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…
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…
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…
Pip Thornton 