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Collin Jennings

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Scholar and writer, formerly Asst. Professor of English at Miami University and postdoc at Bard College. Author of Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in 18th-Century Britain (Stanford, 2024).

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I’m sorry Rachael - that’s so awful.

09.01.2025 01:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Flattened History Historians are grappling with the impact of AI on their field, debating its utility in research and teaching, its environmental and ethical implications, and whether its adoption risks undermining the...

"Flattened History" by @mackpenner.bsky.social is the first post coming out of the “The Future of Knowledge Mobilization and Public History Online” organized by @activehist.bsky.social this past August.

niche-canada.org/2024/12/17/a...

#cdnhist #history #AI

18.12.2024 17:23 — 👍 8    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 1
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.@zentralwerkstatt.org and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we, in Critical AI Studies, need to do better methodologically than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...

02.12.2024 13:20 — 👍 233    🔁 62    💬 14    📌 13
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When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum

My essay on links, AI chatbots, and Alexander Pope's Dunciad is up at Aeon today! aeon.co/essays/when-...

06.12.2024 12:40 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 3
The Frame of Reference: Solving Detective Stories with AI - #1 | Collin Jennings #A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.

How do AI models read? I'm comparing the predictions made by Google's Gemini regarding the culprits in short detective fiction (with the reveal portion cropped) to those of human annotators. Here's a post in which I describe the experiment and offer a hypothesis: collinjennings.com/blog/2024/de...

05.12.2024 20:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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649 Mind and Media in the Enlightenment (with Collin Jennings) | Mike Recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway | My Last Book with David L. Cooper It's a Literary Feast Day at the History of Literature Podcast! First, Jacke talks to old friend Mike Palindrome about his love for A Moveable Feast , Hemingway's l…

Excited to have the chance to discuss 'Enlightenment Links' with Jacke on 'The History of Literature' podcast: www.historyofliterature.com/649-mind-and...

14.11.2024 19:28 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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