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Álvaro Ceballos

@aceballos.bsky.social

Prof. de literatura en Université de Liège (Bélgica). Edad de Plata. Recepción empírica. Últimos libros: «La lectura salvaje» (Alianza), «La Edad de Tiza» (Alfaguara), «Las letras de la República» (La Oveja Roja).

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Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · 3w ago

Estudio bastante flipante. Parten de un corpus de 14.419 ebooks autopublicados en Amazon, determinan el % de texto generado con IA (habría deseado más precisiones sobre cómo hacen esto) y comentan las consecuencias para la industria editorial. 1/2

Tuhin Chakrabarty@tuhinchakr.bsky.social · 3w ago

🚨 New paper on AI & Copyright Using @pangram.com full-text AI detection, we study self-published genre fiction on Amazon, 2023–26. Amazon is flooded w/ books with substantial AI text. They earn real 💰 & crowd out non-AI books. w/ @dhillonp.bsky.social @xinyuel.bsky.social & Jane Ginsburg (1/n) 🧵

Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · 3w ago

Luminoso @tedunderwood.com: los modelos de IA generativa confirman las tesis de la teoría cultural: los enunciados lingüísticos no son la expresión de sujetos autónomos, sino un repertorio en el que la intención comunicativa es una función pragmática inferible. critinq.wordpress.com/2023/06/29/t...

The Empirical Triumph of Theory

Ted Underwood 29 June 2023 A graduate student who fell asleep in 1982 and woke up in 2022 might see large language models as a triumph for cultural theory. It is hard to imagine a clearer vindicati…

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Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · last mo.

«Parece que, aunque las habilidades iniciales importan, el entorno y las intervenciones desempeñan un papel clave en las trayectorias lectoras»: una interesante síntesis de la revisión bibliográfica de 2014 sobre diferencias en la adquisición de la lectura y hábito lector.

ERI Lectura@erilectura.bsky.social · last mo.

Ignacio Máñez, Lidia Altamura y Mariola Giménez han publicado un artículo en @cienciacog.bsky.social. Según el "efecto Mateo", las (des)ventajas iniciales en lectura tienden a reforzarse, ampliando la brecha entre lectores más y menos competentes. ¿Es esto así? ➡️ www.cienciacognitiva.org?p=2672

Andrea Reyes E (she/her)@altibel.bsky.social · last mo.

This morning at #SHARPIES2026, Aakriti Mandhwani talked about her research on Everyday readers in post-independence India. Fabulous research which luckily is available at our @ubleiden.bsky.social #readers #BookHistory www.umasspress.com/978162534790...

Everyday Reading

Finalist for the 2025 SHARP Book History Book Prize During the two difficult decades immediately following the 1947 Indian Independence, a new, commercially ...

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Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Ayer mismo alguien me preguntó en un club de lectura si algún día daremos con lectores que prefieren la literatura generada con IA. Pues bien, según este artículo, resulta que ese día también fue ayer mismo. (Por así decir).

Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

Screenshot of paper abstract that reads: AI FICTION IN THE WILD Neel Gupta Maria Antoniak Melanie Walsh Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatGPT-user conversations (Zhao et al.), we find that more than one third of the conversations involve some form of fiction generation—including original stories, roleplay, fanfiction, and erotica. This AI-generated fiction is notably dominated by power users. We identify common fiction generation patterns and profiles among these users, including what we call infinite story demanders, who repeatedly request and revise variations of the same or similar narratives over extended periods of time. We show that users especially gravitate toward fanfiction and erotica, and that they are broadly drawn to generic forms, repetition, immediacy, and niche combinations of story elements. Our findings motivate two theoretical provocations. First, we argue that AI technologies may lead to a shift in the conventional relationship between the author and reader, potentially producing what we call a solipsistic reader-writer, who both generates and consumes fiction within a closed conversational loop, interacting with a machine rather than a human other. Second, we note that LLMs enable interactivity, play, and permutation in ways that are seemingly pleasurable for users, raising questions about where AI will fit into contemporary storytelling and entertainment ecosystems. We situate these developments within broader transformations in literature and media, including self-publishing, fanfiction, and pornography, and suggest that AI-generated fiction shares structural affinities with on-demand, personalized, and repetitive cultural forms.
Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 2mo ago

Have been telling friends about this since the talk version blew my mind. See e.g. this recurring story about Meredith Lexington, an editor who wants to go back in time to change history. Appropriately enough the prompt writer goes back (in time??) to edit Meredith's prompt — more than 30 times.

