For weekend readers, my last offering on the 'going rogue' metaphor as a 'hegemonic' metaphor that has provoked quite a few counter-metaphors and debunking efforsts #AI #metaphor #linguistics #AIMetaphorObservatory makingsciencepublic.com/2026/10/02/r...

"Seattle-based cloud giant" - one for the #AIMetaphorObservatory

Wow, the worst ever AI metaphor? To save people one has to inflict immense suffering as one apparently does during extremely painful surgery (in the case of AI one has to use lots of fossil fuels to build data centres and make climate change worse) #AIMetaphorObservatory

This week's post is about the myths and metaphors that emerged within and about AI models after the Hugging Face incident #AI #metaphors #AIMetaphorObservatory makingsciencepublic.com/2026/09/11/f...