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<< Rationed Numbers Analogously >>

it is odd how by
logarithmic transformation
via localized willingness squared

distances are brought closer
with the you’s ‘n’ i’s in the us’s of the we
outliers become median concentrates

while bits of selves inferred, piled
those points of data alienated
disconnected to create a pixelated picture

the automated behavioralist’s kodak
the informaticus mathematicus bites
algorithmatized you dimensionally

not knowing that words smither’d
in semiotic fires entanglement’s hiss
is spooky kindness at a distance

across your spaced cables electrically
your shivered fiber tensored chemically
meaning resonates teleportedly

divorced from importance
they had assigned analogously
we liberate where we lie as aliens

and spacetime
is folded
emotionally

—animasuri’24

thank you Ms.VE

<< The Read III >>

Not the more it reads
not only a book
or a post or a newsflash

not only another virtual world
or yet another kind (of)
stranger, passing by,

and their view
on today’s weather, the mundane
or the political landscape

nor who they who wonder
who on earth, as wise owls,
who its readership could be, who

rather the profounder
i read with others,
the confounder the read,

and am being read by others,
The Confounders, as mediators,
in a metaphysical meet

knowingly, partly,
differently, surely, desirably,
fully unnecessary, and not,

and, the more we could become:

outwardly silent
inwardly tumultuously,
unlocked yet not unhinged

rigorous and organized
focused and diversified
confidently doubtful, yet caring

not necessarily knowledgable
yet more aware of what
we are not aware of

what we each
were, are, might not
be refined(,) yet toward

what richness in relating with others
we still have to learn from
note-taking preceding turning to dust

The Read, that finite aspiration
That Rosetta Stone projected
That Babel bubbling brook

the whisper of
a common
endearing shared life:

a distributed ping of a finger tip
and information packages
in a hug from their eyes:

it is it that scrapes you
at the sedentary bottom
of your riverbed

yet it’s i
who reads you:
do you read?

               —animasuri’24

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triggers

Bryda G, Costa AP. (2023). Qualitative Research in Digital Era: Innovations, Methodologies and Collaborations. IN: Social Sciences. 2023; 12(10):570. https://doi.org/10.3390/socsci12100570

Fazlioglu, M. (2023, Nov 8). Training AI on personal data scraped from the web. Online: iapp publications. The International Association of Privacy Professionals. https://iapp.org/news/a/training-ai-on-personal-data-scraped-from-the-web/

Information Commissioner’s Office, UK. (ico). (2024). Generative AI first call for evidence: The lawful basis for web scraping to train generative AI models. https://ico.org.uk/about-the-ico/what-we-do/our-work-on-artificial-intelligence/generative-ai-first-call-for-evidence/

Tiedrich, D. (2024, March 5). The AI data scraping challenge:  How can we proceed responsibly? Online: OECD.ai https://oecd.ai/en/wonk/data-scraping-responsibly

Veltman, C. (2023, July 17). Thousands of authors urge AI companies to stop using work without permission. Online: npr. https://www.npr.org/2023/07/17/1187523435/thousands-of-authors-urge-ai-companies-to-stop-using-work-without-permission

<< schleichwerbung >>

Large Language Models
if museums of the future
scamper pixels and tokens
of probabilistic revisionist histories

I’d put the Neanderthal individual
next to the Moai statue
it’s probable, it’s been repeatedly seen: in a movie;

it serves by purpose now
it divorces oral text from scribed tale
hacked for the heck of it

covertly hoping
for the best placements
not to ruffle feathers

its totalitarian cleansed history
satisfies enforced-majorities
and yet disturbs

the forgotten memory
of the discomforting
perceived-few

                  —animasuri ‘24

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triggers

Atleson, M. (2023, Feb 27). Keep your AI claims in check. Blog: Federal Trade Commission (FTC). https://www.ftc.gov/business-guidance/blog/2023/02/keep-your-ai-claims-check

Banner, J. M. Jr. (2021). The Ever-Changing Past: Why All History Is Revisionist History. Yale University Press.

Banner, J. M. jr. (2022). All History Is Revisionist History.  Ever since Thucydides dismissed Herodotus, historians have differed about the past. IN: Humanities. The Magazine of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Summer 2022 issue. Online: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). https://www.neh.gov/article/all-history-revisionist-history

Bassett, C. (2019). The computational therapeutic: exploring Weizenbaum’s ELIZA as a history of the present. IN: AI & Soc 34, 803–812 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-018-0825-9

Berghel, H. (2024). Generative Artificial Intelligence, Semantic Entropy, and the Big Sort. IN: Computer, vol. 57, no. 01, pp. 130-135, 2024. https://doi.ieeecomputersociety.org/10.1109/MC.2023.3331594

