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Training to Exhaustion: Linguistic Labour and Model Collapse
Machine translation Language Political economy Labour LLMsPaolo 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 AutomationThe 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 boundaryPaper 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 boundaryNoura Al Moubayed contributes to a paper investigating LLMs’ knowledge boundaries across languages
Tokens of Translation: The Political Economy of the Sign
Machine translation LanguagePaolo 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 CyberneticsMatteo Pasquinelli lays out a combined intellectual genealogy of AI
Machine Translation as a Technology of Bordering
Historical Materialism panel conference language machine translationPaolo Caffoni discusses the indexing of language’s value in Machine Translation
