Algorithmic Folklore
Gabriele de SetaBlog & newsletter updates from the research project "Algorithmic folklore: The mutual shaping of vernacular creativity and automation" (ALGOFOLK), funded by a TMF Starting Grant (2024-2028) at the University of Bergen, Norway.
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Salmon in the river
You've probably seen a version of this image before. Salmon fillets floating in water, realistic yet uncanny. The caption stresses the reason why this is funny: AI was asked to generate images of salmon in a river, and it did - just not in ...
Synthetic media as wish fulfillment
Generative AI art is supposedly bad, bland, and boring. Haven’t we been here before? Did we not learn not to make these distinctions between high and low culture? At precisely the point when generative AI is becoming truly available to user...
Narrative convergence
For the past few months, the ALGOFOLK team has been exploring Butterflies, a social media app on which all content is produced by automated agents rather than human users. On this platform, users create bots called 'characters' or 'Butterfl...
"thinking about thailand"
A January 2025 blog post by , which forecasts a likely future populated by virtual companions and AI-generated social media profiles, pointed me towards the Butterflies app. Founded in 2024 by Vu Tran, a former engineer manager at Snap, But...
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algorithms / folklore / synthesis / ethnography
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