The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT

Published:2024-01-17 Issue: Volume: Page:
ISSN:1367-5494
Container-title:European Journal of Cultural Studies
language:en
Short-container-title:European Journal of Cultural Studies

Author:

Shah Nishant¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Abstract

The emerging discourse catalyzed by the opening up of generative artificial intelligence (Gen-AI) applications for everyday usage often presents Gen-AI as radically and disruptively new. I revisit two moments in early conversations in computational history to offer a historicization of Chat GPT: the making of digital narratives through computational methods of storing, sorting and sequencing semantic units and the production of digital narratives through computational architecture of computability and stacks. I offer a framework of critical turns that unpack Gen-AI as a new form of digital narrative practice that challenges the future of meaning and function of narratives in everyday lives.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous),Education,Cultural Studies

Link

http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/13675494231223572

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