• A practical implication of the Astolfo Effect: bias in AI generated images 

      Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe; Soares, Henrique M.; Tomotani, João V. (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2023)
      The year of 2022 saw a huge advance in AI technology, especially Large Language Models, or LLMs. This culminated in the release of Chat GPT, an AI Chatbot assistant that, as of the time of this writing, is wowing the public with its uncanny performance.<p> <p>However, chatbots are not the only application of LLMs. One such application is the artificial generation of images. Although such idea is ...
    • Testing the Astolfo Effect on newly-released servants in Fate/Grand Order 

      Tomotani, João V.; Salvador, Rodrigo Brincalepe (Journal article; Tidsskriftartikkel; Peer reviewed, 2022)
      Back in 2021, we wrote an article defining the Astolfo Effect. That is what happens when a pop culture representation of a character (fictional or otherwise) becomes more popular than the original. We named it after Astolfo, one of Charlemagne’s paladins and arguably an obscure character in the works that make up the Matter of France and in later literature related to it (such as Orlando ...