Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
So the Electronic Literature Organisation just got a freshly designed version of their website, built using blogging software so it’ll be far more frequently updated, and with a really nice showcase of electronic literature.
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My colleague Jessica Witte has just shared a preprint where she compared the emotional arcs of the stories we generated using gpt-4o-mini to those of human-authored (pre-2022) stories from the subreddit r/WritingPrompts, conveniently gathered in this dataset. She found a distinct difference in the endings of the LLM-generated stories: both […]
Dorothy Bishop, a psychologist, wrote a useful list of what reviewers need to look out now that so many papers are bad science that looks good thanks to LLMs. Read her whole blog post, she explains it well, but here’s a brief version because I’m pretty sure we’ll be needing […]
I recently read a good article on the different kinds of truth a language model operates with by Luke Mann, Liam Magee and Vanicka Arora, Truth Machines: Synthesizing Veracity in AI Language Models, but despite its lovely typology of truths (consensus, correspondence, coherence and pragmatic) it doesn’t help me with […]
I have this hunch that sparkles and glow and shimmer are somehow a point in the latent spaces of LLMs that have more connections than you would expect. Perhaps their connotation to magic and to the unknown matches some of the mystique of genAI? Or perhaps these words are used […]
This LLM-generated paper demonstrates how LLMs fail to cite core scholarship on a topic but generate misaligned citations systematically.
This paper is a great example of why you probably shouldn’t use a systematic literature review for a theoretical and conceptual research question like “How does artificial intelligence affect the perception of authenticity and aura in art?” However, if you’re looking for an annotated list of 48 recent articles about […]
jim
I was wondering when exactly does it become a website if it looks, acts and feels like a blog…even made “using blogging software”? or am I being overly pedantic (or perhaps overly loyal to blogging).
Jill
Oh, surely blog is a subcategory of website? Like, everything’s a website (well, if it has a URL it is) and then you can have different kinds of websites, like blogs, search engines, journals, home pages and so on.
noah
The old ELO site also featured news prominently on the front page, and that news was ordered reverse-chronologically, but that news feed was built using some custom script written before blogging software was common. And then there were the same links to information about the organization, the Electronic Literature Directory, and so on. Was the old page a blog as well?
Jill
I suppose in a kind of way – but what I think is done particularly well about the redesign is that it oth offers easy access to a showcase of electronic literature and offers frequently updated news. The more prominent date stamps and archives make it easier for readers to see that this is a site that’s likely to be worth returning to.
Elin
I like the new site:-)
Jose Angel
Maybe one should write (or perhaps it’s already written) the paper “What. if anything, is a blog”, following those biology papers on the contrast between folk categories and real taxonomic differences – “What, if anything, is a rabbit”, “What, if anything, is a zebra…”