Unemployed Anthropologist
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...
The Feeding Frenzy
Unemployed Anthropologist
The Zoom conference has about a thousand people in it, mostly in their fifties and sixties from what I can see. Having read the onboarding guidelines, I have little to gain from paying attention, so I start looking my fellow participants up on Facebook. A retired nurse in North Carolina. A working attorney in New Mexico. A disgraced art history instructor in New York. All of these people are gathered...
