PhD Student in History
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...
Cheating Scaled Up
PhD Student in History
Like many other academics, I’m a bit romantic about the idea of learning at the same time that I nurse a cynicism about educational institutions. The question of cheating, to my mind, has always been a marginal one — if students cheat, that’s their choice, just as it’s my choice to detect it and fail them, ça va? Of course, that was before cheating scaled up, before my employer rolled out our...
