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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

It is argued that this metaphor-based text generation leads to what John Gallagher calls orbital argumentation, where the generated text is pulled towards key concepts that remain unnarratable as the text skims their surface, orbiting around them instead of directly addressing them.

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

The analyses and case studies range from a journalist’s unsettling chatbot experiment to cases where users have experienced delusions or even killed themselves after lengthy interactions with a chatbot, and conclude with the discussion of LLMs as a genre of narrative media which requires a new type of literacy.

Hanna-Riikka Roine, Anne Sigrid Refsum, Jill Walker Rettberg · Narrative Inquiry · 2 citations