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        Date: 2024-07-18 04:54:50+00:00
        From: Aram Sinnreich <aram@american.edu>
        Subject: New article about AI & Jewish Humor

[Forwarded from aior.org --WM]

Fellow AoIRistas:

I have a new article out in First Monday with Nathaniel Laywine and
Victoria Simon, which we recently discussed at an ICA postconference at
QUT (thanks to Jean and Ariadna for hosting).

The article is titled "Laughing to keep from [user input undefined]:
ChatGPT, Jewish humor, and cultural erasure,” and the title pretty much
tells you what it’s about.

Here’s the full abstract:

This paper uses the embodied, Jewish identities of its three authors,
and the experimental methodology of kibbitzing as a form of collective
inquiry and self-reflexive praxis in order to demonstrate the
limitations of chatbots to produce humorous narratives from an
explicitly Jewish epistemology. By contrasting the affordances of large
language models (LLMs) and their associated chatbots with the
context-based logics of Jewish joke craft and storytelling, this article
goes on to demonstrate the risk of cultural erasure that is posed by the
positivist, denotative meanings associated with ChatGPT’s attempts at
producing jokes for, or about, Jews.

You can read the whole thing for free (FM is an open access journal)
here: https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13375

Thanks!

Aram


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