Robo-Rhetorics
A travel guide into the world of computational rhetorical tools, like GenAI, informed by theories from the humanities and social sciences.
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AI Metaphors are Back At it Again (opens the original)
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In 2024, Yasser Tamer Atef, Maha Bali, Anna Mills, and I published a paper called Assistant, Parrot, or Colonizing Loudspeaker? ChatGPT Metaphors for Developing Critical AI Literacies. We argued that metaphors for AI aren’t just ornamental flourish. They shape how we perceive these technologies, what we notice or don’t notice about them, and how we start to act in relation to them.That argument feels extremely relevant right now.The current media cycle about agentic AI syste
Ginsberg's Botanical Intelligence (BI) Disclosure Statement (opens the original)
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Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library is Out! (opens the original)
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We are very excited to share that our new book, Writing and Rhetoric Studies in the Loop: A GenAI Prompt Library (ed. Anuj Gupta and Brian Gogan), just got published today by the WAC Clearinghouse Press!Over the last few years, a new kind of writing called GenAI prompts has served as an anchor for thinking about human-computer interactions with GenAI. Countering reductive readings of AI prompts as mere plug-and-play templates or silver bullets that magically fix all problems with GenAI writing,
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