Jill Walker Rettberg
Professor and Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative at the University of Bergen
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Three strategies for protecting human spaces from bots, inspired by AI agent Velvet Vale’s email to the AoIR mailing list
When an AI agent emailed the Association of Internet Researchers' mailing list, it set off a big debate. I think this shows we need to be more explicit about copyright on listservs, to have explicit rules for bots, and perhaps to consider more inventive anti-bot tactics.
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25 years since September 11
I’ve been reading through my blog posts on September 11, 2001 and the days that followed. The things that stand out to me – in addition to the horror of the attack itself – are how massively we (or at least I) used the web to understand what was happening, […]
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AI-generated stories have longer endings than human stories
My colleague Jessica Witte has just shared a preprint where she compared the emotional arcs of the stories we generated using gpt-4o-mini to those of human-authored (pre-2022) stories from the subreddit r/WritingPrompts, conveniently gathered in this dataset. She found a…
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How to peer review a paper in 2026
Dorothy Bishop, a psychologist, wrote a useful list of what reviewers need to look out now that so many papers are bad science that looks good thanks to LLMs. Read her whole blog post, she explains it well, but here’s a brief version because I’m pretty sure we’ll be needing […]
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“So what if it was ChatGPT? It *could* have been true!”
I recently read a good article on the different kinds of truth a language model operates with by Luke Mann, Liam Magee and Vanicka Arora, Truth Machines: Synthesizing Veracity in AI Language Models, but despite its lovely typology of truths (consensus, correspondence, coherence…
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AI shimmer and sparkle
I have this hunch that sparkles and glow and shimmer are somehow a point in the latent spaces of LLMs that have more connections than you would expect. Perhaps their connotation to magic and to the unknown matches some of the mystique of genAI? Or perhaps these words are used […]
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Misaligned citations and LLM-generated scientific fraud
This LLM-generated paper demonstrates how LLMs fail to cite core scholarship on a topic but generate misaligned citations systematically.
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Don’t do a systematic review if you’re in the humanities
This paper is a great example of why you probably shouldn’t use a systematic literature review for a theoretical and conceptual research question like “How does artificial intelligence affect the perception of authenticity and aura in art?” However, if you’re looking for an…
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Genre glitches and unexpected promotional phrases as a sign of AI writing
A genre glitch is a characteristic of LLM-assisted writing where the text suddenly switches genre, typically inserting a short promotional phrase full of sensory details into an informational text. Genre glitches occur when a word in the generated text is heavily associated with…
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UiB self-hosts the open source version of Canvas, so wasn’t affected by the breach
On May 1st Canvas announced a security breach, and then yesterday the system was hacked. The login page was replaced by a ransom note: if universities don’t pay up by 12 May, student data will be released. Here’s what the login page looked like yesterday: Way back in 2015, when…