereas image generation aesthetically disappoints. This is the crux of why they think creative jobs are targetable/disposable: they see the failures be tolerated. More on this, I wrote 2 years ago today:

https://bit.ly/BeingHumanInAgeOfAI

"While the that is being processed in Congress insists on copying , creating “a priori” restrictions of all kinds of technology, creates an original model, which takes into account the capabilities & interests of the country.
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https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/colunas/ronaldolemos/2025/05/goias-aprova-a-1a-lei-de-inteligencia-artificial-do-brasil.shtml

quoted The AI Con by Emily M. Bender

Emily M. Bender, Alex Hanna: The AI Con (Hardcover, 2025, HarperCollins Publishers)

A smart, incisive look at the technologies sold as artificial intelligence, the drawbacks and pitfalls …

Google is aware of their responsibility for depriving the news ecosystem of its major source of advertising revenue, and has been experimenting with ways to support existing organizations. However, like many of the efforts put forward by Big Tech, many of their proposals will further entrench Al in the ecosystem, not lessen it. An investigation by 404 Media found that Google News is boosting ripped off content, slightly altered with LLM outputs, from other sites. Google has responded that they have no problem boosting these articles, stating, "Our focus when ranking content is on the quality of the content, rather than how it was produced." In other words: Al-generated content is A-okay for creating the news.

— The AI Con by , (34%)

Google: let's mess up news for greed.

Absolutely horrendous.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #google #grift #news #capitalism