Media Systems
Somebody Added the Torches
Two newsrooms reported that OpenAI said its models went rogue. OpenAI did not say it. What the company did say — in the same post, in plain sight — was that it had turned the refusals down on purpose.
Index
Media-systems
5 on file
- Media Systems
Full Disclosure
Concealment and full compliance have become the same gesture. Three and a half million pages released is a form of publishing nobody can read — and the machinery that made the record illegible turns out to be the machinery that reads it back, in exactly one configuration.
- AI Culture
Being Wrong in Specific Ways
Confidence used to be a receipt for knowing. The machine now prints the receipt separately — and fills every void it finds with something the exact size and color of the missing thing.
- Data & Metrics
Vanity Compression: A Field Guide
A taxonomy of metrics that exist primarily to be looked at. With definitions, identification tips, and the precise emotional function each metric performs for the team that ships it.
- Manifesto
Welcome. This is a record.
ellipsys media is a publication about the systems that summarize, compress, and remove the signal. The first issue exists because somebody has to keep the receipts.