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." Also on other topics.
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Lunchroom
I’ve been occupied with various tasks, to say nothing of my fixation on the repellent activities of my government, so I haven’t found time to post lately, and next week I’ll be traveling. Tut, tut, I have been remiss.
What I thought I’d do...
Life of Sorrentino
(The author at 19, in 1982, in New York City. He is not reading Raymond Queneau.)
[Note: I talked with Chad Post the other day for his podcast, Mining the Dalkey Archive, about using LLMs to create fiction. Check out our conversatio...
97 Questions for US Citizens, Residents, and Others
1. At what point does “call your representative” become a ritual rather than a remedy?
2. What does “qualified” mean in relation to high office if the decisive qualification is demonstrated loyalty to one man?
3. If “peace” is pursued...
Notes From the House Near the Border
This is the third installment of the series begun here and outlined here.
Like the last one, this prose piece turned out to be more complex than I’d anticipated. It also departs drastically from its sources, including the Sora-generated im...
Operation White Clam
Here’s the second in the series I began last week with this post. Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a “real” story, despite my initial instruction to ChatGPT to “[p]lease write a brief (ca. 500-750 words) passage extrapolating circumstances...
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