The Hermeneutics of Computer-Generated Texts

As cultural circumstances become increasingly digital, the importance of theoretical frameworks guiding calculated considerations authorial intention and reader response is being reaffirmed. The framework proposed in this article that hermeneutics: study understanding, processes meaning-making. Although explicit application hermeneutics has fallen out fashion, field especially valuable for critically approaching digital texts. This thus serves as a reintroduction to hermeneutics, particularly textual study. It offers an overview historical hermeneutical views, then applies perspective new kind text made possible by technologies: computer-generated prose. Through analysis repurposing OpenAI's GPT-2 software, paper argues reintegration studies may contribute more comprehensive understandings both human computer intention, instances Digital technologies are changing conventional authorship responsibility; helps us understand what these changes are, how they have come be, why matter.