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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Secretary of War
Since this post was written with very little AI assistance, and this was written very much in collaboration with AI but ended up including barely any AI-generated content, I thought I’d continue the informal tour with a piece in which AI ma...
Near the Clearing
Last time I mostly avoided the use of LLMs, opting instead to emphasize an old-fashioned recombinatory treatment of appropriated text. This time, I decided to see if I could rely on GPT-2, via the two transformer-based generation scripts I’...
The Ecstatic Vision of Geophph DeLake
This one was composed mainly using a low-tech, simple, but laborious approach. I went online and located about half a dozen author interviews, which I copied and pasted to a Word document. I stripped them of the interviewers’ questions and...
The Whitest Place on Earth, II
I’ll straightaway mention a slip in this piece: the vernacular voice that dominates the first part of “The Whitest Place on Earth” is almost an afterthought in this second part. Part of this has to do with the more elevated register I thoug...
The Whitest Place on Earth, I
Some of these renderings immediately suggest the story that they might accompany, some don’t, and others suggest a story, but not one that I’m at all interested in writing. It so happens that when I had Sora generate these images, the eight...
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