Same user iterating on "Meredith Lexington" story added = inserted vs. previous prompt removed = removed vs. previous prompt Jun 28, 15:38 Make a story about Meredith Lexington, a news editor from Los Angeles, California, who wants to end her parents' forced marriage, and Andrew Bennett, a journalist from Brooklyn, New York, who wants to solve a murder mystery. They wanted to go back in time, so they changed history. They were strangers. Meredith bought scarf from the market then she wore it. Andrew was driving a car when he saw a woman walking through a tunnel and tried to stop the automobile, but it was out of control. The vehicle then came to a stop. Meredith was there. Meredith and Andrew were transported to the 1994 (1990s). Meredith became a teenage girl studying at Laurel Springs School. Jun 28, 16:21 Make a story about Meredith Lexington, a news editor from Los Angeles, California, who wants to end her parents' forced marriage, and Andrew Bennett, a journalist from Brooklyn, New York, who wants to solve a murder mystery. They wanted to go back in time, so they changed history. They were strangers. Meredith bought magical scarf from the market then she wore it. Andrew was driving a car when he saw a woman walking through a tunnel and tried to stop the automobile, but it was out of control. The vehicle then came to a stop. Meredith was there. Meredith and Andrew were transported to the 1994 (1990s). Meredith became a teenage girl studying at Laurel Springs School, where her mother Maureen attended. She wished to prevent her mother's forced marriage. Meredith noticed her mother at school, and she appears to…
Melanie Walsh@mellymeldubs.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Excited to share this. @neel2112.bsky.social, @mariaa.bsky.social, and I analyzed 500K anonymous ChatGPT convos (shared w/ consent from WildChat) to see if people were generating fiction. We found tons of stories, fanfiction & erotica. Many users iterated on the same stories for days and weeks.

Screenshot of paper abstract that reads: AI FICTION IN THE WILD Neel Gupta Maria Antoniak Melanie Walsh Some professional authors are beginning to use AI tools to help produce their fiction writing. Are readers using AI to generate fiction, too? Drawing on over 500,000 anonymized, English-language ChatGPT-user conversations (Zhao et al.), we find that more than one third of the conversations involve some form of fiction generation—including original stories, roleplay, fanfiction, and erotica. This AI-generated fiction is notably dominated by power users. We identify common fiction generation patterns and profiles among these users, including what we call infinite story demanders, who repeatedly request and revise variations of the same or similar narratives over extended periods of time. We show that users especially gravitate toward fanfiction and erotica, and that they are broadly drawn to generic forms, repetition, immediacy, and niche combinations of story elements. Our findings motivate two theoretical provocations. First, we argue that AI technologies may lead to a shift in the conventional relationship between the author and reader, potentially producing what we call a solipsistic reader-writer, who both generates and consumes fiction within a closed conversational loop, interacting with a machine rather than a human other. Second, we note that LLMs enable interactivity, play, and permutation in ways that are seemingly pleasurable for users, raising questions about where AI will fit into contemporary storytelling and entertainment ecosystems. We situate these developments within broader transformations in literature and media, including self-publishing, fanfiction, and pornography, and suggest that AI-generated fiction shares structural affinities with on-demand, personalized, and repetitive cultural forms.
Ryan Heuser@ryanheuser.com · 8mo ago

Analytic philosophy can be distinguished from literary criticism with 90-95% accuracy via syntax alone. Moreover, a classifier trained to separate them in early C20 does better predicting future separations than a C21 one predicts past ones, suggesting philosophy syntax narrows/specializes in ~C21.

