In Other Words: Smart Compose and the Consequences of Writing in the Age of AI–Crystal Chokshi
In this paper, I lean into debates and concepts surrounding media as extractive technology as a way into other debates altogether: the history, technologies, and consequences of writing. Combining scholarly work on the topics of critical media studies, critical algorithm studies, platform studies, and linguistic capitalism, I contextualize the current moment in this history, elaborating how platforms and AI shift ‘the semantic coordinates’ (Striphas 2015: 398) of what it means to write.