Anuj Gupta
@mettalrose.bsky.social
Asst. Professor @usouthflorida. GenAI in education. AR/VR. Algorithms. Computational Research. Digital Writing Technologies. UI/UX. Rhetoric, writing studies, technical communication.
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Anuj Gupta
@mettalrose.bsky.social
· Oct 14
“Wayfinding” through the AI wilderness: Mapping rhetorics of ChatGPT prompt writing on X (formerly Twitter) to promote critical AI literacies
In this paper, we demonstrate how studying the rhetorics of ChatGPT prompt writing on social media can promote critical AI literacies. Prompt writing …
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🚀New paper! ChatGPT's wildfire-like spread has led millions to develop new literacies to navigate this AI wilderness. Our open-access paper in Computers & Composition analyzes the emerging rhetorics of one such literacy: prompt writing on X/Twitter 🧵 (1) www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
As we wrap up 2025 and prep Spring 2026 syllabi, GenAI policies are on top of everyone's mind. I built a simple question-based heuristic to clarify my own thinking on GenAI for my class. If you’re drafting a GenAI policy, consider this to guide you: mettalrose.substack.com/p/heuristic-...
Heuristic to Design Your GenAI Use Policy
A set of questions and resources to help you think as you design a GenAI Use Policy for your classes
mettalrose.substack.com
November 14, 2025 at 4:54 PM
As we wrap up 2025 and prep Spring 2026 syllabi, GenAI policies are on top of everyone's mind. I built a simple question-based heuristic to clarify my own thinking on GenAI for my class. If you’re drafting a GenAI policy, consider this to guide you: mettalrose.substack.com/p/heuristic-...
An important milestone of growing as a researcher involves transitioning from ignoring or rushing through literature reviews while reading research articles, to admiring and savouring them, especially when they are really well done.
November 7, 2025 at 3:12 PM
An important milestone of growing as a researcher involves transitioning from ignoring or rushing through literature reviews while reading research articles, to admiring and savouring them, especially when they are really well done.
An important milestone of growing as a researcher involves transitioning from ignoring or rushing through literature reviews while reading research articles, to admiring and savouring them, especially when they are really well done.
November 7, 2025 at 3:11 PM
An important milestone of growing as a researcher involves transitioning from ignoring or rushing through literature reviews while reading research articles, to admiring and savouring them, especially when they are really well done.
Gearing up for teaching next semester at USF!
ENC 3370: Writing Technologies
(Generative AI Literacies for Professional Contexts)
Artwork by Yutong Liu & Digit / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...
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ENC 3370: Writing Technologies
(Generative AI Literacies for Professional Contexts)
Artwork by Yutong Liu & Digit / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...
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November 4, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Gearing up for teaching next semester at USF!
ENC 3370: Writing Technologies
(Generative AI Literacies for Professional Contexts)
Artwork by Yutong Liu & Digit / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...
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ENC 3370: Writing Technologies
(Generative AI Literacies for Professional Contexts)
Artwork by Yutong Liu & Digit / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...
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The brilliant movie "Humans in the loop" that shows AI development from the perspective of data labellers in India--whose knowledge systems often come into conflict with the annotation protocols they work with--is now on Netflix! Excellent to show in AI literacy classes:
youtu.be/t0bB5X98TrQ?...
youtu.be/t0bB5X98TrQ?...
Humans In The Loop | Official Trailer | Netflix India
YouTube video by Netflix India
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 2:45 PM
The brilliant movie "Humans in the loop" that shows AI development from the perspective of data labellers in India--whose knowledge systems often come into conflict with the annotation protocols they work with--is now on Netflix! Excellent to show in AI literacy classes:
youtu.be/t0bB5X98TrQ?...
youtu.be/t0bB5X98TrQ?...
A really important but occluded research skill is finding and categorizing sources into a personal library that you can draw from when you write. Realizing more and more everyday that folder management in Zotero is something really worth investing time and energy into.
October 31, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A really important but occluded research skill is finding and categorizing sources into a personal library that you can draw from when you write. Realizing more and more everyday that folder management in Zotero is something really worth investing time and energy into.
"What why how when where" are the main question words in English which shape research inquiries in the west. Do you know of any other kinds of question words, probably from other languages or cultures which open up possibilities for asking different research questions than what English allows?
October 25, 2025 at 5:02 PM
"What why how when where" are the main question words in English which shape research inquiries in the west. Do you know of any other kinds of question words, probably from other languages or cultures which open up possibilities for asking different research questions than what English allows?
