On June 1st, I was thrilled to present at the Applied Rhetoric Symposium 2024, with a presentation called “Helpful Indeterminacy at Scale for the Public: Waterbot 1.0.” I got to talk about more of the rhetorical aspects of the bot this time, focusing on how we shaped and guided the language of the bot. Here’s the abstract:
Waterbot 1.0 is a ChatGPT-powered chatbot that delivers information about Arizona’s water situation to the public. Building this chatbot required considering how the indeterminate output of GPT clashed against the need for rhetorical sensitivity regarding the concerns of multiple stakeholders. This presentation will discuss the changes my team and l made to Waterbot’s output to produce more effective and sensitive rhetoric, as well as what these changes mean for the future of human-generated and machine-generated public rhetoric (Humans are necessary! Very necessary!).
Carradini, 2024
I love going to ARC, as I find it a thrilling set of folks who want to help do things out in the world with words. I can’t wait to present next time!