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3study the impacts of generative AI on creativity and humanistic knowledge </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Sep 18, 2025</th> <td> CIL directors Hoyt and Richard present recent work on cultural agents at the <a href="https://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/english/publications/mfs/conference-on-ai.html" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Conference on Artificial Intelligence</a>, Purdue University </td> </tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="width: 20%">Sep 15, 2025</th> <td> Cultural Intelligence Lab website goes live! </td> </tr> </table> </div> </div> <h2> <a href="/publications/" style="color: inherit">selected publications</a> </h2> <div class="publications"> <ol class="bibliography"> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> <abbr class="badge rounded w-100">CulturalAI</abbr> </div> <div id="sui2026spoileralertnarrativeforecasting" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Spoiler Alert: Narrative Forecasting as a Metric for Tension in LLM Storytelling</div> <div class="author"> Peiqi Sui, Yutong Zhu, Tianyi Cheng, Peter West, <em>Richard Jean So</em>, <em>Hoyt Long</em>, and Ari Holtzman </div> <div class="periodical"> <em>arXiv</em>, 2026 </div> <div class="periodical"> </div> <div class="links"> <a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2604.09854" class="btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HTML</a> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> <abbr class="badge rounded w-100">CulturalAI</abbr> </div> <div id="kommers2025whyslop" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Why Slop Matters</div> <div class="author"> Cody Kommers, Eamon Duede, Julia Gordon, Ari Holtzman, Tess McNulty, Spencer Stewart, Lindsey Thomas, <em>Hoyt Long</em>, and <em>Richard Jean So</em> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em>ACM AI Letters</em>, 2025 </div> <div class="periodical"> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="bibtex btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button">Bib</a> <a href="https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3786777" class="btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HTML</a> </div> <div class="bibtex hidden"> <figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bibtex" data-lang="bibtex"><span class="nc">@article</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nl">kommers2025whyslop</span><span class="p">,</span>
4  <span class="na">author</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Kommers, Cody and Duede, Eamon and Gordon, Julia and Holtzman, Ari and McNulty, Tess and Stewart, Spencer and Thomas, Lindsey and L

4ong, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean}</span><span class="p">,</span>
5  <span class="na">title</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Why Slop Matters}</span><span class="p">,</span>
6  <span class="na">journal</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{ACM AI Letters}</span><span class="p">,</span>
7  <span class="na">year</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{2025}</span><span class="p">,</span>
8<span class="p">}</span></code></pre></figure> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> <abbr class="badge rounded w-100">CulturalAI</abbr> </div> <div id="cui2025criticalconfab" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Critical Confabulation: Can LLM’s Hallucinate for Social Good?</div> <div class="author"> Peiqi Sui, Eamon Duede, <em>Hoyt Long</em>, and <em>Richard Jean So</em> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em>ICLR</em>, 2026 </div> <div class="periodical"> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="bibtex btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button">Bib</a> <a href="https://www.arxiv.org/abs/2511.07722" class="btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HTML</a> </div> <div class="bibtex hidden"> <figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bibtex" data-lang="bibtex"><span class="nc">@article</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nl">cui2025criticalconfab</span><span class="p">,</span>
9  <span class="na">author</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Sui, Peiqi and Duede, Eamon and Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean}</span><span class="p">,</span>
10  <span class="na">title</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Critical Confabulation: Can LLM's Hallucinate for Social Good?}</span><span class="p">,</span>
11  <span class="na">journal</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{ICLR}</span><span class="p">,</span>
12  <span class="na">year</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{2026}</span><span class="p">,</span>
13  <span class="na">url</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.07722}</span><span class="p">,</span>
14<span class="p">}</span></code></pre></figure> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> <abbr class="badge rounded w-100">CulturalAI</abbr> </div> <div id="roland2025socialaiauthor" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">The Social AI Author: Modeling Creativity and Distinction in Simulated Cultural Fields</div> <div class="author"> Teddy Roland, <em>Richard Jean So</em>, and <em>Hoyt Long</em> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em>AI &amp; Society</em>, 2025 </div> <div class="periodical"> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="bibtex btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button">Bib</a> <a href="https://rdcu.be/eTkMy" class="btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button" rel="external nofollow noopener" target="_blank">HTML</a> </div> <div class="bibtex hidden"> <figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bibtex" data-lang="bibtex"><span class="nc">@article</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nl">roland2025socialaiauthor</span><span class="p">,</span>
15  <span class="na">title</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{The Social AI Author: Modeling Creativity and Distinction in Simulated Cultural Fields}</span><span class="p">,</span>
16  <span class="na">author</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Roland, Teddy and So, Richard Jean and Long, Hoyt}</span><span class="p">,</span>
17  <span class="na">year</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{2025}</span><span class="p">,</span>
18  <span class="na">journal</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{AI &amp; Society}</span><span class="p">,</span>
19<span class="p">}</span></code></pre></figure> </div> </div> </div> </li> <li> <div class="row"> <div class="col col-sm-2 abbr"> <abbr class="badge rounded w-100">CulturalAI</abbr> </div> <div id="longso2025inequality" class="col-sm-8"> <div class="title">Generative AI and the Technical Reproduction of Cultural Inequality</div> <div class="author"> <em>Hoyt Long</em> and <em>Richard Jean So</em> </div> <div class="periodical"> <em>Under review</em>, 2025 </div> <div class="periodical"> </div> <div class="links"> <a class="bibtex btn btn-sm z-depth-0" role="button">Bib</a> </div> <div class="bibtex hidden"> <figure class="highlight"><pre><code class="language-bibtex" data-lang="bibtex"><span class="nc">@article</span><span class="p">{</span><span class="nl">longso2025inequality</span><span class="p">,</span>
20  <span class="na">title</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Generative AI and the Technical Reproduction of Cultural Inequality}</span><span class="p">,</span>
21  <span class="na">author</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Long, Hoyt and So, Richard Jean}</span><span class="p">,</span>
22  <span class="na">year</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{2025}</span><span class="p">,</span>
23  <span class="na">

23journal</span> <span class="p">=</span> <span class="s">{Under review}</span><span class="p">,</span>
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