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3/n Spoiler alert: the models I experimented with failed spectacularly. But, the results were surprising and fascinating — not due to the failures themselves but how the different models I used failed.
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2/n From their earliest days these terms were at least partially about marketing rather than strictly technical ideas (Hao 2025, 90) [...] There have been previous AI booms and busts. Historian Colin Garvey (2018) describes these previous cycles as “broken promises and empty threats”.
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Image from: from Garvey, Colin. 2018. “Broken Promises and Empty Threats: The Evolution of AI in the USA, 1956-1996.” Technology’s Stories, ahead of print, March 16. https://doi.org/10.15763/jou.ts.2018.03.16.02
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1/n Given my broader research interests and the non-consensual inclusion of my work into AI data training sets, I figure I have some license to play around with these tools to get a sense of what they do. So I decided to experiment with what is sometimes called ‘local AI’...
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Nafus, Dawn. 2026. The Cost of Staying with the Trouble: What Happens When AI Lives Rent-Free in Our Heads. Society Social Studies of Science.