Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Saffron Huang, Chat GPT and the death of the author, The New Statesman, 26 February 2023 In 1967, in an essay called “The Death of the Author”, the French literary theorist Roland Barthes argued that people should stop viewing the author’s intentions and biography as the ultimate source of meaning in a text. A text’s …

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Some Reasons to be Skeptical of AI Authorship, Part 1: What is an (AI) Author? By Gordon Hull, New APPS: Art, Politics, Philosophy, Science, 06 February 2023 Large Language Models (LLMs) like Chat-GPT burst into public consciousness sometime in the second half of last year, and Chat-GPT’s impressive results have led to a wave of …

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Michel Foucault on ChatGPT, Artificial Intelligence, and the Disappearance of the Human, Theoretical Puppets, 9 January 2023 This video explores the use (and potential misuse) of ChatGPT. The experimental dialog it features was created by means of this large language model. The result is baffling, seemlessly flowing in appearance but including some completely invented quotations …

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