Presented as a lightning talk at the Digital Humanities Summer Institute (DHSI) (4 June 2019). Serves as a tl;dr version of doctoral research project. The question mark on the final slide replaces the 'woman shrugging' emoji.

1. Who is the author of the
computer-generated text?
Leah Henrickson
Loughborough University
l.r.henrickson@lboro.ac.uk
twitter.com/leahhenrickson
Image: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/18/technology/ai-is-beginning-to-assist-novelists.html
4 June 2019

2. twitter.com/leahhenrickson

3. Authorship is an identity,
with particular connotations,
engaging in particular activities
that result in particular outputs.
twitter.com/leahhenrickson

4. Option Number of
Participants
It is not possible to
assign authorship
143 (28.6%)
Valtteri 179 (35.8%)
John Smith 7 (1.4%)
Immersive Automation 90 (18%)
Those who fund
Immersive Automation
9 (1.8%)
Other 72 (14.4%)twitter.com/leahhenrickson

5. twitter.com/leahhenrickson

6. The hermeneutic contract
refers to the (imagined)
relationship between
reader and author.
twitter.com/leahhenrickson

7. Leah Henrickson
Loughborough University
l.r.henrickson@lboro.ac.uk
twitter.com/leahhenrickson
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