Leah Henrickson
Biographic Data
| ID | 1377362 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leah Henrickson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leah |
| FAMILY NAME | Henrickson |
| SIGNATURE | HENRICKSON L |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Queensland |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8008-2373 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Revisiting computer authorship: A longitudinal perspective
Despite the proliferation of computer-generated texts, the concept of AI authorship remains ambiguous. This paper investigates evolving public perceptions of authorship pertaining to computer-generated texts through review of an international survey distributed in 2024/2025. Comparing results of this survey to those from the same survey distributed in 2017/2018, this paper offers what we believe to be the only longitudinal empirical consideration…
Tell me a story: A framework for critically investigating AI language models
Large language models are rapidly being rolled out into high-stakes fields like healthcare, law, and education.However, understanding of their design considerations, operational logics, and implicit biases remains limited.How might these black boxes be understood and unpacked?In this article, we lay out an accessible but critical framework for inquiry, a pedagogical tool with four dimensions.Tell me your story investigates the design and values o…
Prompting meaning: A hermeneutic approach to optimising prompt engineering with ChatGPT
Recent advances in natural language generation (NLG), such as public accessibility to ChatGPT, have sparked polarised debates about the societal impact of this technology. Popular discourse tends towards either overoptimistic hype that touts the radically transformative potentials of these systems or pessimistic critique of their technical limitations and general ‘stupidity’. Surprisingly, these debates have largely overlooked the exegetical capa…
Everything to everyone, all at once: Digital human versions as objects of agency and surrender
This article explores the sociocultural implications of digital human versions, drawing parallels between the self-objectification in Marina Abramović’s 1974 performance Rhythm 0 and that in recent AI-driven digital version CarynAI, a chatbot run by a social media influencer in 2023–2024. A digital version is a digital replica of an embodied human, living or dead, that convincingly mimics that person’s textual, visual and aural habits, and exists…
Conversations with No One
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots
In 2021, the San Francisco Chronicle released a feature article about a man who chose to resurrect his deceased fiancée by training a chatbot system built on OpenAI’s GPT language models on her old digital messages. He then had emotional conversations with this chatbot, which appeared to accurately mimic the deceased’s writing style. This case study raises questions about the communicative influences of thanabots: chatbots trained on data of the …
Soft skills, stories, and self-reflection: Applied digital storytelling for self-branding
This paper documents an analytical autoethnographic approach to the development of a digital storytelling (DST) app for enhancing young adults’ employability prospects. Development is rooted in the classical DST approach proposed by StoryCenter Founding Director Joe Lambert. Blending theoretical consideration and empirical user testing (individual user observations and a co-creation workshops), we affirm the value of DST – and classical DST espec…
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines
This article proposes the notion of the 'Lovelace Effect' as an analytical tool to identify situations in which the behaviour of computing systems is perceived by users as original and creative. It contrasts the Lovelace Effect with the more commonly known 'Lovelace objection', which claims that computers cannot originate or create anything, but only do what their programmers instruct them to do. By analysing the case study of AICAN - an AI art-g…
The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts
As cultural circumstances become increasingly digital, the importance of theoretical frameworks guiding calculated considerations of authorial intention and reader response is being reaffirmed. The framework proposed in this article is that of hermeneutics: the study of understanding, of processes of meaning-making. Although explicit application of hermeneutics has fallen out of fashion, the field is especially valuable for critically approaching…
Reading Computer-Generated Texts
Natural language generation (NLG) is the process wherein computers produce output in readable human languages. Such output takes many forms, including news articles, sports reports, prose fiction, and poetry. These computer-generated texts are often indistinguishable from human-written texts, and they are increasingly prevalent. NLG is here, and it is everywhere. However, readers are often unaware that what they are reading has been computer-gene…
Juan Enriquez, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics reviewed by Leah Henrickson
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller
Reviewed by: The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller Leah Henrickson (bio) Arthur I. Miller, The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019, 399 pp. $29.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. "Will computers ever think like us? Could they ever have flashes of inspiration like we do or come up with mad ideas? ... Or do they need to? Perhaps they will function in totally …
Scenarios of countercultural representation: An analysis of inventory books’ visualities
This article explores the social implications of the page layouts of ‘inventory books’, a series of non-fiction mass-market paperbacks published during the 1960s and 70s that employed eccentric printing strategies characterized primarily by a proliferation of imagery and nonlinear text layout and argumentation. Inventory books all use text and imagery in unique ways, appearing to include visual cultural references with connotative value that woul…
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines
This article proposes the notion of the 'Lovelace Effect' as an analytical tool to identify situations in which the behaviour of computing systems is perceived by users as original and creative. It contrasts the Lovelace Effect with the more commonly known 'Lovelace objection', which claims that computers cannot originate or create anything, but only do what their programmers instruct them to do. By analysing the case study of AICAN - an AI art-g…
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots
