– Jeg tror det er noen reelle bekymringer her, sier professor Scott Rettberg (@srettberg.bsky.social), leder for Senter for digitale fortellinger ved University of Bergen. – Men kunstig intelligens åpner også nye kunstneriske muligheter. www.forskning.no/kunst-og-lit...

Apply before March 11 for this AMAZING* residency at Canada’s Banff Centre, where @derekbeaulieu.bsky.social is director of literary arts! * I’m biased, but — @lillianyvonne.bsky.social and I were at the first one; Kalen Iwamoto’s work is awesome www.banffcentre.ca/programs/lit...

Scott and Jhave are back with a new #AIUpdate, talking billions of dollars and discussing whether the new #AI economy truly is "too big to fail". Find Off Center on Spotify and wherever you get your podcasts! open.spotify.com/episode/4T29...

Yes, indeed! New article! What happens to a Norwegian folktale when generated by Large Language Models? And why would you want to know?

super hyped to be on Diffractions!

We're very pleased to announce the call for the Joseph P. Tabbi Fellowship for International Researchers in Electronic – which will fully fund an earlier career faculty visiting researcher at the CDN. Applications are open until Feb 1, 2026: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

Read my🧵about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.

The ALGOFOLK project & the StoryMachine project join forces with a massive CfP on "Algorithmic Folklore as Transcultural Storytelling" for a Special Gathering on the Electronic Book Review @ebrbark, please submit! www.uni-regensburg.de/en/universit...

me & Mariella Otto are presenting our new work "Diviner [A]/[B]" in Malmö tomorrow, it's about speckled hens and A/B testing, chicken coops and data centers, Markov chains and Eames' "A Communications Primer" www.iac.lu.se/malmo-galler...

«For brorparten av ChatGPTs brukere er ikke ChatGPT først og fremst en «teknologi», men et medium – en formidler av tekst og bilder,» skriver @annesigrid.bsky.social, postdoktor i CDN-prosjektet #AIStories. www.dagsavisen.no/debatt/du-ma...

“AI summaries of a recent Telenor security report changed the largest threats to our telecom industry, and added a common problem US context […] This is a common problem we see in our studies,” says @jilltxt.bsky.social in the talk “AI-generated stories: the nostalgia of large language models”.

ALGOpod episode 3 just out, chatting with Minna Ruckenstein about #algorithmicfolklore, feelings, data, and more open.spotify.com/episode/4LKa...

The AI doesn't like my writing. That's OK, the article is about how I don't like how the AI writes.

On this episode Scott talks to Espen Aarseth, Dean of the School of Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong, about his groundbreaking work in #GameStudies: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

Du hørte kanskje at NTB publiserte en KI-generert melding sist uke. Visste du at KI-sammendraget endret sikkerhetstrussel fra fiendtlige statlige aktører til ekstemvær og aldrende teknologi? Slik ideologisk vridning viser at KI-bias kan være en sikkerhetsrisiko. www.aftenposten.no/meninger/deb...

Looking forwards to hearing Roberto Simanowski talk here at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in half an hour! His new book just came out last week! www4.uib.no/forskning/fo...

Interested in #DigitalNarratives? Help us build the "Living Glossary of Digital Narratives" and sign up for our student workshop 'How to Write a Bad-Ass Glossary Entry" (Nov 10-11) by November 01! For more information, see glossary.cdn.uib.no/about/ @cdn-bergen.bsky.social @unistuttgart.bsky.social

– Det at alt potensielt kan være falskt, gjør at publikum må bruke mer tid og krefter på å etterprøve innhold, sier CDN- og UiB-forsker Gabriele de Seta (@notsaved.bsky.social) til @forskning.bsky.social. www.forskning.no/data-kunstig... #ALGOFOLK @uibai.bsky.social

new ALGOpod episode, a great chat with @gurotekopp.bsky.social on digital folklore, algorithms, animal studies, and more open.spotify.com/episode/7rCh...

What happens when science speaks through art? The Intimate Atmospheres digital art meets science communication exhibition will take place in Langes Gate 1-3 from the 20th of October until the 24th of October. www4.uib.no/forskning/fo...

In cooperation with Bergen Film Festival we are doing an exhibition and panel discussion on AI Cinema. In the latest Off Center episode, the curators discuss the "An Eye for AI Cinema" exhibition: creators.spotify.com/pod/profile/...

my current 2-year forecast is that LLMs will be easy to run, finetune and perhaps even train locally; casual users will stick with platform ones for trivial tasks, apps will offer customized models and data privacy options for cheap, and chat interfaces will slowly be reabsorbed

Jeg har skrevet om Husmorhæren og sammenblandingen av politikk og profitt - som også henger sammen med hvordan sosiale medieplattformer fremmer hustlers som Solheim fordi også plattformene tjener på det. Og det henger sammen med KI-slopp som det Solheim bruker. www.nrk.no/ytring/provo...

So happy to be a guest at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social and hold a workshop about using @4cat.nl and studying digital culture through materials from social media platforms - and also being able to talk about research ethics and query design 🥰

We are launching #SurvivingSOGICE, and seek testimonies from survivors of socalled "conversion therapy" in Europe. Led by our PhD Sérgio Roxo, read more about it here: www.survivingsogice.eu #SOGICE

Daniel Temkin’s book Forty-Four Esolangs, coming from the MIT Press on Sep 23 in the Hardcopy series, is reviewed & @dtemkin.bsky.social himself is interviewed in IEEE Spectrum spectrum.ieee.org/esoteric-pro...

