This is what struck me when I read the Granta "story." My mindset went from "that's an interesting turn of phrase/defamiliarization... that would be too if it wasn't right next to it... okay we're just piling them on now... oh my god could you just be concrete for a few sentences?"
Eric Notaro
The fact is, any one of those woo-woo lines in AI-prose would be acceptable *at some point* in a genuine story, but only if it was ballasted, and informed, and backed-up – if it was 'guaranteed' – by some specific concrete detailed real-stuff. Things, being instantiated and described and happening.
