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Tyne Daile Sumner

Tyne Daile Sumner is an Australian Research Council DECRA Fellow in English & Digital Humanities at the Australian National University.

Algorithm non grata: The relentless banality of LLMs

In regurgitating the dominant scientific account of human evolution, LLMs adopt a particular stylistic posture: one that privileges qualification over commitment, context over certitude, expansion over a foray into humour, irony, or sarcasm. They’re like the corporate psychopath who, when presented with a task that requires nuance and a bit of wit, impulsively blurts: “Let’s map this out, shall we!”

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Portrait, Lyric, Code: Reading the Face Before and After Laura Riding Jackson’s Body’s Head

A young woman sits partially side-on. Her right hand is wrapped lightly around her left wrist.
She wears no necklace, no rings. She sits against a blue sky.

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Mosaically Speaking: Pieces of Lionel Fogarty’s Poetics

As the Hong Kong riots reach their sixth consecutive week, I’m emailing a friend at Hong Kong University who writes about liberty and subjection.

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