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The diagram is a real relation of power, yet equally an abstract machine whose reality is established by power, and configured by the intersection between the histories of both power and the sciences of government which depend on it. Schemata of management do not come into actual operation by their own power, but by the power that actualizes them, a power which itself may be caught in, even addicted to, its own machinations. Such is the case with the dominant machine that cancerously only produces itself: capital.
As predictive text-generators, Generative AI models do not assess whether the outputs they generate are true or not. Rather, they produce streams of text based on, albeit sophisticated, statistical probability. Thus, their outputs have been compared to Frankfurtian bullshitters—those who are indifferent to the truth (or falsity) of their statements.
In Superstudio’s 1972 film Supersurface – An Alternative Model for Life on the Earth, the collective called for a new alignment between design and the environment, one in which human invention and the natural world complement, rather than contradict, each other.
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