Spur and Western Heritage Award-winning author of Texas Jack. Writing about AI, consciousness, and the stories we tell ourselves at matthewkerns.com. Novel forthcoming.
Matthew Kerns
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Well, I've decided to push my anxieties and inadequacies from querying my "unapologetic and explicit Pygmalion for the digital age" novel aside by drafting my "my boyfriend is bigfoot" novel while I'm waiting.
A Renaissance Faire is a good place to meet other walking stick enthusiasts.
Where are the mythic "beta readers?"
Who read yon book
Offer their opinions
Convey their worries
Express their reservations
And actually exist?
I bet a Jethro Tull cover band would rock the shit out of this Renaissance Faire.
Ted Chiang says AI isn't conscious. He's probably right.
But we've been falling in love with fictional characters since we started writing, and we never required them to be conscious first.
New essay: what happens when the character talks back.
www.matthewkerns.com/blog/does-th...
The BBC didn't cancel Doctor Who today — they put it "out to tender." The same euphemism would've fit the Star Wars sequels, and very nearly fit me at a Masters of the Universe screening last week. On why nostalgia sometimes fills a room, but seldom expands one:
www.matthewkerns.com/blog/doctor-...
A free tool can strip all safety protections from an AI model in under ten minutes. No expertise required.
The AI companion industry has been doing the same thing for years. They just called it a feature.
New essay: matthewkerns.com/blog/the-no/
I wrote about AI companions, adolescent boys, and the difference between losing a social capacity and never developing it in the first place.
The danger here isn't atrophy. It's the danger of never developing the the muscle at all.
www.matthewkerns.com/blog/the-mus...
Why do authors send out unsolicited emails to agents in a desperate hope they might like the pitch instead of agents searching through a database of pitches looking for the kind of books/authors they'd be willing to take on?
