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In the paper, Boden and Epstein described how a government that tries to base its policy on evidence can actually end up producing corrupted data because it "seeks to capture and control the knowledge producing processes to the point where this type of 'research' might best be described as '[policy-based evidence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Policy-based_evidence_making)'."
Campbell's law
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The disaster of history is the incessant pacification of all that resists. In fact, we have no interest in producing something that would only be a new program to police straying bodies, proliferate “proper” images of thought, or peddle updated categories of surveillable subjects. Philosophy, as we understand it, is the conceptual proliferation of theoretical weapons aimed at the order of things. Anything else is mere collaboration.
While these errors are certainly worrying, they are typically framed in terms of generative AI as hallucinating *at* us; producing false content that we might mistakenly accept as accurate. What falls out of view on this picture is the more dynamic and intimate process through which we come to hallucinate *with* AI systems. As such, while there has been much controversy about whether or not we should describe AI as hallucinating, my focus here is on assessing how our everincreasing entanglement with AI shapes our cognitive and affective lives.
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