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Down with copyright-infringing LLMs—long live the small language model

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Jenny Hedley At my final PhD milestone conference, one of my writer friends whispered conspiratorially about how ‘we all hate AI’, sweeping me into the prevailing category of Writers Against Machine Learning. I did not then reveal my position, which is more complex than love or hate. If my (non-existent) published novel had been cannibalised by large language models (LLMs) via pirated databases as my friend’s had, my curiosity about the possible benefits of AI might similarly be quashed. For years now my interest in digital writing has been guided by the ethos of the Ouvrior de Littérature Potentielle (Oulipo)…

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Pot Tent Shell Litter Rat Shore

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by Justin Clemens Although I’d intended to move onto a rather different topic with this, my final post for the Southerly blog, I’ve found myself stuck on the problem of poetry and computing I briefly discussed last week. Although my thinking on this remains pretty infantile, I would want to say that there is an irreconcilable difference between language and information. To commit the unforgivable gaffe of auto-citation: ‘If almost all inherited elements of human communication have now been decisively reconfigured by the new technologies, this is on the basis of essentially technical, trans-human routines of “information-as-code” not “language-as-symbolic-exchange.”’[1] Whatever…

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