36.905, Confs: The Notion of Authenticity in Hybrid Human/AI Productions (France)

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Subject: 36.905, Confs: The Notion of Authenticity in Hybrid Human/AI Productions (France)

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Date: 14-Mar-2025
From: Sophia Burnett [sophia.burnett at univ-lorraine.fr]
Subject: The Notion of Authenticity in Hybrid Human/AI Productions


The Notion of Authenticity in Hybrid Human/AI Productions

Date: 14-Mar-2025 - 14-Mar-2025
Location: Université de Lorraine, Nancy & Online, France
Contact: Sophia Burnett
Contact Email: sophia.burnett at univ-lorraine.fr
Meeting URL: https://sites.google.com/view/je-authenticity/home

Linguistic Field(s): Applied Linguistics; Computational Linguistics;
Discourse Analysis; Ling & Literature; Text/Corpus Linguistics

The Faculty of Arts, Letters and Languages, the IDEA research unit
[UR2338], and the LLECT cluster of the Université de Lorraine invite
you to an interdisciplinary study day: The notion of authenticity in
hybrid human/IA productions.
Friday, March 14 - 9:00-18:00
Université de Lorraine, Campus LSH Nancy, and online.
This day will bring together experts from several disciplines related
to language sciences to examine how the notion of authenticity is
maintained, transformed or redefined in the practice of hybrid
productions.
Presentations will be in English or French. There will be a call for
papers after the event, for a special edition of an open access
journal.
For the general public, the term "Artificial Intelligence" represents
something greater than the sum of its parts. However, this gestalt is
merely the generative capacity of computational models to produce
amalgamations of signs, images, or sounds in response to human input.
Despite being trained on billions of words from human sources (Zhao,
Zhou, et al., 2023:11), generative AI outputs do not stem from
embodied experience or empirical, non-digitally mediated reflection.
In human/computer hybrid productions, the human contribution holds a
distinct value: "We know from the science of linguistics and the
philosophy of knowledge that they differ profoundly from how humans
reason and use language" (Chomsky, Roberts, et al., 2023).
Since Hume, it has been widely accepted that thought (as an abstract
representation) is rooted in lived experience and the stimuli of a
living body (see O’Connor, 2025); the same applies to the connection
between abstract symbols and words. Thus, we may question the nature
of hybrid productions involving LLMs and generative AI. Discussions of
authenticity often center on the search for an original thought, the
primary intention behind words, or authorship attribution. In these
hybrid productions, authenticity appears to emerge from a combination
of randomness and human individuality guiding the interaction.
However, the hybrid nature of a production does not necessarily make
it more authentic in the eyes of other humans than a fully
AI-generated work (Zhao, Song, et al., 2023:368).
Authenticity has long been an important concept because it touches on
two fundamental pillars of our species: identity and truth. This
interdisciplinary journée d’études will bring together researchers
from several countries to explore and analyze the notion from
different perspectives, enhancing our understanding of our role in
this new paradigm of hybrid production— of which the longevity and
influence are tied to that of digitally mediated communication.
At the conclusion of this event, selected papers will be published in
a special issue of an open-access journal. A call for contributions
will be announced at a later date.



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