5 papers
AI Fiction in the Wild
Neel Gupta, Maria Antoniak, Melanie Walsh
Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, En…
so much depends / upon / a whitespace: Why Whitespace Matters for Poets and LLMs
Sriharsh Bhyravajjula, Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus +1
Whitespace is a critical component of poetic form, reflecting both adherence to standardized forms and rebellion against those forms. Each poem's whitespace distribution reflects t…
Algorithms in the Stacks: Investigating automated, for-profit diversity audits in public libraries
Melanie Walsh, Connor Franklin Rey, Chang Ge +2
Algorithmic systems are increasingly being adopted by cultural heritage institutions like libraries. In this study, we investigate U.S. public libraries' adoption of one specific a…
Does ChatGPT Have a Poetic Style?
Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Elizabeth Gronski
Generating poetry has become a popular application of LLMs, perhaps especially of OpenAI's widely-used chatbot ChatGPT. What kind of poet is ChatGPT? Does ChatGPT have its own poet…
Sonnet or Not, Bot? Poetry Evaluation for Large Models and Datasets
Melanie Walsh, Anna Preus, Maria Antoniak
Large language models (LLMs) can now generate and recognize poetry. But what do LLMs really know about poetry? We develop a task to evaluate how well LLMs recognize one aspect of E…