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The expanding dark forest and generative AI
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
Maggie Appleton
Maggie Appleton's digital garden of visual essays, notes, and patterns about programming, design, anthropology, and software.
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Tools for thought as cultural practices, not computational objects
On seeing tools for thought through a historical and anthropological lens
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The dark forest and the cozy web (2020)
An illustrated diagram exposing the inner layers of the dark and cozy web
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Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
Buying fake William Morris prints on Etsy and other early signs of epistemological collapse
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Ambient Co-Presence
Creating a subtle, peripheral, and synchronous sense of shared space and context on the web