Neha Saini
Doctoral research fellow at the University of Oslo
Neha holds a BA Honours and MA by research degree from the National University of Singapore (NUS) in English Literature. Her BA and MA research focused on the socio-cultural politics of the apartheid era through the literary works of Black South African women writers. She worked for a year in the tech industry, training GenAI models, and now combines her interests in her ongoing research in how AI, specifically Large Language Models (LLMs) shape the political visibility of marginalised communities through creative expression.
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This PhD investigates whether generative AI can authentically represent the political subjectivity of marginalised communities. While Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly used in creative and political expression, they are shaped by training data that often centre Western, normative perspectives. Through a mixed-methods approach, the project explores how AI-generated creative outputs are produced and perceived. It combines systematic reviews, interviews with minority artists, prompting experiments with diverse personas, and audience reception studies. By examining the role of GenAI as both a collaborator and a potential site of representational harm, the project addresses questions of authenticity and visibility. Ultimately, it seeks to contribute to debates on representational justice, digital democracy, and the politics of AI-mediated creativity.
“By examining the role of GenAI as both a collaborator and a potential site of representational harm, the project addresses questions of authenticity and visibility”
— Neha Saini on her research project “AI Narratives: Can LLM-Generated Content Represent the Political Subjectivity of Minorities?”