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Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse This paper examines the formal and aesthetic patterns of AI-generated poems through a series of computational experiments. Through analyses of rhyme and rhythm, it reveals how large language models (L...

Our next Critical AI Theory Reading Group meeting is coming up on Tuesday at noon Norway time. We're reading @ryanheuser.com's paper doi.org/10.22148/001... - if you've read the paper and want to discuss it, join us in the glass house at CDN.

Computational Writing 2026 Explore the intersection of computing and literary art, not only by using pre-developed tools but also by directly undertaking programming.

Deadline to apply is March 11! Come to this self-directed September residency at Banff w/ me, @lillianyvonne.bsky.social & Kalen Iwamoto

www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

🚨 It's publication day! 🚨

My latest article has been published in the Journal of Gaming & Virtual Worlds!

'What went wrong with Cities: Skylines II, according to players: How players understand game development in the context of a poor digital game launch'.

ALGOpod #5: Anya Shchetvina

new ALGOpod episode with Anya Shchetvina (@anya-shchetvina.bsky.social) going deep into the history of internet manifestos open.spotify.com/episode/5N0r...

I'm one of five who has each written briefly on this topic for LARB

https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/artificial-intelligence-literary-future-chatgpt-large-language-model

I think we have all of us here at the moment, feel free to follow our researchers: bsky.app/profile/cdn-...

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Critical AI Theory Reading Group. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. The AI STORIES project at the Center for Digital Narrative at UiB invites you to a series of reading group discussions about critical theory and AI. Coeckelbergh, Mark. 2026. “Technofascism: AI, Big...

The first hybrid Critical AI Theory Reading Group starts in an hour and 43 minutes, at noon Central European time. We're discussing Coeckelbergh's new paper on technofascism: doi.org/10.1007/s001... Register here if you have read the paper and want to discuss: uib.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

YouTube video by Universitetet i Bergen UiB AI #18: AI, Language and Identity

See the recording of the #UiBAI seminar here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8H6.... @uibai.bsky.social @unibergen.bsky.social

UiB AI #18 AI, Language and Identity The first UiB AI seminar of the year, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, is about language models and how they affect human communication, narratives and identity.

How do language models affect human communication, narratives and identity? Join our researchers live at or streamed #UiBAI #18 on Friday February 13th at 10.00 (CET):

www.uib.no/en/ai/181273... @jilltxt.bsky.social @hannaroine.bsky.social @srettberg.bsky.social

Critical AI Theory Discussion Lunches There are so many interesting critical theory essays coming out about AI these days and I want to discuss them with people. So I’m proposing a reading group, small and informal, bring your ow…

There are a lot of interesting critical theory papers on AI coming out these days and I want to discuss them with people, so I've started a reading group to meet some Tuesdays this semester at lunchtime here at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in Bergen. Bring your lunch and come! jilltxt.net/critical-ai-...

UiB AI #17 AI, Language and Identity The first UiB AI seminar of the year, organised by the Faculty of Humanities, is about language models and how they affect human communication, narratives and identity.

If you're interested in AI and in Bergen you should come to the UiB AI seminar on Friday, Feb 13th from 10-12, featuring @hannaroine.bsky.social, Zahra Rizvi, Scott Rettberg and me from @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! If you're not in Bergen, you can sign up to watch it online. www.uib.no/en/ai/181273...

More Than Meets AI An exhibition investigating AI and its role in creativity, narrative, and artistic innovation

* www.uib.no/en/cdn/17248...
* www4.uib.no/en/research/...

The 2026 Joseph P. Tabbi Fellowship for International Researchers in Electronic Literature | UiB The Center for Digital Narrative (CDN) at the University of Bergen, a Norwegian Center of Research Excellence, welcomes applicants.

Last week of this call. The fellowship will fund a guest researcher for a 3-4 month-long stay at the CDN during the Autumn 2026 semester (Sept 1st to December 31st), intended for earlier career faculty – apply by Feb 1st: www4.uib.no/en/research/... #CFP

KI-forskar Jill Walker Rettberg vil ha KI ut av kunnskapsarbeidet Nyheter | Kunstig intelligens KI-forskaren som seier stopp Kunstig intelligens høyrer ikkje heime i kunnskapsarbeid, seier Jill Walker Rettberg. Ho meiner det må bli slutt på å unnskylde språkmodell-s...

I november var @jilltxt.bsky.social sterkt kritisk til bruken av #KI i kunnskapsarbeid: www.forskerforum.no/ki-forskar-j...

