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X-WR-CALNAME:Vauhini Vara | The Impact of AI on Writing: What We Stand to G
 ain — and Lose — in Communication
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DESCRIPTION:In 2021\, the novelist and journalist Vauhini Vara asked a pred
 ecessor of ChatGPT to write about her sister’s death\, resulting in an e
 ssay that was both more moving and more disturbing than she could have ima
 gined. It quickly went viral. The experience\, revealing both the power an
 d the danger of corporate-owned technologies\, led Vara on an investigatio
 n of what we gain and what we lose when we use large language models to he
 lp us communicate. In this seminar\, she will discuss this experience and 
 other similar literary experiments with AI models — including what happe
 ned when she fed most of her recently released book Searches into ChatGPT 
 and asked for feedback — as a springboard to discuss the difference betw
 een human- and AI-produced text and how AI could change the way all of us\
 , writers or not\, communicate.
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LOCATION:Gates Computer Science Building\, 119
SUMMARY:Vauhini Vara | The Impact of AI on Writing: What We Stand to Gain 
 — and Lose — in Communication
URL;VALUE=URI:https://events.stanford.edu/event/vauhini-vara-the-impact-of-
 ai-on-writing-what-we-stand-to-gain-and-lose-in-communication
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