Ivy League Literature Professor
Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
Former Marketer at a Product Management Firm, Hollywood Screenwriter, Ivy League Literature Professor, Ivy League Postdoc, Literary Agent, Magazine Editor and Writer, New York Times Best-selling Author, News Reporter, PhD Student in History, Prominent Novelist, Psychiatry Fellow, Software Engineer at a Big Five Tech company, Unemployed Anthropologist, Union Organizer
At a May event in Poland, the novelist Olga Tokarczuk revealed that she had asked an A.I. chatbot to suggest songs the protagonists of her latest novel might have heard at a dance set decades ago. And her queries weren’t limited to questions of historical fact: “Often I just ask the machine, ‘Darling, how could we develop this beautifully?’” she continued. “In literary fiction this technology is an advantage of...
An Automatized Path
Ivy League Literature Professor
A Haircut Story. Only An Inch. Must It All Go? Titles like these began to populate my Amazon suggestions. Mostly self-published, with covers that featured lusciously long, supernaturally straight women’s hair. Just the hair, streaming down the length of the cover. No faces showing. I could not figure out what algorithm I had triggered, or how, until, a few weeks later, I looked at my eleven-year-old daughter’s search history and...
