⌁ writer
⌁ poet
⌁ human-AI interaction researcher
Currently wrapping up my PhD at Columbia University. Investigating language models, writing assistance, computational creativity, and making sense of generative AI outputs.
Maker of digital & analog poetry, writer of essays, and lover of collage.
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For pride non-fiction reading may I suggest:
Ace by Angela Chen
and
Queer Data by Kevin Guyan
...they have shockingly similar covers...
I interviewed 20 writers from a variety of writing genres and experience levels. This included 6 writers currently using SudoWrite, a commercial writing support tool.
I came up with a taxonomy that outlines writers *desires* for their writing projects, their *perception* of support actors (human or computer), and their *values* about what kinds of support interactions are meaningful and appropriate to them.
After years of building writing support tools, I've always wondered why some people loved them (even when they're bad!) & others disliked them no matter what.
That's why I ran this study which is out with #CHI2023:
"Social Dynamics of AI Support in Creative Writing"
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I read Etel Adnan's "Sea and Fog" over the weekend. What a stunning book. Some favorite lines:
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"And the sea ceased to be because it became the sea, and we stopped at the station of impermanence, and rose from our bewilderment to witness the junction of the past with the present."
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"Morning. Vast. Imprecision. Fog has covered everything in grey absolute. The has lasted. doubt looms over the mind. Absence is harder to accept than death."
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asking gpt3 what color a paragraph is:
🟦 "light blue. filled with a air of curiosity"
⬜️ "silver is a color that implies richness, sophistication, and thoughtfulness"
🟪 "light purple hue, like a foggy, misty air"
Responding to https://twitter.com/nathan_xones/status/1619994511442317312
Something interesting about ChatGPT as the newest pop text generator is I've actually started seeing people post generated poems that they're like, "this tickled me, I enjoyed it" rather than "this looks like a poem!" But, notably, they are always satirical poems.