Presented at the Futures Thinking Inaugural Conference (1 October 2019), hosted by the The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities (University of Oxford). Argues that humans may not be receptive to computer-generated texts due to a perceived threat of human obsolesce.

1. Narratives of Narrative Systems:
Searching for the Human
in Computer-Generated Texts
LEAH HENRICKSON
L.R.HENRICKSON@LBORO.AC.UK
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1 October 2019

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https://twitter.com/factbot1 (Eric Drass); https://www.vaalibotti.fi (Immersive Automation);
https://talktotransformer.com (Adam King); http://tinyplaces.glitch.me (Emma Winston)

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5. I feel like I’m on the set of a sci-fi film.
I find I’m not engaging with the text in a way, because
I’m saying, how would I have written this, rather than
the robot writing it? Whereas before I just read it.
Now I'm going through thinking in my head, would I
do this differently if I had written this, compared to a
robot?
What is the point? It’s to make humans redundant.
@leahhenricksonTranscripts: https://doi.org/10.17028/rd.lboro.7923755

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8. We are deeply sorry for the unintended offensive and
hurtful tweets from Tay, which do not represent who
we are or what we stand for, nor how we designed
Tay.
[…]
We will remain steadfast in our efforts to learn from
this and other experiences as we work toward
contributing to an Internet that represents the best,
not the worst, of humanity.
Peter Lee, ‘Learning from Tay’s introduction’, Official Microsoft Blog (25 March 2016) <https://blogs.microsoft.com/blog/2016/03/25/learning-tays-introduction> @leahhenrickson

9. LEAH HENRICKSON
LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY
L.R.HENRICKSON@LBORO.AC.UK
@leahhenrickson