The unbearable oldness of generative artificial intelligence: Or the re-making of digital narratives in times of ChatGPT

BKC Faculty Associate Nishant Shah offers accounts of two moments in computational history to reframe conversations around generative AI.

"These two accounts are not meant to be exhaustive or definitive ways of understanding the new questions that emerge in the face of Gen-AI-authored narratives, but they open up a way of refusing the breathless rhetoric of newness and unexpectedness that often surrounds the manifestation of these narratives."

Read more in the European Journal of Cultural Studies.