Critical Digital Media

(critical) material on digital media, digital culture, and media artsfor Digital Media MA and Media Arts students at Goldsmiths, University of London

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Trevor Paglen and Holly Herndon on Making Art with AI and What the Discourse Is Missing

The artists talk process, slop, and why optimism and pessimism don’t quite cover it.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/27/opinion/writing-creativity-ai.html

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AI Resist List website

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The Matthew effect in AI summary - LSE Impact

AI research tools are trained on a literature that is structured by an unequal distribution of attention. Does their use simply recreate the

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We May Be Entering A Second Axial Age | NOEMA

The transition from small hunter-gatherer societies into complex civilizations gave rise to the first Axial Age. Today, the planetary polycr

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Taylor Swift Wants to Trademark Her Likeness. These TikTok Deepfake Ads Show Why

Researchers show scammers are using AI-manipulated footage of celebrity interviews to trick users into sharing their personal data.

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AI ‘deadbots’ can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death

AI now makes it possible to communicate with the dead. But these digital avatars raise significant ethical questions about our relationship

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Study Explores AI-Written Admissions Essays

A review of tens of thousands of admissions essays at a selective college show an increase in homogeneous language after AI tools became ava

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This game's 3D graphics are made entirely from text

Torizon Telecom takes retro game art to a new, literal level.

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Takeshi Yoro, anatomist: ‘In Japan, we don’t see a robot as a threat: it’s simply another form of presence in the world’

The 88-year-old Japanese physician swapped autopsies for popular science writing. In his best-seller, he argues that we have vast amounts of

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AI super-apps are remaking China’s internet

Welcome to the agentic era

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Gen Z Is Pioneering a New Understanding of Truth

The first generation to truly grow up online, Generation Z and their cohort live in a social media ecosystem that blends facts and feelings.

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The Great Zombification

“And so perfect parallel constructions fill the lecture halls, the take-home tests, the school newspapers, and perhaps even the idiom of stu

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https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/opinion/us-china-ai-future.html

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Enter the Darksim

Al Warburton sees new world model architectures as AI’s teen goth phase.

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Anthropic says decades of evil robot stories may be echoing inside AI models

Anthropic blames sci-fi for AI behavior

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He’s So Random

A software engineer wanted to resist the usual algorithms. So he created his own—and transformed his whole existence.