Language

Training to Exhaustion: Linguistic Labour and Model Collapse

Machine translation Language Political economy Labour LLMs

Paolo Caffoni critically examines the political economy of linguistic production in LLMs

Machine Translation as a Technology of Bordering

Machine Translation Semiotics Language Political Economy Metrics Translation Critical AI Studies Media Theory Automation

The project reconceptualizes machine translation as an epistemic and political process that produces boundaries, hierarchies, and distinct regimes of value

Analyzing LLMs' Knowledge Boundary Cognition Across Languages Through the Lens of Internal Representations

LLMs Language Low-resource language Hallucination Internal representations Knowledge boundary

Paper assessing LLMs’ knowledge boundary across languages presented at ACL 2025

Analyzing LLMs' Knowledge Boundary Cognition Across Languages Through the Lens of Internal Representations

LLMs Language Low-resource language Hallucination Internal representations Knowledge boundary

Noura Al Moubayed contributes to a paper investigating LLMs’ knowledge boundaries across languages

Tokens of Translation: The Political Economy of the Sign

Machine translation Language

Paolo Caffoni contributes to a workshop on AI and linguistic turn in political economy

Organism, Machine, Language, Model: The Making of the Artificial Mind between Animism and Formalism

Organism Machine Model Genealogy Language Linguistics LLMs Cybernetics

Matteo Pasquinelli lays out a combined intellectual genealogy of AI

Machine Translation as a Technology of Bordering

Historical Materialism panel conference language machine translation

Paolo Caffoni discusses the indexing of language’s value in Machine Translation

Semiotic machinisation

Semiotics Structuralism LLMs Transformers Language Modelling