In this session, we will explore how cultural taste and everyday choices are modeled, shaped and shifted through data, platforms and AI. Presenters will examine how digital traces and recommender systems reconfigure classical understandings of taste and how algorithmic mediation intervenes in what people come to like and choose. Drawing on work in cultural sociology, consumer research and recommender-system design, the session brings together perspectives on algorithmically mediated taste and recommendations, from music to food, highlighting how algorithms not only reflect but also transform preferences. The session invites reflection on how abstract notions of “taste” are operationalized, nudged and negotiated in AI-driven environments.

The event if followed by drinks!

The two presentations examine how generative AI systems are haunted by the visual pasts they absorb, from war imagery amplified across social platforms to personal photos scraped into training datasets at incomprehensible scales. Marloes Geboers traces how platforms and algorithmic amplification shape what gets counted and recycled into synthetic imaginaries, while Gabriel Pereira tinkers with the automated pipelines that produce AI slop, surfacing the layers of mediation buried in them. Together, we ask what critical and creative possibilities emerge when we confront, rather than look away from, the spectral afterlives of the contemporary, algorithmic visual culture.

For the full abstracts of the talks and the zoom link, please visit the PEPTalks website.

Logic?? What do you DO with THAT!?

ILLC alumni are at the cutting-edge not only in academia, but also across tech, government, finance, nonprofit, and other sectors. Join us for a panel discussion with five ILLC alumni who are leading and innovating in their fields. Hear how their academic background informs their work in industry, and how they've navigated career changes and opportunities.

Panel discussion and audience Q&A session followed by reception.

Come have a look at the work of our brilliant student!  You're very welcome to stop by — even briefly — to have a look and chat with the students about their work.

This year, the course is devoted to the theme Logic and Learning. The poster presentation forms the final component of the course and will feature around ten student posters on topics at the intersection of logic and artificial intelligence, based on papers studied during the seminar.

The Nordic Online Logic Seminar (NOL Seminar) is organised monthly over Zoom, with expository talks on topics of interest for the broader logic community. The seminar is open for professional or aspiring logicians and logic aficionados worldwide.

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