Wouter Haverals

Can AI be creative if it doesn't believe it can? We asked 556 humans and 13 LLMs to judge creative writing. Then we lied about who wrote what. Result: AI has learned to distrust itself, showing 2.5× stronger bias than humans against AI-labeled creativity. Proud of this work with @mmvty.bsky.social 👇

A modest proposal: if you cite the "LLM as judge" paper, you should only get AI reviews

this is very exciting paper, but for me the biggest insight is that classic LDA still goes hard as a topic model. using SAE features as inputs to topic models is uncanny, like strapping a vivisected reader to a corpus. just look at mLDA topics for Wheatley here: they are aware of ~context~

Coming up on 10/6! @leifw.bsky.social discusses the epistemic order that LLMs are currently spreading throughout our culture, from policy to science to writing. More info & RSVP (requested) @ the link! Presented in partnership with CDH, Media+Modernity, and @princeton.edu Humanities Initiative.

At a microconference on public feedback for AI, I argued for a turn from architectures of legibility to architectures of participation.

"football is the most important of the least important things in life" (dixit Ancelotti); "suspensions are the most suspendable things in life" (dixit FIFA) #tousensemble

#MappingtheCanon meets the Princeton Prosody Archive: @wouterhaverals.bsky.social talks about how the canon is represented in the PPA:

i've been saving calling something "epic" for the right occasion. the occasion has arrived.

Here I am! 🤗 - what is the point of #digitalhumanities in a world which is on fire? and how has DH changed over the past 20 years? My personal take:

Colleagues from all over the world, please think about the combination DH2027 in Ireland + CCLS 2027 in the Netherlands. They're only a few days apart. @uniofgalway.bsky.social @rug.nl

come for the AI, stay for the humans! @princetoncdh.bsky.social is hiring!

Big let down, to be honest

Interested in Computational Literary Studies? Then it might be worth following #CCLS2026 today and tomorrow, folks! #ComputationalLiteraryStudies

You can literally watch repression & displacement consolidate over fine-tuning: here's next-token probs across checkpoints of OLMo-3-7B-Think-SFT. Explicit words are repressed almost instantly but safer (displaced) alternatives emerge much later. It learns what not to say before what to say instead.

The first research paper from WashU's AI Humanities Lab, which I co-direct with Gabi Kirilloff, is available now in the Harvard Data Science Review! Read to learn more about how (badly) current LLMs are at replicating literary style: doi.org/10.1162/9960...

“Tahnk you for reaching put! I will be OOOO four the holiday brake and look forward too connection when I return!”

What an absolute pleasure it was to attend the 6th edition of CHR! Huge thanks to everyone who helped make this edition even better than the last #CHR2025 Onward to Manchester, home of some wonderful computing history: www.atlasobscura.com/articles/com...

Very happy to present the paper that @joeymccollum.bsky.social and I wrote on applying Bayesian phylogenetics to the medieval Dutch Martijn Trilogy at #CHR2025 :)

Presented my paper "The One and Only? Authorship Verification on Jan van Boendale and the Middle Dutch Antwerp School" on #CHR2025 and it won the ERC Best Long Paper Award! Delighted and grateful :) @comphumresearch.bsky.social

What do we reveal about ourselves when we talk to AI? 🤔💭 In our new WiAIR – Women in AI Research episode, we speak with Maria Antoniak about personal disclosures in human–LLM conversations — and what they mean for ethical AI development. (1/8🧵)

improving authorship attribution using phonetic features — fascinating work by Simon Gabay, @floriancafiero.bsky.social, and Jean-Luc Falcone at #CHR2025

@wenyishang.bsky.social and @emilyue.bsky.social built a remark-based classifier, checking the consistency between 6th century Chinese poetry criticism and “grades” assigned to classical Chinese poetry #CHR2025

the original masking objective, or: filling in the black d•t in EEBO-TCP transcriptions, presented at #CHR2025 by Kiara M.H. Liu, Martin Mueller and @mattwilkens.bsky.social

@jbarre.bsky.social, @oseminck.bsky.social, Antoine Bourgois, and @tpoibeau.bsky.social built a detective detector, tracing the different archetypes in French detective fiction #CHR2025

cool work at #CHR2025 by @julianeugarten.bsky.social on the sentiment trajectories in fanfiction! @comphumresearch.bsky.social

Excited to be in Luxembourg at CHR 2025 to hear about everyone’s amazing work and to share my project with @mellymeldubs.bsky.social and our team. We tracked canonical authors and texts in Seattle Public Library circulation data.

I made a feed for #CHR2025 @comphumresearch.bsky.social bsky.app/profile/did:...

Incredible keynote by @miguelev.bsky.social at @comphumresearch.bsky.social #CHR2025 on what he calls “exploratory finetuning”! Drawing on EDA, art, STS and DH to develop innovative ways to OCR right to left languages (ex Malaysian) and theorizing the method. Such exciting cutting edge work!

I just presented my podcast dataset at #CHR2025. Interested in analysing 412 days worth of podcast episodes? You can find the fully transcribed dataset here: zenodo.org/records/1746... 🎙️

I added a new post on my research blog last week. I wanted to react to a post from Dan Cohen that I've seen circulating on BlueSky last week about Gemini 3, and figured I would add my critical 2 cents to the mix! alix-tz.github.io/phd/posts/025/

📢 Deadline Extended! #DH2026 @dh2026daejeon.bsky.social proposal submissions now open until December 15, 2025 (KST). Please share! 🔂 📍 Daejeon, South Korea | July 27–31, 2026 🎯 Theme: "Engagement" Submit your long/short papers, posters, workshops & mini-conferences! 🔗 dh2026.adho.org/cfp

Read my🧵about our new #AIstories publication, by @annesigrid.bsky.social - read on for floating motifs, cannibalism and more! And honestly just to understand more about what actually characterises LLM-generated storytelling.

“The Software Paper fills a gap for the computational and digital humanities communities...” Thank you to research software engineer extraordinaire @suttonkoeser.bsky.social for leading this initiative for Computational Humanities Research journal. Please share!

Editors' Choice: New research shows everyone prefers human writers, including AI! – CDH@Princeton cdh.princeton.edu/news/2025/11...