Synthetic Mediations: Mapping the Anti-Hermeneutic and Post-Ideological Structure of Automated Communications in the Digital Public Sphere

这项研究旨在绘制人工智能在公共领域内生产合成媒体的地图。我引入合成中介的概念，以帮助解释最新的结构性转变，并询问合成中介的物质部署如何实例化一种新的沟通形式，这种沟通形式是反解释主义和后意识形态的，对民主构成挑战。我使用批判理论以及案例研究分析，访谈和提示工程作为分析合成调解的方法。传统的调解形式，如公共领域，正在被数字社会迅速改变。我最初的贡献是双重的，开发了一个新的关键概念“合成中介”和方法论，适应技术的“提示工程”到人文研究的数字方法。鉴于政府面临通过人工智能某些用途法律的压力，这项工作非常紧迫，这使得该项目具有学术和政策意义。

This study aims to map artificial intelligence producing synthetic media within the public sphere. I introduce the concept of synthetic mediations to help explain the latest structural transformations and ask how the material deployment of synthetic mediations instantiate a new form of communication which is anti-hermeneutic and post-ideological posing challenges to democracy. I use critical theory as well as case study analysis, interviews, and prompt engineering as a method of analysing synthetic mediations. Traditional forms of mediation, such as the public sphere, are being rapidly transformed by digital society. My original contribution is two-fold, developing both a new critical concept of 'synthetic mediations' and methodological, adapting techniques of 'prompt engineering' into a digital method for humanities research. This work is urgent given the pressure on governments to pass laws on certain uses of AI, giving this project both academic and policy implications.