Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
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Historian of science, art & ideas.
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Words: Smithsonian, LA Times, TLS, Aeon, Nature, Science, Reactor.
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"Yet AI boosters earnestly insist that taking all the colours in the paintbox, mixing them together, and throwing them on a canvas creates art, not mud-coloured dreck."
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November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
"Yet AI boosters earnestly insist that taking all the colours in the paintbox, mixing them together, and throwing them on a canvas creates art, not mud-coloured dreck."
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As I wrote a while back, AI systems are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
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Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
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November 25, 2025 at 11:22 AM
As I wrote a while back, AI systems are "digital vultures bloated on stolen books which they churn together and vomit out in imitations of words from actual thinking, feeling brains."
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Reposted by Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
This is a slippery slope, because if the programmer can't be fucked to write the code, which you already know they are, they *definitely* can't be fucked to read code.
They'll slap it right back into the bullshit machine for it next time they need to touch it.
They'll slap it right back into the bullshit machine for it next time they need to touch it.
June 24, 2025 at 6:52 AM
This is a slippery slope, because if the programmer can't be fucked to write the code, which you already know they are, they *definitely* can't be fucked to read code.
They'll slap it right back into the bullshit machine for it next time they need to touch it.
They'll slap it right back into the bullshit machine for it next time they need to touch it.
Reposted by Dr Surekha Davies, Historical Monster Consultant (she/her)
It's amazing that any programmer would look at the "take an icepick to the parts of your brain that you use to program" machine and think this is a good idea.
It indicates they are already utterly fucking up at being programmers, even before they touch the bullshit machine.
It indicates they are already utterly fucking up at being programmers, even before they touch the bullshit machine.
June 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
It's amazing that any programmer would look at the "take an icepick to the parts of your brain that you use to program" machine and think this is a good idea.
It indicates they are already utterly fucking up at being programmers, even before they touch the bullshit machine.
It indicates they are already utterly fucking up at being programmers, even before they touch the bullshit machine.
Late to the party (April 15 was the day of my last book talk on my spring US tour) but a sea monster fan; delighted to run into this!
The bee in my bonnet: sea monsters may be freaky but they're also real. aeon.co/essays/how-b...
The bee in my bonnet: sea monsters may be freaky but they're also real. aeon.co/essays/how-b...
How black holes are like sea monsters at the edge of our vision | Aeon Essays
Like sea monsters on premodern maps, deep-space images are science’s fanciful means to chart the edges of the known world
aeon.co
November 25, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Late to the party (April 15 was the day of my last book talk on my spring US tour) but a sea monster fan; delighted to run into this!
The bee in my bonnet: sea monsters may be freaky but they're also real. aeon.co/essays/how-b...
The bee in my bonnet: sea monsters may be freaky but they're also real. aeon.co/essays/how-b...
Very cool!
November 24, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Very cool!
Hooray!
November 24, 2025 at 4:20 PM
Hooray!
I hate this timeline.
November 24, 2025 at 4:19 PM
I hate this timeline.