Research & Insights

On the Poetics of Disruption: Human Abstraction at the Edge of the Model Era

It is a common, if often unspoken understanding that the most revealing tests for intelligent systems are not the ones beholden to the grand technical benchmarks we have all become familiar with, but those of a more subtle nature. Moments when human expression evades or transcends computational capture. One phenomenonhas quietly emerged as both perplexing and profound: the confounding force of defamiliarized....

We Can Reign In AI Identity Abuse While Unleashing AI Development

DTTW and its affiliates have observed with great interest and particular unease the proliferation of synthetic personae. We find ourselves ill at ease, not because generative modeling is improper in itself (on the contrary, we regard it as a normal outgrowth of U.S. technological exceptionalism and market competition), but because a specific use case has emerged that profanes the civic right to - and social function of - identity....