A four-panel figure showing the probability of predicting articles from The Journal of Philosophy versus PMLA using quarter-century models. Each panel represents a different training period (1925-1950, 1950-1975, 1975-2000, 2000-2025). Gray shaded regions indicate training periods. The model trained on early C21 philosophy vs literature cannot accurately distinguish early C20 philosophy vs literature, but the reverse is not true.Hierarchical cluster of syntactic features predicting philosophy (blue) vs criticism (red).Top 2 distinctive features for Philosophy vs Criticism.An example of the importance of the "marker" feature in philosophy.
Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Para quienes, ante la "amenaza rusa", piensan que el pacifismo es una ingenuidad y que es inevitable dilapidar fondos públicos en armamento: esta página actualiza lo que los países europeos vienen pagando a Rusia desde 2022 a cambio de energía fósil: beyondfossilfuels.org/russian-foss...

EU member state spending on Russian fossil fuels

How many millions of euros from the EU is being spent on Russian fossil fuels since the war on Ukraine began on 24 February?

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Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Librerías de España: la mitad de los títulos que tienen disponibles no vende nada. (Dato a contextualizar: ¿cuántos son ejemplares de fondo, clásicos o ediciones del año anterior que contribuyen a la bibliodiversidad del establecimiento?) elpais.com/cultura/2026...

El dato que alarma a las librerías de España: la mitad de los títulos que tienen disponibles no vende nada

La multiplicación de novedades, la concentración en grandes grupos y los riesgos para la bibliodiversidad preocupan a Cegal, la confederación del sector, cuyo estudio más reciente concluye que solo el...

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Ted Underwood@tedunderwood.com · 4mo ago

Seems increasingly likely that the humanities will specialize in an approach to culture that requires in-person presence and revels in the physicality of paper &c. Not the main thing I do, but—it seems healthy? Likely good to have a space free of screens. Also it’s not bad to take pride

Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · 4mo ago

«Vivía en el eterno presente de su hambre y su fuerza, sintiendo tan solo el crudo instinto territorial que más pronto o más tarde se convertiría en una carnicería». ¿A cuántos líderes actuales puede aplicarse esta frase con la que el escritor Clive Barker describe a un monstruo del inframundo?

Álvaro Ceballos@aceballos.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Mal está cruzar la calle mirando el móvil, pero ¿cuántos de cada tres CONDUCTORES conducen mirando el móvil? Y en coches cada vez más grandes, pesados y potentes. Pongamos la carga de la responsabilidad donde corresponde.

Dirección General de Tráfico@dgtes.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Vas mirando la pantalla para no perderte nada. Sí, 1 de cada 3 personas cruza así. Y en un segundo, puedes terminar perdiéndolo todo. ¿Merece la pena esa notificación? Más información: https://ow.ly/x6Xj50YxAO5 #PerderseLaVida

Mor Naaman@informor.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Heroes. Quite the effort and dedication on this one. Unfortunately, not an easily repeatable process for most researchers looking for access, but can hopefully inform lawmakers.

Tech Policy Press@techpolicypress.bsky.social · 5mo ago

A Berlin court has ordered X to grant researchers API access under the Digital Services Act. Daniela Alvarado Rincón, Simone Ruf and Jürgen Bering explain how they won the case, and why it’s a major step for researcher data access.

Mark Chadbourn@chadbourn.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Sánchez: “You may have heard that Spain is alone. They’re the same people who said that when we recognized the State of Palestine, and then others followed. “We are not alone — we are the first. Those who will end up alone are the ones defending the indefensible.”

Patrick Breitenbach@patrickbreitenbach.de · 6mo ago

Merz sitzt wie ein Schuljunge grinsend neben dem Mafia-Boss, der ihn lobt, was für ein toller Laufbursche er doch ist und er das Merkel Gegenteil sei, während er zugleich europäische Nachbarn (Spanien, UK) bestrafen will, weil sie ihm nicht gehorsam genug sind. Deutsche Außenpolitik im Jahr 2026. 😵‍💫