Image of Anuj Gupta's slide for the presentation with a photo of him and the title of the talk
I had a great time today delivering the keynote lecture at the University of Central Florida's Knights Write Conference, titled "AI Slop: What, Why, How? - Understanding, Diagnosing, and Tackling the Flood of Low-Quality AI Content"
Thanks so much to the organisers!
cah.ucf.edu/writingrheto...
Such a helpful piece on what is meant by “AI agent.” Includes context on the quest for AGI and lists characteristics associated with “agents”:
“complex problem solving,
tool use with potential independence from a chatbot dialog interface,
autonomy,
specialization,
optional persona”
Thanks to @annamillsoer.bsky.social, I've become more attuned to the slipperiness of the term "GenAI agent" which means so many different things to so many different people. Here is my current understanding of the term, which I'm looking forward to refine and expand: substack.com/home/post/p-...
Thanks so much for amplifying my work, Anna! :)
Excited to dive into @mettalrose.bsky.social's dissertation, ‘Learning To Talk to Generative AI Chatbots’: A Corpus Study of Generative AI Prompts, an Emerging Genre for AI Literacy repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...
Sloan is always perceptive, and here I think he's put his finger on something important.
It's not just that language models are good at code, but that they're good at helping people translate their problems *into* code.
They both create a new opportunity surface and reduce barriers to entry there.
For those of you interested in issues of copyright and privacy with regards to GenAI, here is a very important recent legal development that would be helpful to talk about with students in AI literacy units:
www.reuters.com/legal/govern...
For academic writers, editors, and publishers looking for a systematic overview of emerging GenAI policies in an academic field, please see Yin and Chapelle's (2025) excellent paper which provides this for the field of applied linguistics: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Grateful for this feature by Georgia Jackson about my work on GenAI literacy at @CASatUSF. So grateful to be working with amazing colleagues at @joinusfenglish as we help shape what literacy means in the age of GenAI.
www.usf.edu/arts-science...
My PhD dissertation is now available for download to anyone in the world 🙂
‘Learning To Talk to Generative AI Chatbots’: A Corpus Study of Generative AI Prompts, an Emerging Genre for AI Literacy
repository.arizona.edu/handle/10150...
As we wrap up 2025 and prep Spring 2026 syllabi, GenAI policies are on top of everyone's mind. I built a simple question-based heuristic to clarify my own thinking on GenAI for my class. If you’re drafting a GenAI policy, consider this to guide you: mettalrose.substack.com/p/heuristic-...
An important milestone of growing as a researcher involves transitioning from ignoring or rushing through literature reviews while reading research articles, to admiring and savouring them, especially when they are really well done.
An important milestone of growing as a researcher involves transitioning from ignoring or rushing through literature reviews while reading research articles, to admiring and savouring them, especially when they are really well done.
Course Description (4/4): This course will help you navigate these emerging possibilities and uncertainties by developing GenAI literacies, which refers to a range of functional and critical skills that will help you feel confident about navigating the impact of GenAI in your professional lives.
Course Description (3/4): Many are excited about the new opportunities for meaning-making that these tools make possible, while there are also rising ethical concerns like the potential automation of traditional jobs that these tools might enable.
Course Description (2/4): It is both an exciting and scary time to be a college student, with Generative AI writing technologies rapidly transforming how we read, write, and learn.
Poster for Dr. Anuj Gupta's class ENC 3370: Writing Technologies (Generative AI Literacies for Professional Contexts).
Gearing up for teaching next semester at USF!
ENC 3370: Writing Technologies
(Generative AI Literacies for Professional Contexts)
Artwork by Yutong Liu & Digit / betterimagesofai.org / creativecommons.org/licenses/by/...
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The brilliant movie "Humans in the loop" that shows AI development from the perspective of data labellers in India--whose knowledge systems often come into conflict with the annotation protocols they work with--is now on Netflix! Excellent to show in AI literacy classes:
youtu.be/t0bB5X98TrQ?...
A really important but occluded research skill is finding and categorizing sources into a personal library that you can draw from when you write. Realizing more and more everyday that folder management in Zotero is something really worth investing time and energy into.
"What why how when where" are the main question words in English which shape research inquiries in the west. Do you know of any other kinds of question words, probably from other languages or cultures which open up possibilities for asking different research questions than what English allows?
After three years of researching GenAI prompt engineering, here is what I've learnt:
(#SIGODC25)
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
After 3 years of researching AI prompt engineering, here is where my thinking is right now. This is an extended version of a presentation I gave at #SIGODC25:
GenAI Alignment is a wicked problem:
Prompt engineering is one of many ways we can tackle parts of it
open.substack.com/pub/mettalro...
Image is the first page of a slide-deck. Title: Mapping the emerging rhetorical landscape of AI prompt engineering. Details of speakers: Anuj Gupta, University of South Florida, Lance Cummings, UNC Wilmington, Christine Masters-Wheeler, Francis Marion University, Nupoor Ranade, Carnegie Mellon University Session 1B: Room 213 (SUB Playa) Friday, Oct 24, 8.30-9.30 CST| SIGDOC 2025
If you are at #SIGDOC25 please join us to reflect on the emerging rhetorical landspace of AI prompt engineering!
What I'm teaching in my class module on GenAI Ethics this week: GenAI and the Messiness of Copyright (a reading recommendation)
mettalrose.substack.com/p/genai-and-...
Folks interested in LLMs built keeping ethics at forefront, @huggingface “Omni Chat" gives access to over 100 open-source models. Some, like Apertus in it, are multilingual, trained on publicly available texts, & designed to minimize environmental impact: huggingface.co/chat/models/...
i’m less concerned about this now. i experienced deep flow vibecoding yesterday. in some ways it was actually deeper than manual coding because (when it worked well) i was able to explore ideas and directions that would normally take me days (due to lack of domain knowledge, boilerplate etc)
What do you guys think of the outlook emoji reaction feature where we can respond to an email with something like a thumbs up or a heart? I kind of like it because it makes a bureaucratic genre more humane, but I also wonder if to some people, this feature seems a little out of place :D
Thanks so much for the shoutout @heatherfro.bsky.social! Grateful to be building coding capacities in the humanities with you : )
Also, appreicate @literaturegeek.bsky.social taking out the time to live-skeet the talk!
This is the craziest genre-map of musical sub-genres on the internet. Will take a lifetime to explore this. What a treasure! everynoise.com
Each sub-genre you select also leads to a spotify playlist of artists you can explore!
This is the craziest genre-map of musical sub-genres on the internet. Will take a lifetime to explore this. What a treasure! everynoise.com
