Dataset : Software
Writing Anima: a philosophical writing counterpart
- Documentation:
- HAI Lab’s Writing Anima is an open-source, decentralised intelligent writing editor that gives perspectival, philosophical criticism on a piece of writing. The backbone of the tool is a concept we call an “Anima”, which is an “animation” (in the literal sense of “anima” as “soul”) of a particular text or set of texts. Texts (for example, departmental reading lists, tutor recommendations, personal notes or research journals) can be uploaded, and are transformed into an interlocutor that simulates the author of those texts. This interlocutor can be treated as a conversational partner, or as a critical writing assistant. A set of comments on written work can be requested, with a user experience alike MS Word or Google Docs. The user can then iterate their writing in a slow feedback loop, as if a philosopher of the past or present was their personal tutor. The tool is a standalone application and can work with cloud inference infrastructure or, if downloaded onto a machine with sufficient resources, can be used with locally running models of choice (even SOTA models like Deepseek on the right hardware).
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(Preview, Not applicable (or unknown), pdf, 123.2KB, Terms of use)
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- Publication website:
- https://github.com/Oxford-HAI-Lab/writing-anima
Authors/Creators
- Publisher:
- University of Oxford
- Publication date:
- 2026
- Language:
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English
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Software
- Pubs id:
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2421380
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pubs:2421380
- Deposit date:
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2026-05-19
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Terms of use
- Copyright date:
- 2026
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