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Wouter Haverals @wouterhaverals.bsky.social · 1d

Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5× stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with @mmvty.bsky.social 👇

Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 1d

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 1d

🗞️ New from CDH's @mmvty.bsky.social & @wouterhaverals.bsky.social: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans ‼️ Read their preprint out now: arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831, and read the thread below for more insights.

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Meredith Martin @mmvty.bsky.social · 1d

📣 New preprint! We know humans are biased against AI-creativity. But what about LLMs, now often judging creativity in various contexts? Do they replicate, transform, or amplify this bias? We tested it. Turns out: AI is 2.5X more biased against its own work than humans. arxiv.org/pdf/2510.08831 🧵

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 7d

#NnediOkorafor @chikaokekeagulu.bsky.social

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 7d

The latest in our #HumanitiesForAI Q&A series: @nnedi.bsky.social joined us in April at @princeton.edu to discuss her new novel, Death of the Author, and the future of storytelling in the age of AI. Read some of her hopes, concerns, and insights on the impact of AI in writing and the humanities. ✨

The Future of Storytelling in the Age of AI: Q&A with Nnedi Okorafor

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 15d

Modeling Culture is generously funded by a @princetonainews.bsky.social seed grant, with additional support from the Humanities Council and the @princeton.edu Humanities Initiative. Thank you to @princetonenglish.bsky.social for co-sponsorship of the public talks.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 17d

How can AI and other computational approaches help us to understand the distant past? @jrladd.com will share work from two cultural analytics projects that address these challenges by combining analog research methods and machine learning to study the print culture of the 16th and 17th centuries.

Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 29d

Sep 29: "Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print" with John Ladd (@jrladd.com), Assistant Professor in Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College. Info/RSVP:

Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 29d

"This year's return to campus feels particularly consequential—it’s a moment when destabilizing shifts in higher education are intersecting with the dizzying pace of AI development," shares @mmvty.bsky.social. Read the full welcome back letter and more on our ongoing 'Humanities for AI' initiative.

Welcome back, CDH community!

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 29d

Nov 18: "Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture" with Anna Preus, Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Washington. Info/RSVP:

Publishing Empire: Modeling Early 20th-Century British Book Culture

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 29d

Nov 17: "Viral Authors: Postwar American Literature in the Age of Social Media and AI " with Melanie Walsh (@mellymeldubs.bsky.social), Assistant Professor in the Information School and Adjunct Assistant Professor in the English Department at the University of Washington. Info/RSVP:

Viral Authors: Postwar American Literature in the Age of Social Media and AI

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 29d

Sep 29: "Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print" with John Ladd (@jrladd.com), Assistant Professor in Computing and Information Studies at Washington & Jefferson College. Info/RSVP:

Human and Machine Intelligence in Networks of Early Modern Print

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 29d

Modeling Culture explores AI not only as a technology to critique, but as a new mode of inquiry for research and interpretation. Three interconnected components will unfold in 2025-26: a faculty and grad seminar, a public lecture series, and an open-access curriculum. Public talk details in thread👇

CDH Launches Modeling Culture: New Humanities Practices in the Age of AI

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · 29d

"This year's return to campus feels particularly consequential—it’s a moment when destabilizing shifts in higher education are intersecting with the dizzying pace of AI development," shares @mmvty.bsky.social. Read the full welcome back letter and more on our ongoing 'Humanities for AI' initiative.

Welcome back, CDH community!

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 8

September newsletter tomorrow! 🗞️ You can sign up for that here (where you can also find us elsewhere online).

Connect with us online

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 8

Here's our story on last year's program: cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/02...

Advancing Medieval Manuscript Transcription: Insights from the Vienna HTR Winter School

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 8

In July, CDH Project Manager @marynaydan.bsky.social held a Project Management 101 workshop for the academic deans of Princeton’s residential colleges, covering PM theory, methods, project charters, and best practices for effective meetings. Read more here: cdh.princeton.edu/blog/2025/08...

Everything Project Management with Mary Naydan: A Workshop with the Academic Deans

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 6

A second SCOOP workshop will be hosted by the Austrian Academy of Sciences, reconvening in Vienna in summer 2026.

This conference was organized by Helmut Reimitz, Christine Roughan, and Lucia Waldschuetz, along with Suzanne Akbari and Natalia Ermolaev.

Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 6

The conference also included a comprehensive three-day ATR/HTR Training Workshop designed to train graduate students and scholars with various experience levels and backgrounds in text recognition technology.

Christine Roughan presents to a room of graduate students and scholars with laptops out on the table.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 6

The intensive think tank centered on the challenge of adapting existing technologies for diverse scripts, textual traditions, and manuscript structures, especially for understudied languages and materials. (Photo: @cmroughan.bsky.social presenting to the group)

Christine Roughan speaks at a podium during the SCOOP conference.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 6

In June, an international network of humanists and technologists joined forces to advance historical text recognition and research at the Source Codes of the Past (SCOOP) conference at Princeton.

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Humanists and Technologists Join Forces to Advance Historical Text Recognition and Research

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 5

Welcome, Paul Vierthaler (@vierth.bsky.social), assistant professor of Chinese literature and interdisciplinary data science, to the CDH as our associate faculty director! His expertise in East Asian DH will advance our recent emphasis on multilingual DH. We are lucky to have Paul among us!

Paul Vierthaler appointed CDH associate faculty director

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 4

The call for applications for the HTR Winter School in Vienna is live! CDH/MARBAS postdoc @cmroughan.bsky.social is one of the group organizers and instructors again this year. The application deadline is September 15th, 2025. www.oeaw.ac.at/en/imafo/eve...

HTR Winter School 2025 | Call for Applications!

Handwritten Text Recognition of Historical Sources

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 4

And, finally, competitive spreadsheeting! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/au...

Excelling in … Excel? Inside the high-stakes, secretive world of competitive spreadsheeting

New documentary Spreadsheet Champions follows six competitors as they head to the Microsoft Office Specialist world championship in Florida

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 4

Meredith also shared this one about frugal tech. "Tech bros may want you to believe there is no point in making something new unless it is difficult, inaccessible and exclusionary," writes author Eleanor Drage. "But technological innovation is about collaboration as much as it is about competition."

Enough of the billionaires and their big tech. ‘Frugal tech’ will build us all a better world | Eleanor Drage

Titans like Musk would love us to believe innovation means top-down solutions that only enrich the wealthy. In fact, we all have the power, says Eleanor Drage, research fellow at Cambridge University

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 4

Speaking of AI, @mmvty.bsky.social sent us to this BBC article about an AI system named Aeneas that can "fill in missing words from ancient Roman inscriptions carved on monuments and everyday objects, as well as dating and placing them geographically." Very cool! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Gaps in what we know about ancient Romans could be filled by AI - BBC News

A new system fills in missing words from ancient inscriptions carved on monuments and everyday objects.

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Center for Digital Humanities @princetoncdh.bsky.social · Sep 4

"How Tech Companies Are Pushing Us to Use AI" (translated from French). One interesting observation: AI buttons and branding are often purple, a color often "associated to magic." limitesnumeriques.fr/travaux-prod...

How tech companies are pushing us to use AI | Limites numériques

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