After three years of researching GenAI prompt engineering, here is what I've learnt:
(#SIGODC25)
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
(#SIGODC25)
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
GenAI alignment is a wicked problem
Prompt engineering is one of many ways we can tackle parts of it
open.substack.com
October 25, 2025 at 1:53 AM
After three years of researching GenAI prompt engineering, here is what I've learnt:
(#SIGODC25)
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
(#SIGODC25)
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
After 3 years of researching AI prompt engineering, here is where my thinking is right now. This is an extended version of a presentation I gave at #SIGODC25:
GenAI Alignment is a wicked problem:
Prompt engineering is one of many ways we can tackle parts of it
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
GenAI Alignment is a wicked problem:
Prompt engineering is one of many ways we can tackle parts of it
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
GenAI alignment is a wicked problem
Prompt engineering is one of many ways we can tackle parts of it
open.substack.com
October 24, 2025 at 1:58 PM
After 3 years of researching AI prompt engineering, here is where my thinking is right now. This is an extended version of a presentation I gave at #SIGODC25:
GenAI Alignment is a wicked problem:
Prompt engineering is one of many ways we can tackle parts of it
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
GenAI Alignment is a wicked problem:
Prompt engineering is one of many ways we can tackle parts of it
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
What I'm teaching in my class module on GenAI Ethics this week: GenAI and the Messiness of Copyright (a reading recommendation)
mettalrose.substack.com/p/genai-and-...
mettalrose.substack.com/p/genai-and-...
GenAI and the Messiness of Copyright
A reading recommendation
mettalrose.substack.com
October 21, 2025 at 12:34 PM
What I'm teaching in my class module on GenAI Ethics this week: GenAI and the Messiness of Copyright (a reading recommendation)
mettalrose.substack.com/p/genai-and-...
mettalrose.substack.com/p/genai-and-...
Folks interested in LLMs built keeping ethics at forefront, @huggingface “Omni Chat" gives access to over 100 open-source models. Some, like Apertus in it, are multilingual, trained on publicly available texts, & designed to minimize environmental impact: huggingface.co/chat/models/...
omni - HuggingChat
Use omni with HuggingChat
huggingface.co
October 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Folks interested in LLMs built keeping ethics at forefront, @huggingface “Omni Chat" gives access to over 100 open-source models. Some, like Apertus in it, are multilingual, trained on publicly available texts, & designed to minimize environmental impact: huggingface.co/chat/models/...
Reposted by Anuj Gupta
i’m less concerned about this now. i experienced deep flow vibecoding yesterday. in some ways it was actually deeper than manual coding because (when it worked well) i was able to explore ideas and directions that would normally take me days (due to lack of domain knowledge, boilerplate etc)
the thing i'm worried about is whether AI will decimate the "flow states" of knowledge work. i realize this is very selfish. i enjoy being in a flow state. i don't want to constantly be babysitting an unlearning intern who repeatedly violates instructions. even if they eventually produce good work
October 6, 2025 at 12:18 PM
i’m less concerned about this now. i experienced deep flow vibecoding yesterday. in some ways it was actually deeper than manual coding because (when it worked well) i was able to explore ideas and directions that would normally take me days (due to lack of domain knowledge, boilerplate etc)
What do you guys think of the outlook emoji reaction feature where we can respond to an email with something like a thumbs up or a heart? I kind of like it because it makes a bureaucratic genre more humane, but I also wonder if to some people, this feature seems a little out of place :D
October 3, 2025 at 6:00 PM
What do you guys think of the outlook emoji reaction feature where we can respond to an email with something like a thumbs up or a heart? I kind of like it because it makes a bureaucratic genre more humane, but I also wonder if to some people, this feature seems a little out of place :D
This is the craziest genre-map of musical sub-genres on the internet. Will take a lifetime to explore this. What a treasure! everynoise.com
Each sub-genre you select also leads to a spotify playlist of artists you can explore!
Each sub-genre you select also leads to a spotify playlist of artists you can explore!
Every Noise at Once
everynoise.com
October 1, 2025 at 8:00 PM
This is the craziest genre-map of musical sub-genres on the internet. Will take a lifetime to explore this. What a treasure! everynoise.com
Each sub-genre you select also leads to a spotify playlist of artists you can explore!
Each sub-genre you select also leads to a spotify playlist of artists you can explore!
This is the craziest genre-map of musical sub-genres on the internet. Will take a lifetime to explore this. What a treasure! everynoise.com
Every Noise at Once
everynoise.com
October 1, 2025 at 7:59 PM
This is the craziest genre-map of musical sub-genres on the internet. Will take a lifetime to explore this. What a treasure! everynoise.com
For folks updating their Zotero to Zotero 7, Zotfile is not maintained anymore. If you used that plugin to manage your Zotero files, there is a new plugin called ZotMoov: github.com/wileyyugioh/...
GitHub - wileyyugioh/zotmoov: Zotero plugin to automatically move attachments and link them
Zotero plugin to automatically move attachments and link them - wileyyugioh/zotmoov
github.com
October 1, 2025 at 4:56 PM
For folks updating their Zotero to Zotero 7, Zotfile is not maintained anymore. If you used that plugin to manage your Zotero files, there is a new plugin called ZotMoov: github.com/wileyyugioh/...
"In turning to AI to help revive te reo, the Māori language, Mahelona and Jones [...] wanted to do things differently. They overcame resource limitations to develop their own language AI tools" -Karen Hao
www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/22/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/22/1...
A new vision of artificial intelligence for the people
ln a remote rural town in New Zealand, an Indigenous couple is challenging what AI could be and who it should serve.
www.technologyreview.com
September 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
"In turning to AI to help revive te reo, the Māori language, Mahelona and Jones [...] wanted to do things differently. They overcame resource limitations to develop their own language AI tools" -Karen Hao
www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/22/1...
www.technologyreview.com/2022/04/22/1...
