How to Lie to a Language Model: The Rhetoric of the Bypass
When we think of a user attempting to hack an artificial intelligence system, the immediate image is of someone trying to break into the code or uncover a technical vulnerability. At first, we approached the issue in the same way: as a matter of cybersecurity, system architecture, and safeguards to be bypassed. Yet, as we […]
On Images That Remember Without History
Some time ago, we found ourselves scrolling through a late-night feed with no particular intention, letting images follow one another in a continuous flow. After a few minutes, a peculiar sensation emerged: faces changed, contexts shifted, yet the gestures remained strikingly similar. The same emotional postures, the same gazes, the same bodily tensions. We could […]
Barthes and Debord: The Cultural Work of Images in Late Modernity
For some time now, we have been engaging with the question of the image, observing its transformations, its drifts, and its increasingly central role in the construction of contemporary reality. This time, we aim to develop a reflection on how the visual entity has come to assert itself as a form of social power: today, […]
