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“You act as Human, and I will act as AI”

Technological Rehearsals at the Interface

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 June 2024

Kathy Fang
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Abstract

Chatbots and natural language processing tools have emerged as a ubiquitous yet exceptional development of algorithmic performativity. The release of ChatGPT on 30 November 2022 signaled a sea change in language-learning technological-performative relations. ChatGPT programs human knowledge as a stylized, computational performance and rehearses the human as technological.

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Student Essay Contest Winner
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TDR , Volume 68 , Issue 2 , June 2024 , pp. 131 - 150
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© The Author(s), 2024. Published by Cambridge University Press for Tisch School of the Arts/NYU

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