When it comes to language models generating text, AI competence should invole textual competence.
If we use language to create identity, how does it affect us to use an LLM to write for us? How can literary theory and narratology help us understand how "AI friends" work? Why can it be dangerous when an "AI friend" mixes fiction and reality, and how can literary theory and narratology help us understand what's happening?
Registration deadline: 10.02.2026 - 15.00
PROGRAMME
10:00 Coffee/tea
10:15-10:30 Hanna-Riikka Roine, Associate Professor, digital culture (games & digital narratives): Affirmative narrative: Mechanisms that aim at maximising engagement with LLM chatbots
10:30-10:45 Scott Rettberg, Professor, Director of the Center for Digital Narrative: What is the human function in writing with AI?
10:45-11:00 Jill Walker Rettberg, Professor, Co-Director of the Center for Digital Narrative: LLMs are metaphor machines, and that’s a problem for science writing
11:00-11:15 Zahra Rizvi, Postdoc at the Center for Digital Narrative: Happy (AI) Ever After: storytelling strategies behind AI companionship
11:15-11:30 Questions and comments
11:30 Light lunch and mingling
The moderatior is Mahaut de Vareilles, Scientific Project Manager and Research Advisor at the Centre for Digital Narrative
The seminar will be streamed and recorded - here is the link to the streaming (no registration or password needed).