I Also Choose This Guy's Dead Wife:
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Not My Proudest Fap:
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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.
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-...
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...
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?
I bet a Jethro Tull cover band would rock the shit out of this Renaissance Faire.
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/
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Hollywood agencies are searching Reddit for short stories and ideas that could be turned into movies following the success of 'Backrooms'
(via THR)