James E. Dobson

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New article in #JCLS 4(1)! 🎉
Havrylash & @christofs.bsky.social introduce a method for evaluating measures of #distinctiveness ( #keyness ) using synthetically generated, fully controlled text data.
#CLS #TextAnalysis #Evaluation #NLP #NLG #LiteraryComputing #CCLS25
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It’s mentioned in the text: he was a non-degree candidate, a special student. This is an existent designation.

YouTube video by Columbia Journalism School What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?

Theater of War Productions giving a dramatic reading of Hua Hsu’s "What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?” along with with panel discussion.

This recording captures my talk on “Genre and GenAI” at Sciences Po last week. This is work toward a formal and material critique of instruction-fine tuned models that present what I call the “instructional-conversational” genre. [INST]

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AI Surrogates and illusions of generalizability in cognitive science Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) have generated enthusiasm for using AI simulations of human research participants to generate new know…

Can the human sciences exist w/out the human? Proposals for using AI as human research subjects suggest yes. But @mjcrockett.bsky.social and I respond with, ‘not so fast.’ In fact, silicon subjects say more about the problems of the research paradigm than the promises of AI. 🚨New article, thread 1/

a figure from the paper, illustrating illusions of generalizability. in the top, well-recognized illusion of generalizability arises when researchers mistake Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, Democratic (WEIRD) convenience samples as more representative of all humans than they actually are. The illusion is obscured when we describe convenience samples as ‘people’ or ‘humans’ in the papers we write. in the bottom, nother illusion of generalizability arises when researchers mistake DEAD cognitive processes as being more representative of all cognition than they actually are. This illusion is obscured when we write papers about abstracted cognitive processes rather than about the more specific forms of cognition that DEAD tasks measure.

We write, the “conditions upon which AI tools are built inherently exclude the same people who are already underrepresented in CogSci… AI Surrogates perpetuate an illusion of generalizability where researchers believe these models represent a broader swathe of humanity than they actually do.” 5/

Genre and GenAI Abstract : Instruction fine-tuned large language models that power contemporary chatbots should be understood as participating in what I call the instructional-conversational…

La vidéo de la présentation de @jeddobson.bsky.social lors du séminaire du médialab est en ligne !

Une discussion autour des normes, idéologies et attentes intégrées dans les architectures linguistiques contemporaines.

A regarder dès maintenant sur Vimeo 👇

This recording captures my talk on “Genre and GenAI” at Sciences Po last week. This is work toward a formal and material critique of instruction-fine tuned models that present what I call the “instructional-conversational” genre. [INST]

A book for our times, DISASTER TOURISM by Rena J. Mosteirin offers readers a gritty view of our darkening world, shifting perspectives and transporting us at a needfully dizzying pace.

Purchase your very own copy of DISASTER TOURISM today at boaeditions.org!

#PubWeek #BoaEditions#PoetryCollection

Your Father Came from a Movie Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

"Your Father Came from a Movie" by @renamosteirin.bsky.social
from her brand new collection, Disaster Tourism. #poetry #poems

Disaster Tourism Placing poetry at the crossroads of American life since 1910.

"Disaster Tourism" by @renamosteirin.bsky.social from her brand new collection, Disaster Tourism. #poetry #poems

Thinking Interesting Thoughts: An Interview with Rena J. Mosteirin Rena J. Mosteirin teaches creative writing workshops at Dartmouth College and owns Left Bank Books, a used bookstore in Hanover, New Hampshire. She is the author of Disaster Tourism (BOA, 2025), Exper...

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Pub day for a new book from my favorite poet!

That pub day feeling

Most of all, I recommend you check out all the incredible articles in this special issue (culturalanalytics.org/issue/12788), with work by Tess McNulty, Laura Chapot, @jeddobson.bsky.social, Alexandre Miller et al, and @katelelkins.bsky.social.

Excited to share my latest publication, "Generative Aesthetics: On formal stuckness in AI verse." It's published in a special issue in the Journal of Cultural Analytics, expertly edited by Tess McNulty and Laura Chapot, on "Computation and Form, Reconsidered."
culturalanalytics.org/article/1448...

MIT says "NOPE, we stand for peer review, merit, and academic freedom" in reply to the Trump Regime's proposed "compact" with Higher Ed. orgchart.mit.edu/letters/rega...

Environment, perception, ecology.

Genre and GenAI | médialab Sciences Po Lors de cette séance de séminaire, James E. Dobson explorera les chatbots alimentés par l'IA à travers le prisme du genre conversationnel-didactique. Sa présentation mettra en lumière les normes, idéo...

Demain, @jeddobson.bsky.social explorera les chatbots IA à travers le prisme du genre conversationnel-didactique.

📍 Rendez-vous à Sciences Po Paris ou en ligne pour suivre le séminaire.

🗓️ Let's talk about the instructional-conversational genre of LLMs with James E. Dobson (@jeddobson.bsky.social), Associate Professor of English and Creative Writing at Dartmouth College, on "Genre and GenAI"!

Tomorrow, 2-4pm (CET), at Sciences Po and online ⤵️

Genre and GenAI | médialab Sciences Po Lors de cette séance de séminaire, James E. Dobson explorera les chatbots alimentés par l'IA à travers le prisme du genre conversationnel-didactique. Sa présentation mettra en lumière les normes, idéo...

📆 Le médialab accueille @jeddobson.bsky.social pour son prochain séminaire, le mardi 7 octobre 2025.

Il explorera les chatbots IA à travers le prisme du genre conversationnel-didactique, en analysant les normes, idéologies et attentes intégrées aux architectures linguistiques contemporaines.

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David Bau on How Artificial Intelligence Works Yascha Mounk and David Bau delve into the “black box” of AI.

On the Good Fight podcast w substack.com/@yaschamounk I give a quick but careful primer on how modern AI works.

I also chat about our responsibility as machine learning scientists, and what we need to fix to get AI right.

Take a listen and reshare -

www.persuasion.community/p/david-bau

Looking forward to giving this talk next week! This is work in progress and I’m excited to show it and receive feedback.

Gave this a closer look today and wow it really benefits from the many hands that touched it. Every point -- every sub-point -- is thoughtfully substantiated by connecting it to multiple discourses in CS and humanities. The rigorous thought at scale, so to speak, is truly impressive.

📐 "Beyond Computational Formalism or, Architecture Matters" by James E. Dobson (@jeddobson.bsky.social) examines how neural network architectures materially shape the capacities, outputs, and interpretive possibilities of machine learning models.

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🗓️ We are thrilled to announce the Call for Papers for the conference+journal track of the 5th annual Conference of Computational Literary Studies, May 28-29, 2026, in #Potsdam, #Germany! #CCLS26 #CfP

Submit your article by January 8, 2026, and be part of our big 5-year jubilee edition! 🥳🥳🥳