In September of 2020, I started working more regularly at my local library, and not exactly on purpose. It was a tumultuous time: the world was reeling from COVID-related chaos, illness, and death, and our country was beginning to reckon, finally, with racially motivated murders by police. In the midst of this, I had my […]
“It’s not cheating because no one else wrote it,” one of my ninth-grade students told me last May. He had used ChatGPT, the AI writing tool, to compose his final essay for our freshman English class. When I explained he’d plagiarized because the words didn’t convey his own ideas, he shrugged. “But a robot can […]
Carl Larsson’s Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf in the forest via Wikimedia Commons This is one of those stories that begins with a female body,” opens Erica Berry’s evocative exploration of wolves, fear, and the female experience, Wolfish: Wolf, Self, and the Stories We Tell About Fear . Though the body Berry speaks […]
It’s been quite a year for ChatGPT, with the large language model (LLM) now taking exams, churning out content , searching the web, writing code, and more. The AI chatbot can produce its own stories , though whether they’re any good is another matter. If you’re in any way involved in the business of writing, […]
It’s been quite a year for ChatGPT, with the large language model (LLM) now taking exams, churning out content , searching the web, writing code, and more. The AI chatbot can produce its own stories , though whether they’re any good is another matter. If you’re in any way involved in the business of writing, […]
Do you know someone who loves to play video games? Have you ever wondered why we, as humans, are so drawn to them? Perhaps it’s the vivid worlds and characters they create that make us feel like a part of something special. Video games have come a long way since their inception and can be […]
Author Natalie Beach poses for a portrait in Los Angeles on Friday, June 23, 2023, to promote her book “Adult Drama: And Other Essays.” (AP Photo/Richard Vogel) By LESLIE AMBRIZ (Associated Press) LOS ANGELES (AP) — Natalie Beach i s “not bothered” by the constant correlation of her name with her former best friend, Caroline […]
Key points When you prompt ChatGPT to write stories and make arguments, it performs just about as well as you can. Algorithms behind ChatGPT do one thing above all—predict the next most probable words worth saying. If you want to outperform ChatGPT when your write, exercise specific human strengths that AI can’t duplicate. If you […]
He spent his career exploring will and deceit. Then came a sudden success: a bluntly titled book that found that one strain of dishonesty with a barnyard name was worse than lying. Harry G. Frankfurt in 2005, the year his book on a certain kind of dishonesty became a best seller. He made his name […]
My favorite writing, to read and to make, is about the abjection of desire. In books, I want sex that’s needy, greedy, lonely, pathetically succumbent to the allness of nothingness, sad, icky, and bad. I want all the ways that fucking can be fucked up. Many standards of this sort—Kathy Acker, Samuel R. Delaney, Mary […]
