Rita Raley

Rita Raley is Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara, with courtesy appointments in Film and Media Studies, Comparative Literature, and Global Studies. Her recent work engaging AI/machine learning from a humanities perspective has been published in PMLA; Digital Humanities Quarterly; American Literature; Poetics Today; Understanding Flusser, Understanding Modernism; Public; and symplokē. She has an essay on generative AI in the forthcoming volume, Informatics of Domination, and is currently working on a project on GPT-2.

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Inappropriate AI

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Rita Raley

Inappropriate AI

Critical Machine Learning Studies: An Interview with Fabian Offert and Rita Raley