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Pour une histoire de l’IA #18 : Hannes Bajohr

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La dix-huitième séance du séminaire Pour une histoire de l’IA accueillait Hannes Bajohr le 28 janvier 2025 pour une séance intitulée Artificial and Post-Artificial Writing. Ci-dessous, un court synopsis de la séance ainsi que la biographie de notre invité :

Artificial and Post-Artificial Writing

With the advent of ChatGPT and other large language models, the number of artificial texts we encounter on a daily basis is about to increase substantially. This talk asks how this new textual situation may influence what one can call the “standard expectation of unknown texts,” which has always included the assumption that any text is the work of a human being. As more and more artificial writing begins to circulate, the essay argues, this standard expectation will shift—first, from the immediate assumption of human authorship to, second, a creeping doubt: did a machine write this? In the wake of what Matthew Kirschenbaum has called the “textpocalypse,” however, this state cannot be permanent. The talk suggests that after this second transitional period, one may suspend the question of origins and, third, take on a post-artificial stance. One would then focus only on what a text says, not on who wrote it; post-­ artificial writing would be read with an agnostic attitude about its origins. This essay explores the implications of such post-­ artificiality by looking back to the early days of text synthesis, considering the limitations of aesthetic Turing tests, and indulging in reasoned speculation about the future of literary and nonliterary text generation.

Hannes Bajohr is Assistant Professor of German at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the history of German philosophy in the twentieth century, political theory, and theories of the digital and AI. Bajohr’s academic texts have appeared in Configurations, Poetics Today, and New German Critique, among others. His most recent book is Digitale Literatur zur Einführung (with Simon Roloff, Hamburg: Junius, 2024). Bajohr is also active as a writer of digital literature. His most work is the novel (Berlin, Miami) (Berlin: Rohstoff, 2023), which was co-written with a self-trained large language model.


OpenEdition vous propose de citer ce billet de la manière suivante :
Carla Marand (3 mars 2025). Pour une histoire de l’IA #18 : Hannes Bajohr. CulturIA. Consulté le 23 avril 2025 à l’adresse https://doi.org/10.58079/13ev0


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