Professor of English at Lehigh University. Anglophone Postcolonial; Modernism; African American Literature; Digital Humanities.
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Amardeep Singh
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4. What people are reacting to is that scholars here developed a complex system for using LLMs to potentially fill in apparent gaps in the archives but failed to actually fill in any such gaps themselves, either by humanizing figures like Guyton or by making primary sources they used available.
"I am happy to report that after 33 years of working in English departments, I have been completely cured of my Anglophilia."
A lot of great stuff in this UC-Berkeley commencement address from @vietthanhnguyen.bsky.social, published in @pghreviewofbooks.bsky.social
pghrev.com/address-to-t...
A congenial and witty introduction to a controversy many of us had hitherto been avoiding. (Hint: trans issues are a not-small part of what’s driving these people.)
Very helpful breakdown!
(In my own work, I tend to think Structure Neutral + Content Radical.)
3. In the article, documents relating to Tyrone Guyton's story are used as a test case. Can we get the machine to fill in the gaps in the timeline? etc. But not a lot of humanizing backstory about this murdered African American teenager that shows the researchers care about what happened to him.
1. One takeaway is that there is a collection of 20,000+ unpublished documents called the "Black Writing and Thought Collection" at the University of Chicago. I would love to have a look at it--but it's behind a paywall.
Why not make this open access?
textual-optics-lab.uchicago.edu/black_writing
2. In the article, they use a 14 year old boy named Tyrone Guyton from Emeryville, CA as a case study.
He was shot in the back by police in 1973; his killers were never prosecuted. There is very little about him on the open internet, though I did find this:
evilleeye.com/history/evil...
I resisted commenting on the "Critical Confabulation: Can LLMs Hallucinate for Social Good?" essay until I read it. It's undoubtedly a strange use-case for generative AI and intentional "confabulation," but instead of piling on, below are a couple of questions.
arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722
"The result is not precisely Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day; maybe more EM Forster’s Night and Day or even Ronald Firbank’s Night and Day."
(Sounds pretty good to me, actually...)
www.theguardian.com/film/2026/ju...
Marjane Satrapi RIP
This commencement address was delivered to the graduating English majors at the University of California, Berkely on May 20th, 2026. Thank you to Viet Thanh
