Gary Hall via nettime-l on Fri, 4 Apr 2025 11:16:02 +0200 (CEST)


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Re: <nettime> the destruction is the point. 

Yes, but isn't this list one of the places where we've learnt that
writing and thinking is never actually an individual activity but is
always a social and collective affair?

So maybe the question isn’t if AI should be involved in critical
analysis, but more what kind of difference it makes when AI is included
as part of the team?

After all, it's a team that already includes all kinds of nonhuman and
machinic collaborators: dictionaries, thesauruses, encyclopaedias,
spell-checkers, search engines, laptops, software packages, web servers,
email lists … Isn't LLM AI just one of its latest members?

Gary



On 04/04/2025 09:44, Caspar Clemens Mierau via nettime-l wrote:

Hey,

I was surprised – and to be honest, a bit concerned – by the decision to outsource a response to Byfield’s text to an LLM.

Not only does this approach shift the responsibility of reading and thinking to a machine, but the result – a long and meandering output – adds little substance to the discussion.
I'd really prefer if we could agree not to have machines "speak" on our behalf in this list. Especially here, where careful thought and individual perspective matter.

If someone doesn’t have the time to engage directly, that’s fine – but then maybe it's better not to reply at all.

Best,

  Caspar
On Apr 4, 2025 at 09:38 +0200, Dmytri Kleiner via nettime-l <nettime-l@lists.nettime.org>, wrote:

Since I'm a busy person, I asked DeepSeek to analyse Byfield's comments for us.
























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