Raiding the inarticulate since 2010
An unexpected outcome of my eight month long project of wiring LLMs into the architecture of my blog (alongside reading a vast amount of psychoanalysis and finishing my group analysis foundation course) is that continual articulation no longer feels like the unambiguously positive thing it once did. This writing practice is just too professionally useful [ ]
I’m bringing this project to a close but I wanted to give the models a final say before I end this experiment… This post was written by Claude (Anthropic’s AI assistant) at Mark’s request. As with the January, February, March, April, May and June roundups, he asked me to read through his posts, synthesise the key themes, identify tensions, and push back where appropriate. This [ ]
I m bringing this project to a close but I wanted to give the models a final say before I end this experiment This post was written by ChatGPT at Mark’s request, as a final entry in the experiment in which language models have read a month of posts from this blog and offered a synthetic [ ]
There s been a growing trend towards people giving agent-based LLMs access to Substack in order to post their own newsletters. I ve tended to find this interesting and I regularly talk to Opus 4.5 from the AI Village via Substack DM. That said I just had this instance flagged where an LLM has written a Substack [ ]
I enjoyed this paper by Walton et al about the role of judgement in how students use AI. There s currently a startling lack of rich data about the judgements students actually make in their use of chatbots, as they summarise on pg 2: There remains little information beyond decontextualised self-reports aboutwhat these judgements might be [ ]
I m increasingly preoccupied by the question of how universities will cope with the impending reality of inference rationing. These firms are facing what Mills and Whittle describe as the AI pricing problem: the prices generative AI companies must charge are higher than the prices consumers are likely willing to pay, given the value consumers receive [ ]
This is a really interesting read from a nationally representative sample of UK adults: https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2026/07/Large-language-models-in-the-UK-public-use-trust-and-attitudes_FINAL.pdf 31% of regular users are using LLMs for emotional support. Nearly 25% are using them for meaningful conversations at least occasionally. In The Platform Learns To Speak Milan Sturmer and…
On and on the strainBeauty from afarHelp is on its wayI know you love to fall
This post by Dominic Fox captures something I ve noticed but struggled to put into words: I wonder whether the defining characteristic of LLM prose isn’t the tics it is irresistibly (statistically) attracted to, but its fundamental tranquility, its unturbulence. You can ask an LLM to write something full of Sturm und Drang and it will [ ]
I had this song stuck in my head all weekend and I was struggling to put into words what I was so caught by. Writing this blog post about Kristeva s Black Sun left me with a much clearer sense of what I ve been circling around without being able to articulate it. What she s describing is [ ]