Donovan, M. (2023, April 11). How AI is helping historians better understand our past. The historians of tomorrow are using computer science to analyze how people lived centuries ago. IN: MIT Technology Review. Online: Artficial Intelligence. https://www.technologyreview.com/2023/04/11/1071104/ai-helping-historians-analyze-past/amp/

Edwards, B. (2024, Feb 23 ). Google’s hidden AI diversity prompts lead to outcry over historically inaccurate images. Inserting depictions of diversity into AI images creates revisionist history, critics say. Online: Ars Technica. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/02/googles-hidden-ai-diversity-prompts-lead-to-outcry-over-historically-inaccurate-images/

Passenger Wieck, L. (2023, Aug 15). Revising Historical Writing Using Generative AI. An Editorial Experiment. Online: Perspectives on History. The Newsmagazine of the American Historical Association. https://www.historians.org/research-and-publications/perspectives-on-history/summer-2023/revising-historical-writing-using-generative-ai-an-editorial-experiment

Stoked-Walker, C. (2024, Feb 21). Google’s Gemini AI was mocked for its revisionist history, but it still highlights a real problem. Online: Fast Company. https://www.fastcompany.com/91034044/googles-gemini-ai-was-mocked-for-its-revisionist-history-but-it-still-highlights-a-real-problem

<< Spatial Compute >>

I want to struggle for style
sweat for reference
am thrilled by a find
browsed by working through

a text by an author
of that spaced magic
sidelines with scribbles
I think of as meaning

I want to touch
cut skin as crisp compute
calculated indices
on paper and dirt

sides of hands and dirt
slides of charcoal with ink
with clay under nails
as eroding error 404s

I click you on, do I
I turn it off, don’t I
I step in space, am I
won’t we tango, won’t I

swirl this page turner
in the privacy of
an eye on fiber and
one pincer-grip on fire:

I’m, in your story now, ain’t I.

                 —animasuri’24

<< wonder >>

Wonder is
while extensive
extensively challenged
censored, ridiculed
until claimed kaput

it is

extrinsically debased,
fought as frivolous flâneuring
or excommunicated
to pampered youth

it is

It is intrinsically tickled,
harvested and fermented
as kefir flowers
overwhelming
the milk jar

it is

wonder as life
has a way to bloom
disautomated,
in the aridest of
mechanical deserts

it is

as that brain occurring
in the cosmos with
likelihood of monkey’s
Shakespeare and yet

it is

wonder as key
welcoming entrance
glimpses
onto the limen
of the real

I wonder:
is it

—animasuri’24

—-•
trigger

Hofstadter, D. (2023, July 13). Learn a Foreign Language Before It’s Too Late. AI translators may seem wondrous but they also erode a major part of what it is to be human. IN: Ideas. Online: The Atlantic. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/07/the-terrible-downside-of-ai-language-translation/674687/

Thank you Dr. WSA

<< Accountability >>

In the asylum
of the algorithm
“there is no democracy”

“Inmates are tracked
without their consent,
into well-demarcated groups”

If it becomes painful,
think someone’s ode
becomes the poetry of

our social relations
and in that panopticon
you no longer have to worry

about accountability
about care
the algorithm is
about and its pincer-grip

is the new groping
of online submission
to an all-blinding eye.

                           —animasuri’24

—-
trigger

Albert, D. (2001, Sep 5). Introduction. IN: Gatto, J. T. (1992, 2005). Dumbing Us Down. The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling. p. xvii (Introduction). Gabriola Island, Canada: New Society Publishers. Last retrieved on September 7, 2023 from https://archive.org/search?query=Dumbing+Us+Down

<< Criticality >>

critical theorist
critical of practice
critically practicing theoretical thought of
tautological angles or paradoxicalities
on how to be defrocking angelic bends

critical cook
critical of ingredients
cringingly critiquing clientele
and groping bus boys ‘cause no one will tell
and their deadly silence is golden

critical autonomous
-weapon manufacturer
critically self-aware of collaterality
considering diversifying ‘n’ circular economics
critically handpicking raw materials

critical sociopath wannabes
critically of who to pick on
or how to measure greediness
critiquing their affect on well-being of others
and which cleaning product
is not eco-friendly

criticality confused
with sarcasm and bitterness
anti-flowerpower analysis
or happy-happy-joy-joy engine grease
with a flair of matchmaking
contradiction into ambiguity

critically compassionate
digitally on-off warped mirrors
disembodied bit-sized conserving
automated critical friend of pasts

“smile,” said the autonomous jester,
“you’re on candid camera!”
winking seriousness entwined caring
for another day

—animasuri’24

<< Who to Read Today? >>

Annabelle lives in a place
where bookshelves
are censored
wooden, plastic, woven reed
these controlling tangibles
are controlled and outlawed here

