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Into the Funhouse Mirror | Anonymous A.I. Confessional
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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...
Into the Research Pipeline
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When people write about A.I. and universities, they’re usually talking about students: “What Happens After A.I. Destroys College Writing?” asked a headline in The New Yorker. “How A.I. Killed Student Writing (and Revived It),” declared one in The New York Times. “Members of the class of 2026 have had access to A.I. since they were freshmen,” announced an Atlantic header: “Almost all of them are using it to do their...
