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Hernández-Orallo and Vold emphasise that these systems will be designed to be highly personalised, learning from individual users and adapting their responses accordingly, which enables them to become seamlessly integrated into personal cognitive routines. This tight integration means that AI extenders become part of the distributed cognitive processes rather than merely external support.

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Lucy Osler

Gender revanchism is one of the main organising principles of the postmodern right, and much everyday AI usage demonstrates a particularly gendered form of cruelty: deepfake nudes, AI ‘girlfriends’ used as a rhetorical cudgel to show real women that they are being replaced, AI ‘art’ of Taylor Swift being sexually assaulted. It’s no coincidence that the internet’s largest directory of deepfakes uses [Donald Trump as a mascot](https://www.bellingcat.com/news/uk-and-europe/2025/01/28/deepfake-porn-sites-link-to-tech-companies/).

AI: The New Aesthetics of Fascism

Gareth Watkins

What’s so annoying about these cultures is that they blatantly position the individual at the center of everything without being able to understand the need for care and various networks that would have to go into maintaining something over thousands of years. What infrastructures do you need in place, what kinds of labor, what kinds of storytelling would you need in order to pass on information? They focus on the technology, on the object itself, and nothing around it, which is a common problem that people within these particular subcultures seem to have.

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