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There’s a new invite on my calendar for a team meeting. The embedded A.I. that I neither asked for nor can delete says I have no conflicts, though it also lobs potential replies that display a conspicuous deference and enthusiasm. During the meeting, my editor says usage of the in-house A.I.-powered editorial tool will now be factored into reporters’ performance reviews. Against the backdrop of doomerist narratives, the tool itself...
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...
