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I Am Sitting in a Model

A sentence is fed through a small neural language model, over and over. One word at a time is hidden and re-guessed. Nothing is generated; everything is eroded. The brightness of each word is the probability the model assigns it — watch your own writing become what the model expects. What survives is not the message but the medium. After Alvin Lucier, I Am Sitting in a Room, 1969.

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