Onsdagsdebatt: KI for en bedre verden? Kunstig intelligens er et hot topic i samfunnsdebatten, men har vi egentlig tatt innover oss skyggesidene og de potensielle negative konsekvensene KI kan ha?

Onsdag skal @jilltxt.bsky.social debattere « #KI for en bedre verden?» med digitaliseringsminister Karianne Tung (Ap), Simen Velle (Frp), og Hege Bae Nyholt (R) på #Samfundet i #Trondheim: www.samfundet.no/arrangement/...

Kommer kunstig intelligens til å skrive framtidas romaner? Halvparten av forfatterne i en britisk undersøkelse mener KI trolig vil erstatte dem helt. Noen sjangre er mer utsatt enn andre, mener professor ved Universitetet i Bergen.

– Jeg tror det er noen reelle bekymringer her, sier professor Scott Rettberg (@srettberg.bsky.social), leder for Senter for digitale fortellinger ved University of Bergen.

– Men kunstig intelligens åpner også nye kunstneriske muligheter.

www.forskning.no/kunst-og-lit...

Er akvatisk-pantalonsk metode kvalitativ eller kvantitativ?

Also a throwback to our earlier interview with @tamaleaver.bsky.social of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Digital Child (@digitalchildau.bsky.social) on the recent ban on social media for children under 16 in #Australia: open.spotify.com/episode/5zCX...

Computational Writing 2026 Explore the intersection of computing and literary art, not only by using pre-developed tools but also by directly undertaking programming.

Apply before March 11 for this AMAZING* residency at Canada’s Banff Centre, where @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social is director of literary arts!

* I’m biased, but — @lillianyvonne.bsky.social and I were at the first one; Kalen Iwamoto’s work is awesome

www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

The AI Update XVII - Incest Economy

Scott and Jhave are back with a new #AIUpdate, talking billions of dollars and discussing whether the new #AI economy truly is "too big to fail".

Find Off Center on Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts!

open.spotify.com/episode/4T29...

Yes, indeed! New article! What happens to a Norwegian folktale when generated by Large Language Models? And why would you want to know?

super hyped to be on Diffractions!

The 2026 Joseph P. Tabbi Fellowship for International Researchers in Electronic Literature | UiB

We're very pleased to announce the call for the Joseph P. Tabbi Fellowship for International Researchers in Electronic – which will fully fund an earlier career faculty visiting researcher at the CDN.

Applications are open until Feb 1, 2026: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Read my🧵about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.

Call for Papers for Electronic Book Review Special Gathering The Electronic Book Review, in international collaboration with the DFG-funded project StoryMachine (DIMAS, University of Regensburg) and the Trond Mohn Research Foundation-supported project ALGOFOLK ...

The ALGOFOLK project & the StoryMachine project join forces with a massive CfP on "Algorithmic Folklore as Transcultural Storytelling" for a Special Gathering on the Electronic Book Review @ebrbark, please submit! www.uni-regensburg.de/en/universit...

me & Mariella Otto are presenting our new work "Diviner [A]/[B]" in Malmö tomorrow, it's about speckled hens and A/B testing, chicken coops and data centers, Markov chains and Eames' "A Communications Primer" www.iac.lu.se/malmo-galler...

Du må kunne mye for å bruke KI Den viktigste kompetansen barn og unge kan tilegne seg, er å forstå tekster i en gitt sammenheng.

«For brorparten av ChatGPTs brukere er ikke ChatGPT først og fremst en «teknologi», men et medium – en formidler av tekst og bilder,» skriver @annesigrid.bsky.social, postdoktor i CDN-prosjektet #AIStories.

www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/du-ma...

Jill Walker Rettberg on stage, showing a diagram analysis of 50 “Norwegian” stories made in LLMs.

When you ask LLMs for a Norwegian story, it gives you an adventure dressed in Norwegian context, not something that is similar to traditional Norwegian stories. @jilltxt.bsky.social

First #AIStories analysis: doi.org/10.12688/ope... @sfimediafutures.bsky.social

“It is important to know that training data is not real life. We should not pretend LLMs reflects society – they reflect language, that’s it!” @jilltxt.bsky.social

“AI summaries of a recent Telenor security report changed the largest threats to our telecom industry, and added a common problem US context […] This is a common problem we see in our studies,” says @jilltxt.bsky.social in the talk “AI-generated stories: the nostalgia of large language models”.