AIs reading AI narratives?

Slocombe, Will ORCID: 0000-0002-4350-102X (2024) AIs reading AI narratives? In: The Routledge Handbook of AI and Literature. Routledge, pp. 149-162.

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Summary

This chapter reflects upon representations of AI in literature but does not seek to analyse them as such. Rather, it identifies the various challenges faced by trying to reconstitute ‘AI narratives’ as a discrete corpus of texts to be analysed, whether through human or machine analysis. Outlining the conceptual, ontological, and hermeneutic issues involved in defining such a set of narratives, the chapter foregrounds several direct problems that need to be addressed in order to define ‘AI narratives’ as a coherent corpus. These problems – encompassing ideas about definition, focus, presentation, content, and referentiality – serve to highlight the fundamental misalignment between humanities approaches and those employed by Large Language Models, when it comes to imagine ‘AIs reading AI narratives’.

Item Type:	Chapter
Uncontrolled Keywords:	47 Language, Communication and Culture, 4705 Literary Studies
Depositing User:	Symplectic Admin
Date Deposited:	08 Aug 2024 10:33
Last Modified:	18 Aug 2025 12:01
DOI:	10.4324/9781003255789-18
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URI:	https://livrepository.liverpool.ac.uk/id/eprint/3183451