In 2021, the San Francisco Chronicle released a feature article about a man who chose to resurrect his deceased fiancée by training a chatbot system built on OpenAI’s GPT language models on her old digital messages. He then had emotional conversations with this chatbot, which appeared to accurately mimic the deceased’s writing style. This case study raises questions about the communicative influences of thanabots: chatbots trained on data of the …
The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts
As cultural circumstances become increasingly digital, the importance of theoretical frameworks guiding calculated considerations of authorial intention and reader response is being reaffirmed. The framework proposed in this article is that of hermeneutics: the study of understanding, of processes of meaning-making. Although explicit application of hermeneutics has fallen out of fashion, the field is especially valuable for critically approaching…
Scenarios of countercultural representation: An analysis of inventory books’ visualities
This article explores the social implications of the page layouts of ‘inventory books’, a series of non-fiction mass-market paperbacks published during the 1960s and 70s that employed eccentric printing strategies characterized primarily by a proliferation of imagery and nonlinear text layout and argumentation. Inventory books all use text and imagery in unique ways, appearing to include visual cultural references with connotative value that woul…
The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller
Reviewed by: The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity by Arthur I. Miller Leah Henrickson (bio) Arthur I. Miller, The Artist in the Machine: The World of AI-Powered Creativity. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2019, 399 pp. $29.95 cloth, $19.95 paper. "Will computers ever think like us? Could they ever have flashes of inspiration like we do or come up with mad ideas? ... Or do they need to? Perhaps they will function in totally …
Reading Computer-Generated Texts
Natural language generation (NLG) is the process wherein computers produce output in readable human languages. Such output takes many forms, including news articles, sports reports, prose fiction, and poetry. These computer-generated texts are often indistinguishable from human-written texts, and they are increasingly prevalent. NLG is here, and it is everywhere. However, readers are often unaware that what they are reading has been computer-gene…
Juan Enriquez, Right/Wrong: How Technology Transforms Our Ethics reviewed by Leah Henrickson
Soft skills, stories, and self-reflection: Applied digital storytelling for self-branding
This paper documents an analytical autoethnographic approach to the development of a digital storytelling (DST) app for enhancing young adults’ employability prospects. Development is rooted in the classical DST approach proposed by StoryCenter Founding Director Joe Lambert. Blending theoretical consideration and empirical user testing (individual user observations and a co-creation workshops), we affirm the value of DST – and classical DST espec…
The Lovelace effect: Perceptions of creativity in machines
This article proposes the notion of the 'Lovelace Effect' as an analytical tool to identify situations in which the behaviour of computing systems is perceived by users as original and creative. It contrasts the Lovelace Effect with the more commonly known 'Lovelace objection', which claims that computers cannot originate or create anything, but only do what their programmers instruct them to do. By analysing the case study of AICAN - an AI art-g…
The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts
As cultural circumstances become increasingly digital, the importance of theoretical frameworks guiding calculated considerations of authorial intention and reader response is being reaffirmed. The framework proposed in this article is that of hermeneutics: the study of understanding, of processes of meaning-making. Although explicit application of hermeneutics has fallen out of fashion, the field is especially valuable for critically approaching…
Chatting with the dead: The hermeneutics of thanabots
In 2021, the San Francisco Chronicle released a feature article about a man who chose to resurrect his deceased fiancée by training a chatbot system built on OpenAI’s GPT language models on her old digital messages. He then had emotional conversations with this chatbot, which appeared to accurately mimic the deceased’s writing style. This case study raises questions about the communicative influences of thanabots: chatbots trained on data of the …
Conversations with No One
Tell me a story: A framework for critically investigating AI language models
Large language models are rapidly being rolled out into high-stakes fields like healthcare, law, and education.However, understanding of their design considerations, operational logics, and implicit biases remains limited.How might these black boxes be understood and unpacked?In this article, we lay out an accessible but critical framework for inquiry, a pedagogical tool with four dimensions.Tell me your story investigates the design and values o…
Prompting meaning: A hermeneutic approach to optimising prompt engineering with ChatGPT
Recent advances in natural language generation (NLG), such as public accessibility to ChatGPT, have sparked polarised debates about the societal impact of this technology. Popular discourse tends towards either overoptimistic hype that touts the radically transformative potentials of these systems or pessimistic critique of their technical limitations and general ‘stupidity’. Surprisingly, these debates have largely overlooked the exegetical capa…
Everything to everyone, all at once: Digital human versions as objects of agency and surrender
This article explores the sociocultural implications of digital human versions, drawing parallels between the self-objectification in Marina Abramović’s 1974 performance Rhythm 0 and that in recent AI-driven digital version CarynAI, a chatbot run by a social media influencer in 2023–2024. A digital version is a digital replica of an embodied human, living or dead, that convincingly mimics that person’s textual, visual and aural habits, and exists…
Revisiting computer authorship: A longitudinal perspective
Despite the proliferation of computer-generated texts, the concept of AI authorship remains ambiguous. This paper investigates evolving public perceptions of authorship pertaining to computer-generated texts through review of an international survey distributed in 2024/2025. Comparing results of this survey to those from the same survey distributed in 2017/2018, this paper offers what we believe to be the only longitudinal empirical consideration…
Philosophy (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Epistemology (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Ethics and Social Impacts of AI (3 works) · Hermeneutics (3 works) · Law (3 works)