arXiv:2503.18976cs.CYcs.AI2025-03被引 17

AI生成内容模糊人机边界,重塑我们对真实性的认知。

Synthetic media and computational capitalism: towards a critical theory of artificial intelligence

  • 提出算法境况概念,描述机器创作与人类作品难以区分的文化状态。
  • 揭示自动化模仿生产如何重构价值创造机制,推动后意识时代到来。
  • 倡导用整体性分析方法理解技术、文化与资本的复杂交织关系。

本文构建了一种批判性的人工智能理论,置于计算系统日益生成文化内容、颠覆人机生产传统界限的历史语境中。通过分析,作者提出“算法境况”这一概念,指机器生成的作品不仅难以与人类创作区分,更主动重塑我们对真实性、主体性的理解。这种转变超越了虚假意识,进入“后意识”阶段,个体与合成意识的边界变得模糊。论文提出三大理论贡献:一是“反转”概念,描述算法社会的新转向;二是“自动仿拟生产”框架,解释自动化价值创造的新实践;三是“星丛式分析”方法,用于把握技术系统、文化形式与政治经济结构之间的复杂互动。作者主张需发展新批判方法,以应对人工智能的技术特性和其在计算资本主义下重构生活方式的作用。最后指出,必须具备批判性反思能力,才能在不被算法境况吞噬的前提下与其共存,这对当代批判理论构成日益严峻的挑战。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

This paper develops a critical theory of artificial intelligence, within a historical constellation where computational systems increasingly generate cultural content that destabilises traditional distinctions between human and machine production. Through this analysis, I introduce the concept of the algorithmic condition, a cultural moment when machine-generated work not only becomes indistinguishable from human creation but actively reshapes our understanding of ideas of authenticity. This transformation, I argue, moves beyond false consciousness towards what I call post-consciousness, where the boundaries between individual and synthetic consciousness become porous. Drawing on critical theory and extending recent work on computational ideology, I develop three key theoretical contributions, first, the concept of the Inversion to describe a new computational turn in algorithmic society; second, automimetric production as a framework for understanding emerging practices of automated value creation; and third, constellational analysis as a methodological approach for mapping the complex interplay of technical systems, cultural forms and political economic structures. Through these contributions, I argue that we need new critical methods capable of addressing both the technical specificity of AI systems and their role in restructuring forms of life under computational capitalism. The paper concludes by suggesting that critical reflexivity is needed to engage with the algorithmic condition without being subsumed by it and that it represents a growing challenge for contemporary critical theory.

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