We are living in a political moment globally in which research on gender is increasingly under pressure. Games studies scholars working on gender and games are all too familiar with these pressures and with the challenges that come with it. Read more: www4.uib.no/en/research/...

in Siegen to prototype some inferential devices for the week www.mediacoop.uni-siegen.de/en/synthetic...

Here are some really helpful examples showing how a multilingual LLM gets from prompt to output in an iterative process - and how the intermediate steps are largely in English even when the prompt and the output are in another language. jilltxt.net/do-language-... (paper: doi.org/10.48550/arX...)

The move is indicative of how AI continues to add additional steps between us and the information and media we consume. "Footsteps in the sand are a great analogy," says @jilltxt.bsky.social at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social. "You know someone made those footprints" www.bbc.com/future/artic...

At the end of our keynote for #Nordmedia25 @annettemarkham.bsky.social and I asked the audience how we should do to build better futures, how we as media researchers can make things better. The buzz of 400 people in an auditorium was amazing! Here are some of the ideas! jilltxt.net/what-should-...

Generative AI Storytelling, på #Arendalsuka klokka 13.00. @srettberg.bsky.social, @annesigrid.bsky.social og Jhave Johnston om skjæringspunktene mellom KI og historiefortelling i NORS sitt KI-telt ved St Franciskus skole: www.arendalsuka.no/programsoek/...

Hvis du er interessert intelligent analyse av Ting Som Foregår På Internett kan jeg *varmt* anbefale bloggen til mine utrolig kule kolleger i prosjektet ALGOFOLK, som driver med noe så sykt kult som *algorithmic folklore*

New paper!! Hermann Wigers and I used OpenAI to generate and analyse 11,800 stories "from" 236 countries: Norwegian stories, Chinese stories, American stories, etc. We found that GPT-4o-mini tells the same story over and over. open-research-europe.ec.europa.eu/articles/5-2...

Master's in Nordic or Comparative Literature, you say? Come here! The project is part of the research project #AISTORIES: Narrative Archetypes for Artificial Intelligence, a @erc.europa.eu Advanced Grant led by Professor @jilltxt.bsky.social: www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

We have published our recordings from #Joefest – celebrating Joseph Tabbi and 30 years of the journal electronic book review. On our website, or our Youtube channel: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... www.uib.no/en/cdn/17799... #electronicliterature

The journal used AI to copyedit our paper. It Americanised all our spellings. The paper is about how AI homogenises writing...

Fourth and last keynote from Fox Harrell from Center for Advanced Virtuality @mit.edu, on narrative Imagining, Role-Playing, and Computing for Prosocial Impact.

Today’s Digital Narratives Summer School keynote from @yudhanjaya.bsky.social –author, fact checker, data scientist, and more – about The Machine as provocateur. Quoting #TerryPratchett on humans as the storytelling chimpanzee.

Today’s Summer School keynote: Alexandra Saemmer of @univ-paris8.fr on the punk poetics of social media. Also, sunny weather, good discussions, and captured faces.

Opening our CDN #DigitalNarrative Summer School today! First keynote is @mariamakela.bsky.social on the story economy and story logic of social media.

Brilliant keynote by @mariamakela.bsky.social at the @cdn-bergen.bsky.social PhD summer school - she is such a great speaker! Here is her definition of narrative.

We're hiring a postdoc (4 years) for the AI STORIES project and are looking for someone who is interested in using computational and qualitative methods to explore generative AI and literature. www.jobbnorge.no/en/available...

Our copies of @yudhanjaya.bsky.social's Salvage Crew trilogy arrived at @cdn-bergen.bsky.social! We're having a reading group on June 6 before Yudhanjaya's keynote at the CDN PhD summer school the following week. If you're in Bergen and like scifi about AI please join us! www.uib.no/en/cdn/17812...

“It’s pretty easy to imagine that English will become more standardized to whatever the standard of these language models is,” said @jilltxt.bsky.social, a professor of digital culture at the University of Bergen’s @cdn-bergen.bsky.social in Norway": www.theatlantic.com/technology/a... #AISTORIES

"The point is not to debate whether the output generated by generative AI is ‘good’ or ‘bad’. They may become ‘good’ someday. But clearly, certain kinds of users deem it to already be ‘good enough’ to be able to start daydreaming." #ALGOFOLK postdoc Debarun Sarkar writing on AI as wish fulfillment.

ya boi is on French TV (and alongside Masahiro Hara!) www.arte.tv/fr/videos/11...

The Research Council of Norway sent Kristopher Schau to interview @jilltxt.bsky.social and @srettberg.bsky.social about our center, our research and #DigitalNarratives. Listen in the article, or search for "Nysgjerrige Norge" wherever you get your podcasts! Intro in Norwegian, interview in English.

lots of inspiring stuff at the "Electric Dreams" exhibition, from illusions that work to Gysin stuff that reads like LLM-whispering, analogue moiré and field patterns