You're so basic
A system of statistical pattern recognition trained on large amounts of human data.
What is AI?
He directed the 2001 film "A.I. Artificial Intelligence"
Who is Steven Spielberg?
The legal issue that asks who owns AI-generated works, voices, images, performances, or likenesses.
What is copyright?
Famous song about the clairvoyant sibling from the Disney movie "Encanto" + "Uptown Funk" singer
What is We don't talk about Bruno Mars?
A fake video clip produced by AI and kept as a strange piece of internet memorabilia.
What is a deepfake keepsake?
The ability to understand how AI communicates, how persuasion works, how to evaluate claims, and what ethical responsibilities are involved.
What is AI literacy?
He played Theodore Twombly alongside Scarlett Johansson in the film 2013 HER.
Who is Joaquin Phoenix?
The process through which platforms, companies, or rights holders profit from creative content, user data, attention, or AI-generated products.
What is monetisation?
A deadly competition involving red light, green light + the struggle for power in the Seven Kingdoms.
What is Squid Game of Thrones?
A rhyming phrase for the platform strategy of holding people’s focus for as long as possible so they can generate profit.
What is attention retention?
A set of instructions or rules that a system uses to process information and make decisions.
What is an algorithm?
The scholar whose Atlas of AI asks us to think about AI through resources, labour, infrastructure, and power.
Who is Kate Crawford?
The economic role platforms play when they decide what becomes visible, popular, profitable, or discoverable.
What is gatekeeping?
The hidden work of data labellers, moderators, and translators + the political coalition historically associated with workers’ rights in Britain and Ireland.
What is Virtual Celebrity Culture?
A rhyming phrase for when the AI tool writes a story that has a beginning, a middle, an end, and absolutely no personality.
What is a bot plot?
The process of turning human activity, behaviour, images, language, or attention into data that can be collected and analysed.
What is datafication?
The author of Made by and for Humans, used to discuss human creators, authenticity, and the problem of demarcation.
Who is Arielli?
The idea that AI systems depend on human work that is often poorly paid, hidden, or treated as disposable.
What is labour extraction?
A digitally generated influencer, singer, model, or persona + the "way of life" to follow someone famous just because they are famous.
What is Virtual Celebrity Culture?
When someone copies your work, gives you no credit, and leaves you with nothing, it is said that you were THIS (rhyming phrase).
What is theft left?
The process of training or adjusting an AI system after its initial development to make it better at a specific task, such as persuasion.
What is post-training or post-editing?
The author discussed in Week 5 in relation to virtual celebrities, platformisation, intermediation, and digital cultural production.
Who is Jingyan Elaine Yuan?
The contradiction where platforms rely on distributed creativity from fans, users, and creators, while keeping centralised control over data, visibility, and profit.
What is the platform paradox?
Lamb and mashed potato casserole + A dream that is unlikely to come to fruition.
What is Shepard's Pie in the Sky?
A rhyming phrase for when your AI companion gives emotional support, but the warm fuzzy feeling still comes with terms and conditions.
What is affection transaction?