A quote from the blog overlaying an image generated with Adobe Firefly, responding to the prompt "an author training a generative language model on their own corpus of writing". (Full image description on website.) The text reads: “I am not looking for a surrogate to take over the writing processes that I so adore. My experiments with technology, including machine learning, are designed to augment rather than replace my creative practice. I write because of an overwhelming impulse to contextualise my experiences within literary and sociopolitical fields; technology offers ways of expanding the known. Training a SLM to speak in my voice and style—what I think of as digital mimesis—offers new entry points into my research interests around archives and the multiple self. A self-mimetic model becomes a kind of living archive—queryable, a laboratory for testing authorial identity and versioned selves.”
Join Jenny Hedley on her second adventure into programming “JenAI”, a small language model built on 280,000 words of her own writing.
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