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21 February 2025
21 February:
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New World Literature Today | Translating Dazai Osamu
LLMs tracking societal bias
New World Literature Today
The March-April issue of World Literature Today is now out.
As always, a lot of good material -- including the extensive book review section.
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Translating Dazai Osamu
At Counter Craft Lincoln Michel has a Q & A with the translator, in 'On translating comedy, men as erratic and emotional creatures, and "the original bad boy of modern Japanese fiction"', in Processing: How Sam Bett Translated Osamu Dazai.
Bett's translation of Dazai's The Beggar Student is just out -- see the New Directions publicity page --; the only Dazai under review at the complete review is A Shameful Life.
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LLMs tracking societal bias
In New Scientist Matthew Sparkes reports on how AI trained on novels tracks how racist and sexist biases have evolved (paywalled) -- reporting on the recent paper Fine-Tuned LLMs are “Time Capsules” for Tracking Societal Bias Through Books (warning ! dreaded pdf format ! there's also an version) by Sangmitra Madhusudan, Robert Morabito, Skye Reid, Nikta Gohari Sadr, and Ali Emami
Hardly surprising, but interesting nevertheless.
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