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Jill Walker Rettberg

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LLMs are metaphor machines: orbital argumentation, misaligned citations, and scientific fabrication in AI-generated writing

Large language models are metaphor machines: they generate text based on similarities and proximity in their training data. I argue that this metaphor-based text generation leads to what John Gallagher calls orbital argumentation , where the generated text is pulled towards key concepts that, I argue, remain unn...

Jill Walker Rettberg · AI & SOCIETY · 0 citations

Open access Jun 2026

"YES! YES! I absolutely love this insight!" Affirmative Narration as Interactional Strategy in Dialogues with LLM Chatbots

This article analyses narrative mechanisms that are common in dialogues with LLM chatbots. In combination, these mechanisms produce an interactional strategy for maximising user engagement, which we call affirmative narration. Affirmative narration serves to convince users of the chatbot’s utility. We analyse three...

Hanna-Riikka Roine, Anne Sigrid Refsum, Jill Walker Rettberg · Narrative Inquiry · 1 citation