most citedComputational Hermeneutics: Evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology

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cs.CL2026

Spoiler Alert: Narrative Forecasting as a Metric for Tension in LLM Storytelling

Peiqi Sui, Yutong Zhu, Tianyi Cheng +4

LLMs have so far failed both to generate consistently compelling stories and to recognize this failure--on the leading creative-writing benchmark (EQ-Bench), LLM judges rank zero-s…

cs.AI20264 cited

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…

cs.HC20261 cited

What Does AI Do for Cultural Interpretation? A Randomized Experiment on Close Reading Poems with Exposure to AI Interpretation

Jiayin Zhi, Hoyt Long, Richard Jean So +1

AI demonstrates unprecedented reasoning capabilities, but its increasing integration into human reasoning via automated reading and summarization has provoked debate about its use…

cs.CL2026

Generative AI & Fictionality: How Novels Power Large Language Models

Edwin Roland, Richard Jean So

Generative models, like the one in ChatGPT, are powered by their training data. The models are simply next-word predictors, based on patterns learned from vast amounts of pre-exist…

cs.CL2025

Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?

Peiqi Sui, Eamon Duede, Hoyt Long +1

LLMs hallucinate, yet some confabulations can have social affordances if carefully bounded. We propose critical confabulation (inspired by critical fabulation from literary and soc…

cs.CL2025

KRISTEVA: Close Reading as a Novel Task for Benchmarking Interpretive Reasoning

Peiqi Sui, Juan Diego Rodriguez, Philippe Laban +5

Each year, tens of millions of essays are written and graded in college-level English courses. Students are asked to analyze literary and cultural texts through a process known as…