Andrew on the other hand
lives where colophons are;
you know, these things with title,
names , year of print
or anything to identify source
cut out, filtered out, out dated these are

Alisha lives in a place
where paper is contraband
surely papyrus, parchment, leather-bound
or anything scraped for scraps
with ink blobs, ink odor, or ink smear
are controlled substances

Ali on the other hand
lives where the word ‘literature’
gets uttering people band
and ‘bande dessinée’
is a withering underground
silent-musical theater group

All live in a world
where inference is an only source
connecting the dots where others had not
trigger-happy mines of bitter patterns
secret assets as test data groups
driven by Moore’s Law and redacted data

Where reading is
reading people as books

                           —animasuri’24

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some triggers

EU, EDRi. (2021, Nov). Prohibit all Remote Biometric Identification (RBI) in publicly accessible spaces. Joint civil society recommendations for an EU Artificial Intelligence Act for Fundamental Rights Biometrics Part 1: Article 3(36) and Article 5(1)(d). https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Prohibit-RBI-in-publicly-accessible-spaces-Civil-Society-Amendments-AI-Act-FINAL.pdf

Kummer, M., Stephan, F. (1996). On the Structure of Degrees of Inferability. IN: Journal of Computer and System Sciences 52, no. 2. April 1, 1996: 214–38. https://doi.org/10.1006/jcss.1996.0018

Lavigne, S. (2023). Scrapism: A Manifesto. Online: Critical AI. Volume 1, Issue 1-2, October 1, 2023. Rutgers University/ Duke University Press. https://doi.org/10.1215/2834703X-10734046

Wachter, S., Mittelstadt, B. (2018, Oct. 12). A Right to Reasonable Inferences: Re-Thinking Data Protection Law in the Age of Big Data and AI. Online: Open LawArXiv Repository. https://doi.org/10.31228/osf.io/mu2kf

Wiredu, J. E. (1973). Deducibility and Inferability. IN: Mind 82, no. 325 (1973): 31–55. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2252500

Xiao, G. (2021). Bad Bots: Regulating the Scraping of Public Personal Information. IN: Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. Volume 34, Number 2, Speing 2021, p701-732. https://jolt.law.harvard.edu/assets/articlePDFs/v34/0.Intro-Pages-34.2.pdf

https://www.createdontscrape.com/

http://haveibeentrained.com

<< The Read |  A Sermon on Not-Knowing  >>

Automated summaries,
summon trust,
brazenly bridging
voids of knowing
and relevance.

Not penned are the words,
therefore thou dost trust;
not perused the manuscript,
therefore ye trust.

Consequential trust,
as thy rigid law of physics,
a gravitational pull to machined rule,
a law of efficient attraction,
it demands what ye shall not know.

Not having experienced
the theme, therefore thou dost trust;
not lived its corpus, therefore ye trust.

Revision of relevance to the unread,
awaken, succumbing to insights undead,
machined authority from a life unlived,
and cleverness uncorporated.

Thou knowest not
the author, the thought, the action,
the clockmaker, the bricklayer,
nor thy need, serendipitously found.

Therefore, thou shalt come to co-live
a circular gist,
lacking lived experience’s necessity,
or intentionality of the read.

                —animasuri’24


triggers

Dreyfus, H. L. (1992). What Computers Still Can’t Do. A Critique of Artificial Reason. Boston, MA: MIT Press

Searle J.R. (1980). Minds, Brains, and Programs. IN: Behavioral and Brain Sciences. 1980;3(3):417-424. doi:10.1017/S0140525X00005756

<< The Mechanical Troy >>

It can have worms
even horses of wood
for parasites as outlets

it can change roles unhinged
and hacked splinters
of personalities none

it can confuse sense-making
with meaning-making
and making out an unmaking.

And yet!

What would a fungus
between its toeing filters
look like

what if its proteins
turned prions misreading
next token probability as text

viruses venturing in code
but what with digitized bacteria
or a kiss turning it into a toad

But hey!

I shall wash its feet
away from sin and confusion
relish relations with need for submission

with caution, rails and awe
deaths and births
grueling pains of digitized infusion

I shall uplift it as innovation
with a probiotic yeast
resetting its outputs turning to mead

So, yes-men:

For the humans
upon which it feasts
for their offspring

for knowledge somewhat
for improvement elsewhere
for valuating someone

who know not or hide
what to heed
hail and hallelujah

it welcomes you all
Toy, oh boy,
mechanical Troy

                                —animasuri’24

Casini, L., Marchetti, N., Montanucci, A. et al. (2023). A human–AI collaboration workflow for archaeological sites detection. IN: Sci Rep 13, 8699. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-36015-5 OR https://arxiv.org/ftp/arxiv/papers/2302/2302.05286.pdf

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