Chapter 13: Generative

April 28, 2025

Core

• Jessica Riskin “Frolicsome Engines: The Long Prehistory of Artificial Intelligence” (2016), external website
• Ted Underwood, “Mapping the Latent Spaces of Culture” (2021), external website
• Sarah Bull, “Content Generation in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” (2023), Canvas link
• Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, and Elizabeth Gronski, “Does ChatGPT Have a Poetic Style?” (2024), external website

Penumbra

• Richard Jean So, “All Models are Wrong” (2017), resource via library
• Kate Crawford and Vladan Joler, “Anatomy of an AI System: The Amazon Echo As An Anatomical Map of Human Labor” (2018), external website
• Mark Riedl, “An Introduction to AI Story Generation” (2021), external website
• Stephen Wolfram, “What is ChatGPT Doing…and Why Does It Work?” (2023), external website
• Ryan Cordell, “The Scissors, the Paste-Pot, and the Large Language Model” (2023), external website
• Nina Beguš, “Experimental narratives: A comparison of human crowdsourced storytelling and AI storytelling” (2024), external website

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