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Numerous sources have claimed that GPT-produced text is indistinguishable from human-written text across several genres. On 3/31, Gabi Kirilloff & @claudia42.bsky.social give a talk arguing that not only does GPT not write fictional narratives like a human, it also often fails to write about humans.
Cultural AI felt very real this week at NYU. Outstanding conference; wide-ranging and argumentative in the best way, and full of people trying to build vocab and practices for this emerging space. Huge thanks to @leifw.bsky.social and @t-shoemaker.bsky.social for organizing it!
Earlier this winter, CDH / @marbasprinceton.bsky.social postdoc @cmroughan.bsky.social returned to Vienna for the second year in a row to share her experience using Handwritten Text Recognition (HTR) technology for medieval texts. cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2026/02...
Speaking of, @mmvty.bsky.social also presents this month! Her keynote, “Humanities and AI: Modeling Culture Across Disciplines,” was given last week at the National University of Singapore, and will be next week on March 18 at Hong Kong Baptist University: digitalfutures.hkbu.edu.hk/eng/program....
Tomorrow at NYU, @wouterhaverals.bsky.social presents "Style and Prejudice: Attribution Bias in Human and AI Literary Judgment" as part of the Cultural AI: An Emerging Field conference. The talk comes out of the Exercises in Literary Style project with @mmvty.bsky.social, linked below.
The Princeton Logion Project has an opening for an RSE Summer Fellow for summer 2026! This is a great opportunity for those interested in gathering demonstrable work experience as a research software engineer on a DH project. Applications close March 31, 2026.
Join us for the public talk later today!
“There’s no reason why humanists can’t feel empowered to build better models, to participate in model architecture, to think about the kinds of data on which various models are trained and why.” Learn more about our #ModelingCulture program here:
"We should try our hardest to put the humanities into every aspect of AI development," says faculty director @mmvty.bsky.social in a new @princeton.edu feature spotlighting CDH-affiliated scholars—including associate faculty director @vierth.bsky.social—doing exactly that, some for over a decade.
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Modeling Culture is generously funded by a @princetonainews.bsky.social seed grant, with additional support from the Humanities Council and the Princeton Humanities Initiative.
Next week! For our Modeling Culture program, @zoeleblanc.bsky.social presents two projects exploring how computational methods can help us understand past and present struggles to make information more just. Join us on Tuesday, March 3, 4:30 PM @ CDH!
@us-rse.bsky.social @comphumresearch.bsky.social
👏 Congrats all, and to former CDH postdoc @jimccasey1.bsky.social, also mentioned, for “Communities in the Loop: AI for Cultures and Contexts in Multimodal Archives.”
Each year, our RSE team travels near and far to share their cutting-edge work and learn about new developments in the fields of research software engineering and digital humanities. Last fall: Philadelphia and Luxembourg! More on their presentation and adventures, by @marynaydan.bsky.social.
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Graduate Editorial Assistants:
Cecelia Ramsey, Princeton University (Managing Editor)
Odalis Garcia Gorra, University of Texas at Austin
Haiqi Zhou, McGill University
@arnaudemilien.bsky.social, Princeton University
Former Editorial Assistant:
@katrohrbacher.bsky.social
Editors:
@mmvty.bsky.social, Princeton University
@tanyaclement.bsky.social, University of Texas at Austin
Amelia Acker, Rutgers University
Special Features Editor:
@lbmcgrath.bsky.social, Temple University
Data Editor:
@sarah-rc.bsky.social, Princeton University Library
CDH announces new role as publisher of @culturalanalytics.bsky.social! New website launches with expanded vision for cultural analytics scholarship, supported by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social HAVI program. JCA also joins @ojcollective.bsky.social. More on editorial team and new features below.
Thank you for sharing your experience! 🙌
👏 Professors @mmvty.bsky.social and @peterhenderson.bsky.social are among 23 teams of researchers around the world who have been selected by @schmidtsciences.bsky.social for an award from the foundation’s new Humanities and AI Virtual Institute.
Last year I had the opportunity to participate in the 2025 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies at Princeton Athens Center. It was an extremely rewarding experience; rich learning, inspiring people, and insightful conversations. Highly recommend applying if you're interested!
Our friends at Princeton EAS are hosting Jianqing Chen Wednesday at 4:30 p.m. for "Love as/in Game, or Chinese Streaming Media in the Age of Involution." Looks interesting!
Details here: eap.princeton.edu/events/love-...
Deadline is March 15!
Apply to the 2026 Summer Institute: Digital Humanities for Hellenic Studies - Historic Athens in 3D, July 6-10, 2026!
Open to scholars in all disciplines interested in exploring digital humanities methods for representing archival information and rich narratives about historical urban spaces. 🏺🏛️ 🇬🇷
👋 We're kicking off the spring semester with the return of our Modeling Culture program! Join us on February 2 for "Modeling ‘Worth by Association’ in U.S. Book Reviews, 1905–1925" with Matthew J. Lavin, Assistant Professor of Humanities Analytics at Denison U.
cdh.princeton.edu/events/2026/...
Our December feature is now online! 📰 After his talk for our Modeling Culture series, @jrladd.com discusses how AI fits into a long history of text technologies—from the printing press to large language models, as well as his hopes/concerns for AI in humanities scholarship. Read the Q&A below!
