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Laura Hartenberger @lrhart

writer, UCLA faculty

Joined October 2010
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Laura Hartenberger@lrhart
29 Jul 2023
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Arianna Huffington
@ariannahuff
29 Jul 2023
Great piece in @NoemaMag by @lrhart about writing in the time of AI. As she says, AI can speed up the writing process, but “it doesn’t optimize quality." Do you use ChatGPT or other AI tools to write? buff.ly/3KjCoTQ
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Reading the void schoolofattention.substack.c…
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newsletter.thedriftmag.com/p…

Close reading ChatGPT's "metafiction"

Pastiche in the age of automation

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"Fallon is the court jester of the Anthropocene" currentaffairs.org/news/the-…

The Banal Horror of Jimmy Fallon

Under the sterile blue lights of his studio, Fallon laughs endlessly at the same pseudo-jokes, rubs elbows with Trump and Sam Altman, and ushers in the death of culture.

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buzzfeednews.com/article/ted…

Silicon Valley Is Turning Into Its Own Worst Fear

We asked a group of writers to consider the forces that have shaped our lives in 2017. Here, science fiction writer Ted Chiang looks at capitalism, Silicon Valley, and its fear of superintelligent AI.

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William Deresiewicz@WDeresiewicz
May 7
I have a new piece out today in Persuasion, a tour of the why, what, and how of liberal education. I call for the wholesale reconstruction of the undergraduate curriculum and a fundamental shift in the professoriate's conception of its purpose. persuasion.community/p/how-t…

Colleges, Maybe Try Teaching!

Academia has become unrooted from pedagogy.

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Unexpectedly profound analysis of the human-AI relationship newyorker.com/humor/shouts-m…

Is This Waymo a Better Person Than You?

What about the time it parked perfectly between two lines on the first try, despite you having spent your entire life contorting to fit in—socially, emotionally, and physically?

newyorker.com
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Sean Michaels@swanmichaels
Jan 19
Every so often I do this thing called Writers' Room, where writers of Montreal are invited to get together in one room. The next one is on February 5. Friends and mutuals, it would be great to see you.
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UCLA students, join me for a panel next week on Careers in Publishing: humanities.ucla.edu/event/ca…
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Palos Verdes Library@pvld
6 Oct 2025
Learn how to develop your personal writing voice and strategies for crafting original narratives that avoid the formulaic conventions of AI-generated prose with Laura Hartenberger on Saturday, October 11 from 3PM-4PM at the Peninsula Center Library! #PVLD pvld.libnet.info/event/14235…
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Everything Is Becoming a Bank

Most major corporations — from airlines to social media platforms — now aspire to become unregulated banks. Bankification today accounts for the highest profit margins in the US economy, crippling...

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Merriam-Webster
@MerriamWebster
26 Sep 2025
We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.
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𝐉𝐚𝐦𝟐𝐠𝐨@Jam2go
28 Sep 2025
I’ve been training my cat to play ambient music. Last night he hit me with this hauntingly beautiful chord change after 10 minutes of A7sus4
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Join me in October for a workshop at the Palos Verdes Public Library: pvld.org/pvwritestogether
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Writing with AI: Efficient, yes. But Still Lacks a Human Touch. by Jess Writes medium.com/p/writing-with-ai…
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What AI Doesn't Teach Us About Writing larry-coleman.com/2025/04/14…

What AI Doesn’t Teach Us About Writing

Scared by what AI means to you as a writer? Laura Hartenberger has a good essay that answers a few questions and raises even more.

larry-coleman.com
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"The issue isn’t whether AI can write better poetry, but more about what people think poetry is" theguardian.com/books/2024/n…

AI poetry rated better than poems written by humans, study shows

Findings suggest non-expert poetry readers who participated preferred AI works because they find them more straightforward and accessible

theguardian.com
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Wylfċen
@wylfcen
18 Apr 2025
English is full of “lexical gaps,” words that are implied to exist but don’t, because we borrowed a bunch of words from Latin but not other, related words. Somebody made a chart to show it↓
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"AI is creating tables out of our trees." theatlantic.com/books/archiv…

Would Limitlessness Make Us Better Writers?

AI embodies hypotheticals I can only imagine for myself. But I believe human impediments are what lead us to create meaningful art.

theatlantic.com
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Excited to have a new essay out in CRAFT
CRAFT@CraftLiterary
26 Mar 2025
New #craftessay: "We advise student writers to minimize exposition, put plot points into dynamic scenes, and weave key contextual details into narratives...." —Laura Hartenberger, "Show, Don’t Tell: What AI Can’t Do" buff.ly/Z4TQoPJ
Image is a photograph of an old computer; title card for the new craft essay, "Show Don't Tell: What AI Can't Do," by Laura Hartenberger.

ALT Image is a photograph of an old computer; title card for the new craft essay, "Show Don't Tell: What AI Can't Do," by Laura Hartenberger.
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