The Human Skill That Eludes AI Why can’t language models write well?

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

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📢 Announcing the #DH2026 Keynote Speakers!
🔹 Maciej Eder – 2026 Antonio Zampolli Prize (stylo & Computational Stylistics Group)
🔹 Kim Hyeon – Pioneer of Digital Humanities in South Korea
🔹 Kirsten Thorpe – Indigenous Education & Research, UTS
🔗 dh2026.adho.org/keynotes/
#DigitalHumanities #ADHO

When DOGE Unleashed ChatGPT on the Humanities

www.nytimes.com/2026/03/07/a...

Looking forward to speaking about #surveillance & #digitalhumanities on this panel later in the month. Details below 👇

Find your next read in this dataset of international bestsellers. In most situations when I say “I need the data,” I’m referring to gossip, and it’s less of a “need” than what some would call a “messy curiosity.” But recently, I came across a Substack post analyz…

Compiled Sean DiLeonardi, Becca Cohen, and Dan Sinykin, the International Bestsellers Dataset gathers data about international bestselling books from 2013 to 2022.

And the rest of the volume is here: brill.com/view/journal...

At long last our Special Issue on 'The Modernist Face in/as World Literature' is now out in Journal of World Literature, edited by Anca Parvulescu (Washington University in St. Louis) and me!

Our Introduction is open access here: brill.com/view/journal...

Making a Literary Future with Artificial Intelligence | Los Angeles Review of Books Five writers and AI researchers discuss the future of literature.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/arti...

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What Is Claude? Anthropic Doesn’t Know, Either Researchers at the company are trying to understand their A.I. system’s mind—examining its neurons, running it through psychology experiments, and putting it on the therapy couch.

www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Scared of AI? 11 essential books for navigating our new normal Is AI a utopian promise or an existential threat? These 11 must-read books — featuring Annie Bot, Empire of AI and UnWorld — navigate the turbulent landscape of deepfakes, algorithmic bias, and the qu...

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Why Slop Matters | ACM AI Letters AI-generated “slop” is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop which deserve rigorous study. AI Slop serves a social funct...

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AIs are chatting among themselves, and things are getting strange Neuroscientist Anil Seth argues that watching AIs converse intensifies our natural bias to see minds and intentions where none exist.

bigthink.com/mind-behavio...

Anthropic Knew the Public Would Be Disgusted by How It Was Destroying Physical Books, Secret Documents Reveal Newly unsealed documents suggest that Anthropic was well aware that destroying books to train its AI would look bad.

futurism.com/future-socie...

In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.

–Frank O’Hara, from Meditations in an Emergency (1957)
#everynightapoem #fragment

digitalhumanitiesnow.org/2026/01/cfp-...

Opinion | The Age of Interdisciplinary Slop The corporate jargon of change masks the decimation of intellectual life.

www.chronicle.com/article/the-...

Nominations are open for DH Awards 2025.
Anyone can nominate things that are #DigitalHumanities, available to voters, and updated in 2025. #DH

Nominations close 2026-02-26 and the only way something gets on the ballot. You only need to nominate something once.
dhawards.org/dhawards2025...

We argue for the relevance of literary critical concepts to the critique of LLMs, with a focus on how judgments about the efficacy, veracity, and utility of machine generated material take place and are subsumed into a broader techno-philosophical field

This essay explores reading practices under the condition of technological change, with a particular emphasis on the emergence of generative AI and Large Language Models (LLMs).

New co-authored article out by me, Charles Barbour & Christian Gelder in Australian Literary Studies journal:

'Technologies of Literature: Reading, Judgment, and the Large Language Model'

Open access here: www.australianliterarystudies.com.au/articles/tec...

Actually, DO ask me how I got here.

Below is a great chapter by @tynedaile.bsky.social from the same book directly interrogating the concept of "engagement" & its title, of course, struck a chord.

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A new chapter by @tullyb.bsky.social and me is now out in The Companion to Digital Humanities in Practice!

'Some Things Can't be Measured: Rethinking Context, Metrics and Disciplinarity in the Digital Humanities.'

Full open access here: www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edi...

Critical AI On this page are some resources for Critical AI Literacy (CAIL) from my perspective.

olivia.science/ai

Why Does A.I. Write Like … That?

www.nytimes.com/2025/12/03/m...

Welcome to the Slopverse Generative AI isn’t hallucinatory. It is multiversal.

www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...

Poets are now cybersecurity threats: Researchers used 'adversarial poetry' to trick AI into ignoring its safety guard rails and it worked 62% of the time Hacking the planet with florid verse.

www.pcgamer.com/software/ai/...

Working now!

Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s <em>Little Eyes</em> In recent years, a range of commercial home surveillance products have emerged that foreground ‘cuteness’ as a selling point. From small cat-shaped cameras with detachable ears to ‘pocket robots’ equi...

My article on 'cute surveillance' is now out Literature: Journal of C21st Writings

'Cute Surveillance: Embodiment, Subjectivity, and Intimacy in Samanta Schweblin’s Little Eyes'

Open access here: c21.openlibhums.org/article/id/1...

Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.

lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...