when you go to the shop to buy a newspaper, as we did before, we could have ordered some newspapers that we actually enjoyed. It was in a way, we …

back to Diderot, what was the purpose you had? It was to collect all knowledge of the world into a book, to democraticize the world knowledge. I think what large-fashioned …

Model power is for instance institutions, people that have in a way the power to define how the words looks like. This theory by one called Bråten is applied to …

language is what we use to define the world. Language is what we use to define democracy. Language is what we use to progress, to think, to define the world. …

can we escape this politicization of large language models? So that’s a really big question. Probably not. Because I mean that most people assume that technology is objective in a …

You have Chatgpt, that a lot of people are concerned that chatgpt is left leaning. It’s like a liberal college student talking. So then we have other models, group, that …

When we ask a large language model about information they give us some answers and these answers seem very not authoritative or like they seem very affirmative. They are very …

So this phenomenon of model power, it’s interesting to understand from what you say that it’s always been happening. Before this model power, the stronger model power, like you were …

What I’m passionate about is how technology is changing the social system, how we interact, our relationships, but also how it’s changed the way we need the democracy is functioning. …

And there has been also some experiments that shows that this is not a good way of learning new things because it’s so fast. And if people are going to …

social networks, they also have like left leaning maybe would be more Facebook, Zuckerberg, I think so. More right leaning with Elon Musk, Donald Trump, social media as well. Yeah, …

I think the knowledge about how AI works, not works, is very little because this is so complex to understand. So even me as a researcher for ages has problems …

They should experiment with various AI models and see what kind of responses they get. To actually create the kind of awareness of what’s really happening behind the scene here, …

If you look into the media production for instance, newspaper production, this has been, the definition power has been humans and editors and journalists. But this is not necessarily the …

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It depends, of course, very much on the audience. So if you talk to people who are already working in the field of social organization, especially progressive LGBTI organization, the …

One organization we worked on particularly was the World Congress of Families, which by now has become an organization that is studied by many scholars who look at conservative normal …

You can see certain topics or narratives emerging in different places. So the idea that the LGBT rights are kind of neo-colonialism or kind of outside or Western imposition is …

There was one case for example in the US around a website designer who didn’t want to make a website for like a gay wedding or a gay event and …

I’m just going to suggest you a theory or something. You just tell me what you think about that. I think many people, and maybe not the majority, because I …

Oftentimes, LGBT rights are presented, you know, as against nature or against common sense or against the family or against religion. I don’t think that most LGBT movements see themselves …

I think it’s a mix of both. I mean, I think there’s a lot of strategy involved in this movement, a lot of political elites who manipulate some of these …

If you think about the fluidity of concepts like gender and sexuality that are felt or they’re easy to mobilize against as something destabilizing because you have movements around gender, …

Phillip and I are political sociologists, and I think this is why we are driven to the how question. We want to understand how these conflicts unfold. But in the …