Collin Jennings
collinjennings.bsky.social
Collin Jennings
@collinjennings.bsky.social
Scholar and writer, formerly Asst. Professor of English at Miami University and postdoc at Bard College. Author of Enlightenment Links: Theories of Mind and Media in 18th-Century Britain (Stanford, 2024).
Reposted by Collin Jennings
"Flattened History" by @mackpenner.bsky.social is the first post coming out of the “The Future of Knowledge Mobilization and Public History Online” organized by @activehist.bsky.social this past August.

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Flattened History
Historians are grappling with the impact of AI on their field, debating its utility in research and teaching, its environmental and ethical implications, and whether its adoption risks undermining the...
niche-canada.org
December 18, 2024 at 5:23 PM
Reposted by Collin Jennings
.@zentralwerkstatt.org and I co-wrote this piece on why you are (probably) doing AI criticism wrong as a humanist and why we, in Critical AI Studies, need to do better methodologically than 'So I asked ChatGPT a question and now I have thoughts...'
Now available on arXiv at doi.org/10.48550/arX...
December 2, 2024 at 1:20 PM
My essay on links, AI chatbots, and Alexander Pope's Dunciad is up at Aeon today! aeon.co/essays/when-...
When AI summaries replace hyperlinks, thought itself is flattened | Aeon Essays
In creating anonymous summaries, AI flattens out all the fascinating architecture of thought that makes the internet hum
aeon.co
December 6, 2024 at 12:40 PM
How do AI models read? I'm comparing the predictions made by Google's Gemini regarding the culprits in short detective fiction (with the reveal portion cropped) to those of human annotators. Here's a post in which I describe the experiment and offer a hypothesis: collinjennings.com/blog/2024/de...
The Frame of Reference: Solving Detective Stories with AI - #1 | Collin Jennings
#A simple, whitespace theme for academics. Based on [*folio](https://github.com/bogoli/-folio) design.
collinjennings.com
December 5, 2024 at 8:00 PM
Excited to have the chance to discuss 'Enlightenment Links' with Jacke on 'The History of Literature' podcast: www.historyofliterature.com/649-mind-and...
649 Mind and Media in the Enlightenment (with Collin Jennings) | Mike Recommends A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway | My Last Book with David L. Cooper
It's a Literary Feast Day at the History of Literature Podcast! First, Jacke talks to old friend Mike Palindrome about his love for A Moveable Feast , Hemingway's l…
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November 14, 2024 at 7:28 PM