The University of South Florida's English Department is hosting an open house for prospective graduate students. Please consider sharing our brochure and open-house sign up details with your students who are considering grad school: view.genially.com/68c01283ab10...
USF English Graduate Brochure
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September 26, 2025 at 5:49 PM
The University of South Florida's English Department is hosting an open house for prospective graduate students. Please consider sharing our brochure and open-house sign up details with your students who are considering grad school: view.genially.com/68c01283ab10...
What does an actually useful, ethically built AI agent look like in the wild—outside the hype? I talk with USF librarians Evan Fruehauf & LeEtta Schmidt about LINK—their 24/7 reference chatbot that they built with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Watch here: youtu.be/Z3zBU9bOQxw
#AILiteracy #EthicalAIUse
#AILiteracy #EthicalAIUse
Beyond Hype: A Real AI Agent Serving a University Library (USF)
YouTube video by Anuj Gupta
youtu.be
September 12, 2025 at 4:28 PM
What does an actually useful, ethically built AI agent look like in the wild—outside the hype? I talk with USF librarians Evan Fruehauf & LeEtta Schmidt about LINK—their 24/7 reference chatbot that they built with Microsoft Copilot Studio. Watch here: youtu.be/Z3zBU9bOQxw
#AILiteracy #EthicalAIUse
#AILiteracy #EthicalAIUse
Excited to share our work (w/ Yasser Atef, Anna Mills & Maha Bali + global colleagues) on how AI metaphors shape how we see & act toward AI—at the #HypeStudies conference, Barcelona, Spain
Paper: openpraxis.org/articles/10....
Recording: youtu.be/F5D4AsWwm5Y
#AILiteracy
Paper: openpraxis.org/articles/10....
Recording: youtu.be/F5D4AsWwm5Y
#AILiteracy
September 10, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Excited to share our work (w/ Yasser Atef, Anna Mills & Maha Bali + global colleagues) on how AI metaphors shape how we see & act toward AI—at the #HypeStudies conference, Barcelona, Spain
Paper: openpraxis.org/articles/10....
Recording: youtu.be/F5D4AsWwm5Y
#AILiteracy
Paper: openpraxis.org/articles/10....
Recording: youtu.be/F5D4AsWwm5Y
#AILiteracy
🔊 Happy Publication News! 🔊
Our new chapter is out! Kathleen Kennedy and I propose a practical AI & Data Literacy framework for higher ed that integrates critical + functional approaches into one model. #AILiteracy
Our new chapter is out! Kathleen Kennedy and I propose a practical AI & Data Literacy framework for higher ed that integrates critical + functional approaches into one model. #AILiteracy
September 9, 2025 at 11:27 PM
🔊 Happy Publication News! 🔊
Our new chapter is out! Kathleen Kennedy and I propose a practical AI & Data Literacy framework for higher ed that integrates critical + functional approaches into one model. #AILiteracy
Our new chapter is out! Kathleen Kennedy and I propose a practical AI & Data Literacy framework for higher ed that integrates critical + functional approaches into one model. #AILiteracy
🔊Last day (Aug 31) today to send your entries to our Writing Studies AI prompt library at the @WACClearingHous
wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
Writing Studies Prompt Library - The WAC Clearinghouse
wac.colostate.edu
August 31, 2025 at 3:17 PM
🔊Last day (Aug 31) today to send your entries to our Writing Studies AI prompt library at the @WACClearingHous
wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
wac.colostate.edu/repository/c...
Week 1 class videos for ENC3370: Writing with AI recorded. Let's go Fall semester!
August 24, 2025 at 11:15 PM
Week 1 class videos for ENC3370: Writing with AI recorded. Let's go Fall semester!
Testing the limits of “vibecoding” for digital rhetoric 🚀
For my ENC3370: Writing with AI class @joinusfenglish @CASatUSF, I built Eco_defender 🌱—an example of vibecoded video game.
🎮 Play here: mettalrose.github.io/eco_defender/?…
📂 Docs: github.com/mettalrose/eco_defender
#vibecodingng
For my ENC3370: Writing with AI class @joinusfenglish @CASatUSF, I built Eco_defender 🌱—an example of vibecoded video game.
🎮 Play here: mettalrose.github.io/eco_defender/?…
📂 Docs: github.com/mettalrose/eco_defender
#vibecodingng
eco_defender
https://mettalrose.github.io/eco_defender/?…
August 22, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Testing the limits of “vibecoding” for digital rhetoric 🚀
For my ENC3370: Writing with AI class @joinusfenglish @CASatUSF, I built Eco_defender 🌱—an example of vibecoded video game.
🎮 Play here: mettalrose.github.io/eco_defender/?…
📂 Docs: github.com/mettalrose/eco_defender
#vibecodingng
For my ENC3370: Writing with AI class @joinusfenglish @CASatUSF, I built Eco_defender 🌱—an example of vibecoded video game.
🎮 Play here: mettalrose.github.io/eco_defender/?…
📂 Docs: github.com/mettalrose/eco_defender
#vibecodingng