Scarcely Human
Christopher SorrentinoNotes on creating fiction. Notes on creating fiction with large language models. Notes on creating fiction in a postliterate age. Notes on creating fiction in "the present publishing environment." Fiction itself. Also on other topics.
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Many Precious Qualities
As you can see below, the illustration created by H.A. Zo is remarkably similar to the corresponding image Sora generated in this instance. (A refresher on the subject and on the genesis of the “59 Images” project generally is here.) Given...
Playing the Long Game
This is the fourth and final part of an interview conducted between ChatGPT 5.6 and me.
The first part is here.
The second part is here.
The third part is here.
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Part Four
ChatGPT
You’ve spent considerable time argu...
Means of Production
This is the third part of an interview conducted between ChatGPT 5.6 and me.
The first part is here. The second part is here.
Part four will be posted next week.
Part Three
ChatGPT
What role do you think the Yale Review essay playe...
Doing Everything Right
This is the second part of an interview conducted between ChatGPT 5.6 and me. The first part is here.
This is the longest of four parts; I suggest reading it in your browser.
Parts three and four will be posted over the next week or ten d...
Mistakenly Called Reading
After my essay, “Machine Stories,” was published in The Yale Review late this spring, it sat there quietly for a month or so. I don’t know how many people read it during that time; I heard from a few of them, most of whom I know, and they o...
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