TY - JOUR
T1 - ChatGPT, laMDA, and the hype around communicative AI
T2 - The automation of communication as a field of research in media and communication studies
AU - Hepp, Andreas
AU - Loosen, Wiebke
AU - Dreyer, Stephan
AU - Jarke, Juliane
AU - Kannengießer, Sigrid
AU - Katzenbach, Christian
AU - Malaka, Rainer
AU - Pfadenhauer, Michaela
AU - Puschmann, Cornelius
AU - Schulz, Wolfgang
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 Authors.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The aim of this article is to more precisely define the field of research on the automation of communication, which is still only vaguely discernible. The central thesis argues that to be able to fully grasp the transformation of the media environment associated with the automation of communication, our view must be broadened from a preoccupation with direct interactions between humans and machines to societal communication. This more widely targeted question asks how the dynamics of societal communication change when communicative artificial intelligence-in short: communicative AI-is integrated into aspects of societal communication. To this end, we recommend an approach that follows the tradition of figurational sociology.
AB - The aim of this article is to more precisely define the field of research on the automation of communication, which is still only vaguely discernible. The central thesis argues that to be able to fully grasp the transformation of the media environment associated with the automation of communication, our view must be broadened from a preoccupation with direct interactions between humans and machines to societal communication. This more widely targeted question asks how the dynamics of societal communication change when communicative artificial intelligence-in short: communicative AI-is integrated into aspects of societal communication. To this end, we recommend an approach that follows the tradition of figurational sociology.
KW - agency
KW - algorithms
KW - artificial intelligence
KW - automation of communication
KW - communication
KW - communicative AI
KW - figuration
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85165947580&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.30658/hmc.6.4
DO - 10.30658/hmc.6.4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85165947580
SN - 2638-602X
VL - 6
SP - 41
EP - 63
JO - Human-Machine Communication
JF - Human-Machine Communication
ER -