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Calibrated Ambiguity in Multimodal Language Models: Humans reach for cultural references, while models describe the picture
Cody Kommers, Mingrui Ye, Evelyn Gius +4
Ambiguity is often treated as a bug for AI systems to resolve---but in human communication and culture, ambiguity can also be a generative resource. From humour to politics to art,…
The House with a Million Windows: Interactive Fiction for Narrative Restorying
Cody Kommers, Sarah G Immel, Drew Hemment +1
AI-assisted writing can flatten meaning in human storytelling, enabling the production of homogeneous outputs without the intentional effort and sense-making writing entails. To ad…
Computational Hermeneutics: Evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology
Cody Kommers, Ruth Ahnert, Maria Antoniak +35
Generative AI systems are increasingly recognized as cultural technologies, yet current evaluation frameworks often treat culture as a variable to be measured rather than fundament…
AI as Entertainment
Cody Kommers, Ari Holtzman
Generative AI systems are predominantly designed, evaluated, and marketed as intelligent systems which will benefit society by augmenting or automating human cognitive labor, promi…
Why Slop Matters
Cody Kommers, Eamon Duede, Julia Gordon +6
AI-generated "slop" is often seen as digital pollution. We argue that this dismissal of the topic risks missing important aspects of AI Slop that deserve rigorous study. AI Slop se…
Meaning Is Not A Metric: Using LLMs to make cultural context legible at scale
Cody Kommers, Drew Hemment, Maria Antoniak +4
This position paper argues that large language models (LLMs) can make cultural context, and therefore human meaning, legible at an unprecedented scale in AI-based sociotechnical sy…
Outperforming Word2Vec on Analogy Tasks with Random Projections
Abram Demski, Volkan Ustun, Paul Rosenbloom +1
We present a distributed vector representation based on a simplification of the BEAGLE system, designed in the context of the Sigma cognitive architecture. Our method does not requ…