Abstract
Rhetoric is a trace retained in and by artificial intelligence (AI) technologies. This concept illuminates how rhetoric and AI have faced issues related to information abundance, entrenched social inequalities, discriminatory biases, and the reproduction of repressive ideologies. Drawing on their shared root terminology (stochastic/artifice), common logic (zero-agency), and similar forms of organization (trope+algorithm), this essay urges readers to consider the etymological, ontological, and formal dimensions of rhetoric as inherent features of contemporary AI.
| Original language | English (US) |
|---|---|
| Pages (from-to) | 232-246 |
| Number of pages | 15 |
| Journal | Rhetoric Society Quarterly |
| Volume | 54 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2024 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2024 The Author(s). Published with license by Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.
Keywords
- Agency
- artificial intelligence
- deconstruction
- rhetorical history
- trope
