Literature in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
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As part of the Theory Colloquiuim series hosted by the Department of Comparative Literature at Cornell University, Imani was invited to speak at one colloquia whose theme surrounded translation. Her presentation on a chapter of her undergraduate honors thesis, “By AI: Authorship, Literature, and Large Language Models,” examined how literature translates the self and human experience and then posing question of if and should we expect generative AI (ChatGPT, in particular) to do the same.