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BBC Radio 4 Word of Mouth / Edinburgh Fringe 2024
A lot has happened over the last six months, and I’ve been a bit remiss in documenting it. In August 2023 I had the opportunity to perform at the Edinburgh Fringe as part of the Cabaret of Dangerous Ideas, and I bloody loved it! The show was called Evil Google Sells your Words / You Can’t…
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ARTICULATING DATA – call for artists
Articulating Data: machine listening, vocalisation, and the (in)security of language in a digital age CALL FOR CREATIVE COMMISSIONS £2,500 | Deadline: 14th November 2022 (11.59pm UK time) “An articulation is the form of the connection that can make a unity of two different elements, under certain conditions. It is a linkage which is not necessary,…
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Back for the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe! NEWSPEAK & {poem}.py at the Scottish Storytelling Centre – what are #wordsworth ?
The original iteration of Newspeak visualised the words of George Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four as if they were commodities on a stock exchange. Using live data scraped from Google Ads, the text of the book scrolls across the screen as ticker-tape. The fluctuating prices of the words are determined by what they are worth to Google in…
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Language in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction: A Thesis
I passed my PhD viva a couple of weeks ago, so can now post the finalised version here if anyone wants to read any of it (but please cite accordingly): THORNTON_THESIS_FINALFINAL. Language in the Age of Algorithmic Reproduction: A Critique of Linguistic Capitalism will also be available from my Royal Holloway PURE page, but I…
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Writing the Wrongs of AI
LLMs, copyright and creativity in the age of Generative AI The Writing the Wrongs of AI project started last year when I began to see social media posts from writers, outraged that their books had been hoovered up by big tech companies to train AI without their knowledge or consent, and with no attribution or…
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Google & the Algorithm: Side Effects of Search
I wrote this paper in 2014 as a Masters level project in the first year of my PhD. At the time, my supervisor urged me to either publish it or at least ‘put it on the web’, but I didn’t because I thought it was incomplete (it is, and it was my first attempt at…
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